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Virtual Selling Is Not The Same Thing As Digital Buying

Partners in Excellence

While we focus on developing our virtual selling skills; do you have the right camera/lighting, an appropriate background, are you dressed appropriately–at least from the waist up, are you looking at the camera, not the person’s image on screen…… our customers are doing something different.

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The Adapter’s Advantage Podcast: Episode 20 Featuring David Bauders

Allego

In episode 20, SPARXiQ Founder and CEO David Bauders shares how sales organizations can adapt to the new normal, the power of analytics to accelerate sales performance, and why you learn the most from your most demanding customers. It’s innovation that helps us make it better to be our customer and harder to be our competitors.

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell” Is BS!

Partners in Excellence

The article started with a statement to the effect of “ill informed pundits quoting data that sales people spend only 10-30% of their time F2F with customers.” I call that TIme Available For Selling, (TAFS—just what we need, another acronym.). Customers don’t want to spend time with sales people.

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Chally on Challenger – “Defining sales role requirements is not as simple as comparing apples to oranges!”

Jonathan Farrington

The skill and capability of the customer facing sales team has never been more important. However, these traditional competitive advantages continue to be neutralized by process improvement methodologies like Six Sigma and more importantly, the educated/informed customer. vs- Specialist).

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

Klozers

. 4 out of 10 companies surveyed failed to fully understand the customers buying process. F urthermore only 1 out of 10 were proficient at understanding the customers buying process. Sales 101 tells us if the sales person cannot differentiate their product or service from the competition, then the customer will.

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Sales Targets – 2 Reasons You Won’t Hit This Year’s Target

Klozers

As discussed in our post on the Top 4 Reasons Companies Don’t Hit Them , many Sales Professionals simply, a) either do not know or do not employ basic selling skills, b) move something forward in their sales pipeline or c) move something out of their sales pipeline. 2) Change  or lack of it. .

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20.5 Attitude Gems For You To Read And Study | Jeffrey Gitomer.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Revel” and “lament” are choices. Customer Loyalty. Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless. It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. Sound familiar? Attitude manifests itself in your RESPONSE to events. Your choices. Categories.

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