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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? Many thrived as a result of it.

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Enabling Growth: Solving New Product Challenges with CPQ

Cincom Smart Selling

Successful sales people have always known that being successful in their job requires them to continually learn about the markets they serve, the products offered, the pricing and selling issues related to the product as it grows and changes over the years. What markets are involved? The New Product Challenge.

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What is Your Company’s DNA?

Sales and Marketing Management

Not chemical, biological DNA, of course, but what I call corporate DNA. What does that DNA mean for positioning a company to win in the market? The key to maximizing competitive advantage is to pinpoint that DNA and use it to your advantage; that is, to position your company in the market so that you can win.

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The Pipeline ? Beware The Mixed Message ? Sales eXchange ? 138

The Pipeline

Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Communication Strategy , Marketing , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Management , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Nice glossy presentation, containing nothing of interest to me; and given the chemical content of the glossy pages, I couldn’t even use it to wrap fish.

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