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Here Are The Dumbest Questions Salespeople Ask ? And Why.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Home. Store. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Contact. Here Are The Dumbest Questions Salespeople Ask — And Why They’re Dumb. Gitomer | April 21, 2011 | 8 Comments. Tweet Share Sales Truth: Salespeople become known by the questions they ask. Knowing this truth, you’d think all salespeople would ask smart questions.

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Adopt a Targeted Referral Strategy

No More Cold Calling

Make referral selling your priority. (Note: The word “priority” is singular.). Get Real. Words of wisdom from a client: “Joanne, the challenge is always in the execution.” He said that 20 years ago. I’ve never forgotten, because it’s still true. On the one hand, sales people agree that referral selling is hands-down their best sales strategy. It’s a completely different animal to implement a referral strategy.

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Sales 2.0 - The Impact on Selling and 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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He was in grave danger; there was only one way out

Pointclear

James Obermayer, Executive Director and CEO of the Sales Lead Management Association and President of Sales Leakage Consulting is a regular guest blogger with ViewPoint. The farmer trudged across the farm yard late one night and entered the barn. Light from the moon gave him enough visibility through the door and the cracks in the wooden walls as he crossed the open space to a wooden post mid-way into the barn where a lantern hung.

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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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Triple The Power of Your Presentation By Asking Yourself These 8.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Home. Store. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Contact. Triple The Power of Your Presentation By Asking Yourself These 8 Questions | Sales Training Tips. Gitomer | April 19, 2011 | 3 Comments. Tweet Share 1. What’s my time limit? 2. Is this the most compelling message I can create? 3. What’s the point? What will compel me to act?

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Want More Success Selling? Ask the Right Questions

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Top 10 Sales Articles by Steve W. Martin

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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Current Attitudes of Sales Pros Towards Social Media

Fill the Funnel

I wrote a post earlier this year titled “ The Invisible Sales Rep ” in which I wondered out loud why anyone in sales would ignore the power and capabilities of the social web. In the post I shared some real-life examples of what I have been finding within sales organizations. Shortly after the post ran I learned of a survey produced by the respected Paul McCord ( Sales and Management Blog ) and Richardson Sales Training that asked sales professionals about their feelings and experie

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Just Released: Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions a HIT in Asia!

Keith Rosen

Below is the press release that the event organizer just sent out. This was the group who invited me to Asia to deliver my management coach training program in Singapore and Malaysia. It was an incredible experience personally to travel to this part of the world and meet so many great managers who are truly committed to their growth as a leader by becoming more powerful and effective coaches.

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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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Sales Success - A Body @ Rest Stays At Rest Unless Compelled to.

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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Sales Leadership: Ready for July & August?

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Leadership: Ready for July & August? I maybe already too late, hopefully you aren’t? I often state that it is the salesperson’s responsibility to make quota not the sales managers, it is your responsibility to hire, train and put the salesperson in a position to win and exceed quota. Sales leadership means looking out 90 days or more to ensure you have the programs in place for success.

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How to Use Twitter as an Effective Sales Tool

Fill the Funnel

Express Registration: www.lorman.com/ID387702. Wednesday, April 20th at 10:00 am Pacific – 90 minutes in length. Because I am a faculty member, you can receive 20% off the fee. When registering, use priority code 15800 and discount code F2716129 for a 20% discount. Sales people are finding it increasingly difficult to decide which social tools to use for effectively identifying and engaging with their customers and prospects.

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

The Science and Art of Selling

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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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Just Released: Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions a HIT in Asia!

Keith Rosen

Below is the press release that the event organizer just sent out. This was the group who invited me to Asia to deliver my management coach training program in Singapore and Malaysia. It was an incredible experience personally to travel to this part of the world and meet so many great managers who are truly committed to their growth as a leader by becoming more powerful and effective coaches.

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If Content Marketing is the Titanic, Could Low Marketer Confidence be the Iceberg?

The ROI Guy

After two economic downturns over the past decade, most executives are scrutinizing budgets much more closely, and marketing is no exception. According to research from Junta42 and MarketingProfs, in surveys of over 1,100 North American B2B marketers, a significant portion (26%) of total marketing budget is spent on content-marketing initiatives, with 51% of B2B marketers planning to further increase their spend on content marketing over the next 12 months.

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Update/Results – What Would You Do With $1,000

Fill the Funnel

Thanks to all of you that participated in the poll I posted a week ago that asked the following question: “If you were handed $1,000 with the only requirement being that you had to put it into your sales career, where would it go?”. I intentionally used an open text field for your responses to give you the most flexibility in your answer. I have taken the liberty to read through the 67 responses and broken them down into the following buckets of answers starting from the least common to the mos

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Celebrate Earth Day with Brainshark

BrainShark

In light of the holiday that made going Green the new black, we thought we’d share a few ways that we battle the infamous carbon footprint.

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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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Just Released: Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions a HIT in Asia!

Keith Rosen

Below is the press release that the event organizer just sent out. This was the group who invited me to Asia to deliver my management coach training program in Singapore and Malaysia. It was an incredible experience personally to travel to this part of the world and meet so many great managers who are truly committed to their growth as a leader by becoming more powerful and effective coaches.

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How to Find the Right Type of Content For Your Business

The ROI Guy

Marketing budgets are growing for most companies, but so are the requirements to reach more empowered, skeptical and frugal buyers via more channels. How can you know that the content you invest in will forge effective connections and engagements that will ultimately lead to incremental sales? To help define how to best market and sell your solutions, SiriusDecisions has created an innovative way to understand the market characteristics for your offerings, which improves the chances for your suc

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A Manager's Coaching Dilemma: To Bring or Not To Bring Your Agenda to the Conversation

Sales Gravy

Although every conversation presents you with an opportunity to ask better open ended questions, draw a very clear line between a coaching session, a strategy session, a deal review, your agenda and a performance review conversation.

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Brainshark and Blackboard: A Signature Partnership

BrainShark

We are very pleased to announce our newly formed partnership with

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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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Just Released: Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions a HIT in Asia!

Keith Rosen

Below is the press release that the event organizer just sent out. This was the group who invited me to Asia to deliver my management coach training program in Singapore and Malaysia. It was an incredible experience personally to travel to this part of the world and meet so many great managers who are truly committed to their growth as a leader by becoming more powerful and effective coaches.

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The ROI of Conference Calls vs. Face to Face Meetings

Green Lead's B2B

Ever wonder if your enterprise sales team should be on the road heading to an introductory first meeting with a prospect? I was recently in the UK for business and saw sales reps investing a half day or more traveling for 30-60 minute meetings. Do the results differ if they were to have taken those introductory meetings by phone? Many would say yes, but the data begs to differ.

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What Rainmakers Do

The Ultimate Sales Executive Resource

In their new book «Rainmaking Conversations», Mike Schultz and John E. Doerr explain that rainmakers – sales superstars raking in considerably more sales than the average salesperson – follow 10 core principles. Taking these principles to heart is a prerequisite to the successful application of the Rainmaking Conversation Roadmap. RAIN is the acronym to describe this roadmap.

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Brainshark launches new website and blog

BrainShark

Today marks a new chapter in the Brainshark story!

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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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GlaxoSmithKline, Oracle, Merck, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Henkel, B. Braun and Dozens of Other Global Organizations Agree – Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions Provides The Transformational Framework Leaders Need To Become Powerful Coaches

Keith Rosen

In my prior post which you can find here, I shared with you the review of my management coach training program that I delivered in Asia. Here, you’ll find the detailed opinions and testimonials of many of the delegates who participated in these two events hosted in Malaysia and Singapore. (Click on the picture above to view the larger picture of this group.

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GlaxoSmithKline, Oracle, Merck, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Henkel, B. Braun and Dozens of Other Global Organizations Agree – Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions Provides The Transformational Framework Leaders Need To Become Powerful Coaches

Keith Rosen

In my prior post which you can find here, I shared with you the review of my management coach training program that I delivered in Asia. Here, you’ll find the detailed opinions and testimonials of many of the delegates who participated in these two events hosted in Malaysia and Singapore. (Click on the picture above to view the larger picture of this group.

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GlaxoSmithKline, Oracle, Merck, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Henkel, B. Braun and Dozens of Other Global Organizations Agree – Coaching Salespeople into Sales Champions Provides The Transformational Framework Leaders Need To Become Powerful Coaches

Keith Rosen

In my prior post which you can find here, I shared with you the review of my management coach training program that I delivered in Asia. Here, you’ll find the detailed opinions and testimonials of many of the delegates who participated in these two events hosted in Malaysia and Singapore. (Click on the picture above to view the larger picture of this group.

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