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When Your Sales Manager Sucks

Pipeliner

I was 27 years old when I got my first job in sales. After years of working in customer service, I had talked my supervisor into giving me a chance to make sales calls and earn what in my mind was some hefty commission. My only challenge was that I had no sales experience. 4 Strategies To Succeed No Matter What.

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Coaching A Talented/Unmotivated Rep?

Steven Rosen

Janet is an experienced and successful district sales manager who could work in any industry and for any company. Each month Janet is put to the test with different sales reps she must coach to success. The day is well planned and Ray has a good rapport with his customers. Sales Management Sales Management Coaching'

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Why You Should Outsource Your Sales Training

Janek Performance Group

Sales executives and sales managers would agree that their sales teams need ongoing training, coaching and support to get to the top of the game and stay there. In a fiercely-competitive market, your sales reps should challenge themselves to learn more, achieve greater results and embrace new strategies.

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[Message to Management:] Stop Babysitting, Start Coaching

No More Cold Calling

Get Proactive Sales leadership expert Kevin Davis puts this issue into perspective in his blog post, “ 5 Things Proactive Sales Managers Do Differently.” He shares the story of a Fortune 500 company that hired him to evaluate their sales management practices. Problems in customer service, order entry, you name it.

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Where did you learn to sell? How have you modified it? | Jeffrey.

Jeffrey Gitomer

I had new attitude lessons and new sales ideas, and if you can imagine a daily sales lesson lasting four hours, I was ON FIRE! Why would I waste that energy on having lunch with co-workers? I wanted to channel that energy, harness that energy, and direct it toward a sales prospect. Customer Loyalty.

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Drain Your Brain At The End of The Day | Jeffrey Gitomer | Sales.

Jeffrey Gitomer

SHORT FUSE: Loose temper that creates negative energy and blocks creative thought. Converting the negative energy of stress to a positive energy is the correct philosophy. Your mind has thoughts, and they either show up as stress, and worry, or you harness the same energy and convert the thoughts into resolve. Click here.

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When The Going Gets Tough

Partners in Excellence

We found we could get the order, but delivering it became more challenging–or when customers found we couldn’t deliver, they’d choose to do nothing. Pile on that changes in the global political/economic situation, exacerbating the challenges from before, prices, particularly energy related skyrocketed.