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What are the biggest mistakes salespeople make? | Sales Training.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Home. Store. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Contact. What are the biggest mistakes salespeople make? Gitomer | September 7, 2011 | 2 Comments. Tweet Share 1. Getting into sales for the money. If you don’t love what you do, you will never achieve the goals that you’ve set for yourself, let alone the arbitrary ones your company sets for you (also known as quotas).

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The Pipeline ? ?But we're not IBM?

The Pipeline

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Free Is Expensive

No More Cold Calling

There’s a glitch in the familiar “freebie” thinking: If a customer doesn’t see value, there is no way they can assign a price to it. Read Mark Hunter’s brilliant article: Free is Expensive in Top Sales World Magazine (easily download the current issue with free registration—see the Top Sales Magazine box in the left-hand column of the homepage, and subscribe!).

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On the Verge of Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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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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The Truth and Profit Behind Your Service | Sales Training.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Home. Store. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Contact. The Truth and Profit Behind Your Service. Gitomer | September 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment. Tweet Share I’m in Las Vegas, where nine of the ten largest hotels in the world reside. Each hotel competes against the other for huge contracts. Business meetings. Conventions.

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Looking for Good B2B Leads? Get LinkedIn!

MTD Sales Training

With the influx of social networking sites flooding the Internet, LinkedIn has emerged as the premiere resource for business professionals. Launched in 2003, LinkedIn reports to have more than 120 million registered members in over 200 countries worldwide. Business professionals around the globe use LinkedIn to establish a professional profile, reconnect with colleagues, share information and look for jobs or hire talented professionals.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Feedback to millennial sales reps – more is better!

Sales Training Connection

Much has been written about Millennials – a generation comprising 26% of the population who will have significant impact on the workplace. Yet one aspect of Millennials in the sales force only tangentially touched, but which will have significant implications for sales management,is the desire for more feedback. . We know Millennials are open to coaching and view feedback as a developmental opportunity.

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Lessons From What Not To Wear for Sales Professionals

Increase Sales

The popular TV show of What Not to Wear provides numerous lessons for Sales Professionals. Believe it or not! Credit-www.allbabypix.com. From messy or ill fitting clothes to inappropriate attire, the participants learn through the advice and expertise of Stacy and Clayton (think sales experts) how image is so important. However, the most consistent lessons are the connections between your external image, how you feel about who you are on the inside internal self image) and success.

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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.

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How Much Time Do You Invest In Your Profession?

MTD Sales Training

Everyone in the business of selling wants to be the best in their field, earn a high-level income and have a rewarding career. However, most sales people do not take the steps necessary to achieve their career goals. Here is a tough question to ask yourself to determine if you are a true sales professional capable of making it to the top. How much time do you invest in education and training in your profession?

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Be Provocative in 2012 As More Of Buyer’s Budgets Are Up for Grabs

The ROI Guy

Being provocative is a sales and marketing requirement in order to get your fair share of deals in 2012, this according to the annual B2B Buyer’s survey of Demand Creation Specialists (DCS). The latest research indicates that going into the 2012 budget cycle, only $1 out of every $4 in new project budgets are pre-allocated at the beginning of the year.

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Sales Training Connection post selected as an Editor’s Top 10 Pick by Customer Think

Sales Training Connection

Yesterday we received this email from Bob Thompson, Founder/CEO of Customer Think … Congratulations! Your post made my “Top 10″ list for the past week. Lessons from IBM – change is the “new normal” in sales. You can find this at: [link]. . This week’s Advisor email newsletter will feature your post as an Editor’s Pick. .

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Capitalists Do Care – Friday’s Editorial

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Capitalist do care contrary to what the mass media or many politicians and citizens may think. For example,did you now that J.Pierpont Morgan (JP Morgan) bailed out the New York Stock Exchange several times back in the early 1900s? Credit www.sxc.hu. Fast forward, 100 years to Andrew Youn who was earning his MBA and then started a not for profit fund ( One Acre Fund) to help farmers in East Africa.

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Redefining the CDP: 8 Data-Driven Designs for Successful Customer Journeys

In this guide, discover 8 use cases for how a customer data platform can tackle common challenges faced by marketing, commerce, service, and sales teams. With helpful diagrams and simple explanations in each use case, see how Salesforce’s CDP, Data Cloud for Marketing, powers personalized, real-time experiences across marketing, with capabilities that include: Optimizing ad spend Powering dynamic website content Increasing upselling and cross-selling Resolving service cases with marketing data B

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Hot Tips For The New Sales Person

MTD Sales Training

Here is a very interesting question I received the other day from a new sales person. It is a common problem that sales people who are new to the selling profession or are just starting with a new company; often run into. “I have just started with a new company and prospects seem to know that I am new right away. Since I have little experience in this industry, I have trouble gaining the buyer’s trust.

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The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer ? Blog Archive.

The Science and Art of Selling

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Sales Management Thought Leadership:Efficient Effectiveness

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Management Thought Leadership: efficient effectiveness. As an Eagle Scout I can discuss the topic of “Be Prepared” easily and based upon this past Sunday it even has more credibility. Sunday was “Boom’s Day” the largest fireworks display in the U.S occurs each Labor Day weekend in Knoxville, TN-so what does that mean? An estimated 400,000 people flock to the river front to watch the event; boats on the river, people lined up on the docks, roads and every home, parking lot and condo pac

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Sunday Work Life Balance and Sustainability Sales Tip #5

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Weekends challenge many sales professionals especially entrepreneurs respective to work life balance and sustainability. With only so many hours in a day, business leftovers fall to the weekend to complete and then there is always something else to do. Each Sunday after church, I would hurry home to take care of some of those business leftovers. Actually I went to the early mass so that I could get home quicker.

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Retail Tech: Empower Associates, Optimize CX, and Boost Productivity

Speaker: Andrew Regan, Managing Partner at BlueSeed Retail Ltd.

Did you know that 70% of new retail technology fails to deliver expected benefits and can often decrease customer value, service, and experience? With that in mind, how can we empower our store associates to leverage new technology to optimize the customer experience and boost productivity? This exclusive webinar with Andrew Regan will dive into strategies to empower retail associates for success with new technology.

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Happy Labor Day!

Sales Training Connection

Happy Labor Day to all of our Sales Training Connection readers. We wish you a great holiday weekend, and a great business finish to 2011. Janet and Dick. Technorati Tags: sales training articles , sales training blogs.

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Customer Idea - Periodic Content Review

BrainShark

One of the challenges for educators is to keep content relevant, for as soon as we create it, the content starts to become stale. This is especially true in any industry that is heavily regulated, such as mine: finance.

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Content Marketing Assessment Introduced at Content Marketing World!

The ROI Guy

Joe Pulizzi (JuntaJoe) and Content Marketing Institute introduced to a crowd of 600+ Content Marketing World attendees, our jointly developed Content Marketing Assessment - a new diagnostic assessment tool to help marketers optimize their content marketing spending, strategies and tactics. The complimentary tool is available by clicking here. (You can see key results on-line, but registration is required to download 30+ page benchmark report).

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Sales Strategies: Help – My Sales are Slumping and I don’t Know Why! By Mary Gardner

Sales Training Advice

Have you ever taken a look around your company and wondered what in the heck the other people were doing to bring in so much business to the company? You may feel that you’re on equal ground with the other sales person or people, but for some reason they are way ahead of you in the numbers in sales. What is it? Do they drink a magic potion every morning?

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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How To Eliminate Stress From Your Sales Job

The Brooks Group

There's a myth that the grass is greener just on the other side of the hill. In sales jobs, the myth is that there's a better sales job somewhere else. "If I can just find a better place," we tell ourselves, "I'll be happier, with a bigger salary, and less stressed." I'm here to bust that myth. I believe that any sales job has positives and negatives.

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Using Brainshark as a Visual/Audio Discussion Board

BrainShark

Inquiry is once again being widely touted as basic to health and science instruction and, from an online perspective, the online discussion board can be a great way to improve student instruction and learning.

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The Best Way to Handle a Grudge or Grievance

Sales Gravy

Don’t let wounds fester, and don’t let grievances grow. If you suspect someone is holding a grudge, but you’re not certain, see what you can find out. If you find evidence that someone is harboring a grudge, do what you can to clear the air.

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Successful Selling in Tough Times By Colleen Francis

Sales Training Advice

Before You Complain about the Economy… I think we can agree that the economy is still unstable. While some companies are flourishing others are suffering. Likewise some sales professionals are exceeding their goals and others. I would say about 75% are crying about their poor results blaming the economy. We see it every day at Engage, with sales rep after sales rep not achieving their goals coming to us for advice on how to sell in a slow market.

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Connect, Care, Convert: Secrets to Establishing Trust with Niche Markets and Turning Them Into Clients

Speaker: Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®

Niche markets represent a huge opportunity for the financial services industry in America. From college students and women to communities of color and low-to-moderate-income households, niche populations have specialized financial needs – but they often underutilize many valuable financial products and services. How can you better connect with these consumers?

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Alinean Announces Content Optimization Assessment

The ROI Guy

Benchmarks Content Spending, Strategy and Tactics, Aligning Content to Best Facilitate Buying Cycle Alinean unveils its new Content Optimization Assessment service as content marketers from around the globe converge in Cleveland for the opening of the Content Marketing World 2011 event. Alinean, the premier provider of interactive content marketing and value-based sales enablement services and tools, today announced the launch of the Content Optimization Assessment, an in-depth benchmark compari

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A 7-minute Guide to Facebook Security

BrainShark

Several weeks ago, Facebook released a free guide detailing how to protect your account and online identity while using the popular site.

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Get the Power of Word-of-Mouth Working for You | Sell More, Word.

Engage Selling

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