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Targeting Sales Opportunities - The Hidden Truth

Understanding the Sales Force

Targeting is a fairly simple practice, but when sales management doesn't perform this activity for their salespeople (as in, "Mary, call on these 27 accounts.") Take the case of the salesperson who targets hospitals, oil companies, banks and insurance agencies. They aren't being held accountable by sales management.

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How to Avoid the Trash Folder

No More Cold Calling

If you’re sending mass emails to prospects you don’t know, don’t be surprised when you get deleted. Then there’s the real junk—offers for burial insurance, introductions to Russian beauties, discounts on Viagra, and other nonsense. Your prospects don’t want to hear your generic sales pitch.

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How to Successfully Cut Costs and Keep Your Team Together in Tough Times

Sales Hacker

If you have to cut your sales team’s salaries, it’s better to lower the base than lower the bonus. With the prospect of a healthy bonus, your team will be better motivated to sell. Bonuses continue, everybody keeps their health insurance, and your employees get 3-day weekends to recharge until things heat back up.

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B2B Sales? They Could Be Called B2P Sales! | Sales Motivation.

The Sales Hunter

Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Sales Articles. Sales Motivation. I refer to these relationships as an insurance policy, because they can help you have in place what you need to fight off a remote influencer should they appear.

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Sales 2.0 - The Impact on Selling and Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

Dont miss "5 Ways That Managers Can Impact Sales This Year in the May-June 2010 SalesforceXP magazine! Read Tonys article.recently published in Bank Insurance & Securities Marketing Magazine! building sales relationships (7). open ended sales questions (11). performance management (3). Prospecting (25).

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How to Close a Sales Deal: 7 Effective Techniques

LeadFuze

Here are the things the top sellers are doing right: They focus on the prospects’ needs. They ask questions that require a lot of information from the prospect, which will help them demonstrate their knowledge and understanding. ” or “I’m going to give you my employee discount because we’re friends.”

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18 Sales Podcasts Every Rep Should Check Out

Hubspot Sales

Linking Into Sales Podcast. The Sales Evangelist. Bowery Capital Startup Sales Podcast. Get in the Door: Sales Prospecting Strategies & Tactics. The Sales Babble Podcast. Sales Pipeline Radio. Make It Happen Mondays -- B2B Sales with John Barrows. The Sales Podcast. In the Arena.

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