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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Maria Boulden/Gartner

Partners in Excellence

Here’s Maria: “I graduated with a degree in chemical engineering with a chemistry minor. And I started my career with a chemical company doing the things you would expect a chemical engineer to do…research, development, manufacturing, operations and beyond. How is that relevant?

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Sales middle managers – what motivates them the most?

Sales Training Connection

Sales Middle Managers. Middle managers are the key to implementing C-Suite strategic initiatives. In 2011, Wharton’s Ethan Mollick shared that mid-level managers could have greater impact on company performance than almost anyone else in an organization, yet they are “often overlooked and sometimes maligned.”.

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How to Reduce Stress in the Sales Workplace

Xactly

In demanding circumstances, stress acts as our bodies’ physical fight or flight response, where the body releases the chemicals to help us decide how to act. In the workplace, stress is an important thing for managers to watch for. Sales, in particular, can be a demanding job with long hours, drawn-out sales cycles, and high quotas.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Remote Selling has become an important focus for every sales organization. Digital sales technologies, by default, are what enables remote selling. In this interview series, we ask executives at leading salestech companies to describe how their customers are leveraging technology, what metrics are now possible, and more. .

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The ultimate guide to solution selling

PandaDoc

The typical process usually goes like this: Find prospects whose problems align with the solution that the company is selling. The fastest-growing companies get 40% more revenue out of it than their slower counterparts. Finding the issues common to many or most companies in the industry is a good start. Simplification.

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Channel Visibility Reveals Unique Sales Workflows in Multi-Channel Organizations

Cincom Smart Selling

Your systems handle everything from packages prepared for logistical companies like FedEx or USPS Priority Mail to in-plant part and assembly movement within a production facility. This selling partner addresses an entirely different market; their customers use industrial chemicals and gasses.

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Make Your Value Pricing Count: Get Value Selling into the DNA of Your Organization Q&A

LeveragePoint

Some companies are starting with Excel, which is very painful. Do you often see companies that claim to sell on value, but really fall back on selling on price or performance? But unfortunately that still happens a lot – companies using not as a way to increase prices, but to justify internally why they should decrease prices.