Fri.Jun 03, 2016

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4 Strategies All Successful Salespeople MUST Employ

MTD Sales Training

We often see the successful salesperson and put it down to being in the right place at the right time, getting the breaks or simply being ‘lucky’. When successful people are analysed, though, we see. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Big Data and Big Lies Have Arrived in the Sales Training and Assessment Space

Understanding the Sales Force

I've been trying very hard to find the time to write this article. I always have plenty of material but I just couldn't wait to write this particular article, and I've been waiting for nearly 24 hours since the idea was triggered by an email. 24 hours may not seem like a lot of time, but for me, once I decide to do something, I want to do it right then.

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Executive Sales Leader Briefing: Are You Listening or Just Waiting to Talk?

The Sales Hunter

Welcome to the Executive Sales Leader Briefing, a new blog series I am doing every Friday. If you want to receive the Executive Sales Leader Briefing in text form in an email early Friday morning before it is published on the website, go to this page to sign up or complete the below information: Think […].

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A Real Salesperson Is.

Increase Sales

The question of what is or what makes a real salesperson is answered on a weekly if not daily basis by noted sales experts. And the funny thing is their answers have some similarities, but also have differences. Some of these quoted experts may share specific sales skills while others look to interpersonal or people skills. Much of these differences can be traced back to one often ignored aspect – human uniqueness.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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I Heard You, But I Can See You Too [Don’t Let Your Mouth Get Ahead of Your Actions]

A Sales Guy

via GIPHY. We all have the best intentions. I have to believe that. It keeps me sane. However, in spite of our intentions, we have a tendency to say and believe things about ourselves that just aren’t true. We say we’re committed to our job, but we haven’t done anything to improve our ability to get better at it in years. We say we’re health conscious, but rarely work out and eat like s**t most of the time.

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How the Best Sellers Treat Prospects | Sales Tips

Engage Selling

I’ve noticed a real difference between how top performers and poor performers treat their buyers. I discuss the distinction between the two in this week’s video sales tip! Want to drastically increase sales in your organization?

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How to Conduct Half Year Reviews For Your Sales Team

Mindtickle

It’s nearly time for the bi-annual performance review performance again. As I pulled out data and started to fill out forms for each of my sales reps, I started to think about how much benefit this process provides to them and whether there’s a way to actually make the mid-year performance review process more relevant from a sales perspective. Turning to LinkedIn, I came across some interesting conversations on the way different managers approach reviews for their sales staff.

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4 Steps to Improving Forecast Accuracy with a Common Sales Process 

The Brooks Group

Sales forecasts are by nature imperfect, but according to SiriusDecisions research, 79% of sales organizations miss their forecast by more than 10%. That inaccuracy has a tremendous effect on an organization’s ability to deliver high-quality products and services to customers. The most common reason sales managers can’t get sales reps to forecast more accurately is because there isn’t a common sales process represented in the pipeline stages.