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What is wrong with the Hunter / Farmer Metaphor?

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

If a Framer is primarily seen Harvester, then indeed it is probably not a good analogy for what an account manager does. Before a Farmer can harvest, planning the use of the land best suited to the quality of the soil, according fertilizing and sowing the right crop are prerequisites for success.

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Do Your Best Sales Detective Work On Prospects

Pipeliner

Are you looking through SlideShares and PDFs in a Google search to see if there are email contacts at the end of the presentation that you can harvest? You definitely should be experimenting with all of this for your vertical / territory. Channel your inner Bill! Adding prospects on Facebook is risky.

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Episode #081: Keep It Simple in Sales with Andy Paul

Jeff Shore

I’ve worked with nearly every channel ranging from franchise networks to retailers, dealers, distributors, VAR and OEMs. I’ve helped boost the performance of teams selling products and services as diverse as complex multi-million dollar communications networks to collectible professional sports memorabilia.