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Please Stop the Ongoing Insanity in Bank Sales Training

Increase Sales

During lunch a Vice President of a regional bank asked me this very pointed question: Why doesn’t sales training for banks stick? My quick and direct response was “banks and other financial institutions continue to use the same training providers they have been using for the last 20 plus years.”

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How to become a sales manager: Making the jump from seller to leader

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As a sales manager, you’ll be directly responsible for bringing in enough new business to replace the revenue lost, and then some. You need to have a concrete understanding of what makes a great salesperson because it will be your responsibility to support and train them. Accept Constructive Criticism.

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An Open Letter to Social Sellers Everywhere

Tony Hughes

Don't just install it, train your people on it thoroughly, weekly and quarterly. Think of Twitter as the spokes, the amplification that used to be encapsulated as Direct Response Marketing or e-mail blasts. When I train sales people I train them to execute. The folly of Sales 2.0 It's Google Glass. Explain more.