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Is it Your Salespeople or Did You Make a Bad Decision?

Understanding the Sales Force

Consider buying a car that had an insanely cheap price, with every option you could imagine, as well as options that you never thought you could use. Nice! But, you can't drive it until you hire an after market specialist to install instrumentation on the dashboard, a steering wheel, brakes, and gas pedal in the driver's area. When you finally accept delivery and take it for a spin with your family, everyone hates it, nobody wants to drive with you, and you feel like it wasn't such a great price

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Here’s Why Brand Positioning Matters

SBI Growth

We recently spoke with Kay Kienast, the head of marketing for Seagate Technology’s EVault division. Kay has served as an executive marketing leader for Xerox’ enterprise division, Lexmark, Cisco, and notable startup Avocent. The topic of our interview is the importance.

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Is it Your Salespeople or Did You Make a Bad Decision?

Understanding the Sales Force

Consider buying a car that had an insanely cheap price, with every option you could imagine, as well as options that you never thought you could use. Nice! But, you can't drive it until you hire an after market specialist to install instrumentation on the dashboard, a steering wheel, brakes, and gas pedal in the driver's area. When you finally accept delivery and take it for a spin with your family, everyone hates it, nobody wants to drive with you, and you feel like it wasn't such a great price

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How Your Sales Leads May Be Starving Your SMB

Increase Sales

Sales leads happen in all seasons. Without sales leads, sales revenue is not generated to pay the vendors, the employees, the overhead, the government and most importantly you, the SMB owner. So what type of sales leads are you hunting? Credit www.gratisography.com. There are 4 types of sales. First there are the rabbits. Rabbits are small sales and can found almost anywhere during the average course of a day.

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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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Marketing Automation First Step is Social Media

Fill the Funnel

If you’re ready to get started with marketing automation, the easiest place to start is with social media. It’s very simple to start automating certain social media tasks, and you’ll quickly see how this saves you time for more value-added activity. In fact, automation can do some tasks we human beings can’t on our own. Set Your Goal.

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Sales Tips: Invest In Your Sales Organization

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Investing In Your Sales Organization. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. A few years ago I attended a conference. One of the speakers was in the sales training and consulting business. He recalled a conversation when the CEO of one of his clients shared a concern: What if I train a seller that decides to leave the company?

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How to Multiply Time

Tom Hopkins

Time is as precious a commodity as money. Let’s explore how to multiply time so you can get more sales productivity out of the time you have to invest in your sales career. Everyone knows you can make twice the income by working twice the number of hours, putting forth twice the amount of effort. The […]. The post How to Multiply Time appeared first on How to Selling Skills.

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Improve your sales calls: Feedback that’ll boost the performance of your senior sales reps (Free checklist)

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In our previous post, we explored how to successfully evaluate sales calls with your junior reps. The post tackled seven attributes that are crucial to having a successful sales call. 1. Setting a goal 2. Knowing the pitch 3. Sticking to the facts 4. Exercising confidence 5.

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The Year of the Account Based Sales Development Rep

SalesLoft

2016 has officially been deemed the year of the Account Based Sales Development Rep because it’s acting as the first wave of modernization for the sales organization. But what does it mean for you as an individual SDR? What kind of mindset shifts do you need to make as you transition to an ABSD process? You may be hesitant to change your process — especially if you’ve been crushing your lead-based numbers — but you need to keep in mind that your goal is to be more effective i

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.