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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

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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The Importance Of Establishing A Cadence

Partners in Excellence

” A system, whether it’s a physical process, chemical process, is in balance with the right flow. In the financial markets, there are rhythms that drive the market–sometimes these are very complex, but in the world of “quants” they discover these rhythms and what causes disruption in the rhythms.

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Sensemaking: Selling To Customers In The “Simple Quadrant”

Partners in Excellence

” Depending on the market/application maturity, the business may have started as very complex, as patterns start to emerge, and people’s experience gets deeper, the business may mature and move to the complicated space. One of my clients sold basic chemicals. Many very mature businesses may have become “simple.”

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Channel Visibility Reveals Unique Sales Workflows in Multi-Channel Organizations

Cincom Smart Selling

Discerning the nature of those requirements requires visibility into the individual sales channels. Different sales partners typically address different market segments. You rely on a number of distribution channel partners to address these different markets. The sales presentation takes place, and an order is entered.

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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. Hans Fuller Founder & CEO, StorySlab.

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

LeveragePoint

For our October Webinar, Steve Laborda shared actionable steps for achieving commercial success by translating existing Value Pricing strategies into sales and marketing. What is a good example of an “ammunition package” for sales?”. It might be key account managers as well. In this blog post, we share his live answers.