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Is This an Example of Succeeding or Failing at Inside Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday I was in the office, preparing for the today''s formal introduction of Objective Management Group''s (OMG) award-winning, new and improved, fourth generation, Sales Candidate Assessment ( View the 25-minute Webinar here ) when the phone rang and I answered.

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How to Grow Your Referral Network

No More Cold Calling

When internet leads and a call script no longer reap new business. There’s a lot of great sales technology out there, and it would be dumb for sales reps not to use it. But sales technology doesn’t close business. A young Chris Fralic is selling software for Oracle. Don’t get me wrong. Fall 1996.

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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

I interviewed sales manager, sales person, sales trainer and all around smart guy Jorge Soto. I asked Jorge about how he uses Sales 2.0 Jorge, I know you are a fan of Sales 2.0 We were executing a standard cold calling routine based on a list until Jason showed me the power of Linkedin. Are Sales 2.0

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How Social Sellers Build Their Pipeline with LinkedIn

SBI Growth

He’s a sales rep at Oracle. They’re missing the real value of the platform: it’s a sales tool. Cold calling is ineffective because no one answers their phone. Instead, today’s successful Sales Reps excel with LinkedIn on several fronts: They position themselves to win the deal they’re working on now.

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100 Most Prospected-to Companies of 2018

DiscoverOrg Sales

You might recognize the most-prospected-to companies of 2018, according to DiscoverOrg’s database, as household names – but that’s not why savvy sales and marketing professionals have been pitching to them. When you understand the types of events that precede spending, you can look for them in the future. FinancialServices.

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Social Selling: What the Sales Pros Do Differently

No More Cold Calling

Any sales professional who says it’s easy to keep up communication on social networks is either lying or doing it incorrectly. Your marketing department can help by providing relevant content to the sales team. But sales reps have work to do as well. Are Your Sales Reps Too Social to Socialize? Well, sales is not a party.

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Why Are 75% of Salespeople Ineffective?

No More Cold Calling

How many of us studied sales in college? But most sales reps enter the field without any formal training. Some of us get lucky and thrive under a brilliant sales manager. In fact, three out of four salespeople aren’t performing up to par, according to research from sales training consulting firm, Kurlan & Associates.