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Pitching and Selling Products at The Home Depot (Part 1)

SBI Growth

For companies selling any construction-related products, finding shelf space on the largest home improvement retailer, The Home Depot (HD), is a dream. All that exposure to the many customers shopping at the continually growing chain is hard to ignore, which is why many vendors apply to be put on HD’s shelves. Who Are You Selling to?

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Digital Marketing Takes Center Stage

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Paul Nolan As the highly anticipated initial public offering of Airbnb crept closer last year, stock analysts swooned over the company’s ability to garner 91% of its website traffic organically?—?10 10 times the organic traffic of its competitor, Booking.com. That’s clearly unconscionable, but it doesn’t make Harris’ insights any less valid.

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The Eerie Future of Cold Calling and What Sales Leaders Can Do Today

Pipeliner

As sales leaders, I can assure you that the challenges you are facing today with cold calling reluctance from members of your sales team is only going to get worse as time goes on unless you have a proactive plan. Another said, “What do you mean by it being off the hook?” First, we know it’s not that easy. It’s career suicide.”.

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Top 21 Sales Training Programs and Techniques to Boost Team Performance in 2022

Highspot

Clicking mindlessly through an agonizingly slow video presentation or sitting in a hot, stuffy conference room with dozens of other people listening to a presenter drone on about things you already know. Sales training programs are often like that — but they don’t have to be. The trick is knowing what training program and techniques to use.

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KO Sales | Virtual Selling For Traditional Industries

KO Advantage Group

Construction. With in-person meetings, networking events, trade shows, and conferences canceled in the face of COVID-19, salespeople had to find new ways to identify potential customers while also maintaining strong relationships with existing ones. Oil & gas. Precision craft. Virtual Sales and LinkedIn are growing.

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Personal Branding in Sales: An Introduction

Janek Performance Group

In our digital sales age, we’re seeing increasing attention paid to the idea of personal branding. Although the idea itself is by no means new (a brief history is below), awareness of its importance and value in business – including for sales reps – is now reaching a critical mass of awareness. There’s a problem, however. But it’s true.

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The insider’s guide to choosing the best CRM for your sales organization

OnePageCRM

. “It cost a few hundred dollars all in and it was actually a desktop app that synced to the cloud once a day for backup. It now seems kind of quaint, but, it helped me start my book of business that today has over 10,000 contacts in it. I can say that I’ve had a personal conversation with almost every single one of them. Do you need a CRM?

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