Sun.Aug 28, 2016

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Working Smarter and Harder is a Faulty Sales Strategy

SBI Growth

Many sales executives have yet to receive their revenue growth goal for the new year. Despite this, many SVPs will maintain that they can achieve this unknown target. If your sales strategy can be summed up as “I’ll hit the number.

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The War Room and What It Can Tell You

Sales and Marketing Management

Issue Date: 2016-08-29. Author: Jason Jordan and Michelle Vazzana. Teaser: A real-time view of sales force performance makes us feel in touch with the organization. And increased transparency to field-level activities gives us the satisfying sense that we are somehow in control of the sales force’s behaviors. However, visibility to an action does not equate to control over it.

Sales 136
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SBI’s First Ten Years

SBI Growth

Every Sunday morning we will publish a photograph of an SBI’er “in action” which is meant to illustrate how much fun we have working with you. This project has one purpose: to celebrate you, our clients and followers. Companies, firms, and fads.

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Sales Motivation Video: Fail Fast! Learn Even Faster!

The Sales Hunter

If you’re not failing, you probably aren’t learning all you need to learn. That’s right! I say, “Fail fast and learn even faster.” In sales and in life, we are all going to fail from time to time. Key is to take those experiences, learn from them, and move forward toward success. Check out this […].

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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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Spazz Out 8: Not Following Instructions and The Death of Your Career

A Sales Guy

At a Sales Guy we have a unique job search approach. We look for resourceful, outside of the box, creative, driven thinkers who can get things done. We don’t look for people who do things like everyone else and who are looking to be told how to do things. Our job postings have very specific instructions and for the life of us, we don’t understand why only 10% of applicants follow the instructions.