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Advice to Steve, a Down-and-Almost-Out Sales Manager: Telemarket Old Leads First!

Pointclear

We’re in the hurt locker, we’re down, and I have no money to try to boost sales in the last quarter. With a pleading voice and a frown his mother would not be proud of, this was one concerned sales manager. How many sales inquiries did Marketing give you, on average, per month for the last year?” What am I gonna do?”

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Is Lead Flow to the Reps Too Slow or Gridlocked?

Pointclear

You are: Delaying talking to buyers and reducing your chances of making the sale by 50%, because salespeople, on average, aren’t getting the leads until weeks after they’re created. Filtering out real buyers. The sales department was not making its numbers and everyone was frustrated. This cost the company $1.2

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Sales Performance and the Enhanced Buyer Experience

Cincom Smart Selling

The buyer is now in charge. Sales Performance in the Buyer-Driven Market. It is a buyer’s world, and the first step in boosting sales performance in this world is making sure that marketing managers, sales managers and sales personnel understand this fact. The buyer is in charge.

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Sales Performance and the Enhanced Buyer Experience

Cincom Smart Selling

The buyer is now in charge. Sales Performance in the Buyer-Driven Market. It is a buyer’s world, and the first step in boosting sales performance in this world is making sure that marketing managers, sales managers and sales personnel understand this fact. The buyer is in charge.

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How to Fix a Sales Forecast Killer

Pointclear

Territory turnover for this new sales manager isn’t unusual, but the solution can be evasive, expensive and humbling. Experienced sales managers, however, know how to deal with it. He had 10 sales territories in his domestic North American sales force. So, What’s a Sales Manager to Do?

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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

Today though, our buyers know more than us in many cases, and they now come to the table holding the cards. Risk aversion, political correctness and the fear of ‘being bought’ has driven a component of the changing behaviour of the buyer, making selling so much more complex. Terms of purchase have changed.

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B2B Selling—It’s Personal

Pipeliner

This is an untruth that generally holds businesses back from making a connection to the business buyer on a personal level. It is even more so than B2C buying, simply because of the inflated personal risk experienced by B2B buyers. In considering the functional benefits of the purchase, corporate buyers examine use logic and reason.

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