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Getting Time On Your Side

The Pipeline

If you know the specifics of your sales cycle, average length of cycle, critical points, number of interactions (phone, live, web, e-mails, etc.), then you have the data on which you can build knowledge and success. You can map out your sale, manage it and lead the sales process not just go along for the ride.

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18 Sales Podcasts Every Rep Should Check Out

Hubspot Sales

Learn about sales team management, creative business development strategies, time-saving sales tools, B2B strategic partnerships, aligning sales with marketing, effective prospecting, negotiation techniques, and more. Hosts: Sales trainer Bryan Neale and author, speaker, and coach Bill Caskey.

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College Football Wagering and What It Has to Do with Sales

Braveheart Sales

In the sage words of my good friend and brilliant consultant, Casey Brown , follow the three P’s to deal with stress and anxiety in sellers. Sales success shouldn’t be based on an emotional wager for a desired outcome. Data source: Objective Management Group, 2020. So, What Can Be Done? Plan: Plan your calls in advance.

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Are You a Spreadsheet Jockey or an Observant People Manager?

Keith Rosen

I recently posted the following comment on Twitter and was asked to clarify what I meant by it: Data tells you WHAT you’re people do-not the QUALITY of their efforts. I look at the data.” If you’re analyzing the data, you would see that they’re both engaging in the same activity. Observation is key.

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Talent, Training, and Tactics: Leveraging the 3 Ts of Successful Selling

EyesOnSales

As a sales manager, you have a million plates spinning. Harvard Business Review says the sales industry sees a pretty consistent turnover rate — up to 30 percent of sales employees annually — and it's due, in part, to subpar talent. What sales tactics could be more successful?

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Make the Two-Foot Drop

Braveheart Sales

Some years ago, I received sage advice from a dear friend and mentor to “make the two-foot drop” from the head to the gut. What is surprising is that when selling to B2B customers, salespeople tend to “stick to the facts,” using data and information. Let me pass that advice along to you. Not Making the Two-Foot Drop.

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Create Massive Leverage with the Last Week of 2018: 15 Experts Show You How to Master 2019 Now

Hyper-Connected Selling

” Andy Crestodina , the sage leader of Orbit Media , dives into his report on net promoter score (or something similar). “It helps me understand client happiness so that we can know how we’re doing and we’re we can improve. Andy Paul , founder of the Sales House and host of Accelerate! takes it a step further.

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