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Sales middle managers – what motivates them the most?

Sales Training Connection

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.”. These middle managers reported at least two levels of management between them and the highest executive in their company.

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Remote Selling Viewpoints with Hans Fuller of @StorySlab

SBI

Q: What are your customers doing to adapt to - or leverage - the trend towards distributed sales teams and remote selling? Many StorySlab customers rely heavily on outside sales and suddenly had to adapt to a remote selling world. That has all been upended now. That has all been upended now. Removing friction and awkwardness is key.

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The ultimate guide to solution selling

PandaDoc

Solution selling implies that the salesperson focuses not on technical characteristics, but on how a product or service will alleviate the customer’s pain or allow them to exploit an opportunity: This software development kit will allow you to save up to 50% of development time and decrease the amount of money you risk. Long-term efficiency.

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The Lost Art of Selling

Platinum Rules for Success

In this week’s story on Platinum Rules for Success, Rick addresses this issue, by sharing recommendations for sales managers who want to recapture the lost art of selling and improve their team’s performance. At its zenith, Xerox put new hires through months of sales training before they ever called on a customer.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

In the Sales Hacker video series Aha Moments , I asked 10 women: “What is one ‘aha moment’ you’ve had in your sales career?”. The conversations that followed were so authentic and encouraging that we decided to expand this conversation to other badass women in the sales world. Time to take notes.

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Lessons in Sales Leadership with Alice Heiman

Mindtickle

Now, when I first left Miller Heiman, I still had a lot of my big clients; Fidelity Investments, Dow Chemical, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, some real giants. It might not even be a salesperson that they want to have a conversation with. Could be a sales engineer, could be customer success, could be somebody else. Remember those?