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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. As a trained problem solver, I had to learn more.

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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. Q: What is the impact on organizations that adopt virtual training? That has all been upended now.

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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. Westinghouse didn’t have time to train engineers.

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

The Pipeline

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Beware The Mixed Message – Sales eXchange – 138. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , Communication Strategy , Marketing , Proactive , Sales 2.0 , Sales Management , Sales Success , Sales eXchange , execution. Funnel management.

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Who was your sales mentor, and what was their greatest lesson?

Nutshell

The Sell to Win Playbook collects 55 of the best expert sales tips we’ve ever published. Steven Benson , Founder and CEO of Badger Maps : My first Sales Manager at Google, Mark Flessel , was a mentor to me. These feelings were the underpinnings for my foray into sales. Download it today! GET THE PLAYBOOK. Selling is hard.

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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. Too often, customers become immune to the wiles of marketing and promotion. The Lost Art of Selling.