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Finish 2013 Strong so You Can Start 2014 Right

The Sales Hunter

Mainly, they offer too many discounts or other concessions that ultimately destroy profit and diminish the confidence the customer has in the salesperson and/or the product. I just think if you coast now, you won’t be able to psych yourself up enough to compensate for your poor performance in the 4th quarter of 2013.

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Emotional Intelligence Grows Sales

Score More Sales

From a personal standpoint, I once lost a position running a corporate university because, in part, some of the C-level team felt it was too focused on “soft skills” See if any of these sound familiar for you or someone on the sales team: Discounting and getting price shopped – lack of self-regard or assertiveness.

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The Most Important Sales Metrics You’re Not Tracking @DeidreWM

SBI

And they ranked it higher than lead generation, compensation, and sales methodology. And we aren’t just talking about selling skills. Based on your unique sales process and KPIs, you might select capabilities data, such as proficiency scores related to a particular skill or product set. Why is that?

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Sales Managers Have the Hardest Job in Sales | Sales Motivation.

The Sales Hunter

Professional Selling Skills Training: Sales Compensation and Sales Commissions. discounting. high profit selling. selling a price increase. selling skills. discounting. high profit selling. selling a price increase. selling skills. cold calling. leadership.

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3 Ways Price-Buyers Steal Your Salespeople's Time

The Brooks Group

It almost always gets some kind of concession from the selling organization in the form of a discount, rebate, throw-in or some other “extra.” How to think through compensation. How to position selling skills training to experienced salespeople. They want full measure. But you really need to recognize one thing.

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Sales Targets – Top 4 Reasons Companies Don???t Hit Them

Klozers

There is a tendency amongst some sales professionals to discount the basics, as they have been in sales for x number of years. (I have spent 16 years being a parent and I am still struggling with it.) Any number of years in sales does not mean you can sell, or mean you can consistently hit sales targets.

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How To Motivate Sales People – Without Money

Klozers

Whilst money via compensation or commission plans is the obvious way to motivate sales people, does this really work? Related Posts Sales People – 5 Reasons They Discount To Sell Psychometric Tests  Sales DNA or Sales Tarot Cards? Are there other ways we can motivate the sales team to get the same results? .