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Reveling In Complexity

Partners in Excellence

As a result, it’s human nature to address complexity by reveling in the complex. Sometimes, we lose site of how we revel in complexity. The post Reveling In Complexity first appeared on Partners in EXCELLENCE Blog -- Making A Difference. The problems our customers face are complex.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Charles Green

Partners in Excellence

Not fertile ground for sales folk. And of course I shared the common negative stereotype about salespeople. It was a life-changing experience regarding business – but not regarding sales. Then came the day of my first “sales” opportunity. It went against everything I knew about sales (which of course was not much).

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Of Course Sales Is About Relationships!

Partners in Excellence

I am fuming at one of the most amazingly naive posts about “the Death Of Sales.” ” Ironically it’s written by a sales leader at one of the leading Marketing and Sales Automation company. And his products are focused on helping sales people become more effective! We’re not alone.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Innovating from the Top: How a Former CMO Revitalized a Company as CEO (Ep107)

Alice Heiman

One of the most striking revelations from Harris was the absence of a demand generation and marketing strategy within Challenger. Leveraging her background as a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), Harris embarked on building a robust demand generation engine.

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Virtual Selling Is Not The Same Thing As Digital Buying

Partners in Excellence

Of course, they are engaging sales people through virtual channels, but that’s an increasingly small part of how and where they spend their time in their digital buying journey. We know, collectively, they spend less than 17% of their time with sales people, virtually or in person. Buyers are struggling more!

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Driving Our Customers/Prospects Away!

Partners in Excellence

I, and so many others, write constantly about how buying is changing and how sellers (sales and marketing) must change to respond to these changes. Yet we revel in the “win,” high fiving each other, looking forward to our commission checks. If they can get it done working with sales people, they will do it.

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Is The Future Of Selling PLG?

Partners in Excellence

Apparently, much of the “future of sales,” will be driven by PLG initiatives. I get why sales people revel in this. PLG is great for sales. Learning about the customer, their markets, their industry is so distracting! Of course we can always blame marketing. (Of