Sat.Feb 11, 2012 - Fri.Feb 17, 2012

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A Big Selling Mistake – Never Judge A Book By It’s Cover

MTD Sales Training

Be honest; have you ever walked into a sales interaction or had a prospect come in the door and immediately say to yourself, “OMG! This is a losing situation?”. No matter how hard we try, often it is difficult NOT to make predetermined, and usually unfounded judgments about people based on first appearances. It is also likely that you have been the recipient of such prejudgement yourself.

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5.5 Elements To Think About When Presenting | Jeffrey Gitomer.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Home. Store. Online Training. See Jeffrey Live! Hire Jeffrey. Who is Jeffrey? Contact. 5.5 Elements To Think About When Presenting. Gitomer | February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment. Tweet Share Your ability to present a compelling, believable, enthusiastic, value-driven message is the difference between yes and no, understanding and confusion, acceptance or rejection, and even approval or denial.

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What it Really Means When CRM Isn't a Sales Force Priority

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan It's rare when a company isn't using something for CRM, even if it's an old version of ACT. In most companies, it's not whether they are using CRM, it's which CRM they have chosen to use and whether the CRM has actually been adopted. The CRM application of choice is completely useless to management unless the entire sales force is using it as intended.

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The Pipeline ? Sales Force (Mis)Alignment

The Pipeline

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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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Come On In, The Water’s Lovely! LinkedIn Is Not Just For Businesses It’s For Sales Professionals Too!

MTD Sales Training

Today’s buyers are a lot more sales savvy; they conduct research online about your products and services, your company and your competitors all with a few clicks of a mouse. The internet and social media in particular are now your buyers’ best friends, as it puts them in control of the modern day sales process, so what are you doing to redress this balance of power?

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5 Deadly Sins People Make When Networking | Sales Motivation.

The Sales Hunter

Home. About. FREE Resources. Hire Mark. Client List. Testimonials. Client Login. Mark Hunter. Client List. Testimonials. Speaking. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Training. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Blog. FREE Resources. Sales Articles.

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The Pipeline ? It's Not Always Easy

The Pipeline

Home About The Pipeline. Contest. Free Resources. Search. 0 Subscribers. Subscribe by Email. We take privacy seriously. Your email address will not be shared. Sign up for our Email Newsletter. For Email Newsletters you can trust. RTV - High Execution TV Archive Select Month March 2012. February 2012. January 2012. December 2011. November 2011. October 2011.

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3 Powerful Tips To Create Client Loyalty

MTD Sales Training

In today’s marketplace of shrinking budgets , growing competition and modern, sophisticated buyers, establishing stronger client loyalty is not easy. There always stands a competitor ready to offer lower prices and higher value, while buyers are also looking to play companies off one another in search of the best deal. It should be obvious to anyone in business today, that to establish true customer loyalty takes a lot more than the old price, product and performance formula.

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CSI: Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

Landing big, new contracts is cause for celebration at most companies. The smart ones, however, get busy understanding the reasons behind their success instead of getting giddy over it, says Rick Reynolds.

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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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Toss the Technology—Relationships Still Rule

No More Cold Calling

Technology has its place, but nothing beats the person-to-person referral sale. The Internet and other technology breakthroughs have fundamentally changed the way we do business. New technology is created at warp speed, and customers expect immediate decisions. This cycle of ever-increasing speed and sophistication not only creates an intensely competitive marketplace, but places further demands on our companies to act and react quickly.

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Fixing the Sharp Stick(s) in the Eye - 10 Obstacles to 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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4 Ways To Oversell Yourself Right Out Of The Sale!

MTD Sales Training

Can you oversell your product or service? Is it possible to oversell to the point where you actually lose the sale, causing the buyer to change his or her mind? In a word, YES! Here are four common ways that you can actually lose a sale after it’s done and dusted! #1. Continue to push benefits after a buying decision. The prospect has said “Yes,” and made the decision to buy.

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B2B Sales? They Could Be Called B2P Sales! | Sales Motivation.

The Sales Hunter

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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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How to Make Social Sell: From Thought Leader to Thought Provoker

Pointclear

Jeff Molander is a professional speaker, author of Off the Hook Marketing: How to Make Social Media Sell for You and adjunct faculty at Loyola University Business School. He blogs at www.offthehookblog.com and can be reached at jeff@jeffmolander.com. Why is it so difficult to generate actual leads and sales using social media in the B2B world? At risk of my wife divorcing me, I decided to take a year off and find out how those brands who were succeeding with social media were doing it.

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A Sharp Stick in the Eye is Better Than "Think it Over"

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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Selling On Value Not Price Will Increase Sales

Increase Sales

“Selling on value, not price, will increase sales.” I cannot count the number of times I have shared this sales observation with clients and even on some of my social media postings. Of course giving credit where credit is due, my father told me this many, many years ago. In sales as much as things change, they do indeed remain the same.

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Voicemail as a Prospecting Strategy? YES! | Sales Motivation and.

The Sales Hunter

Home. About. FREE Resources. Hire Mark. Client List. Testimonials. Client Login. Mark Hunter. Client List. Testimonials. Speaking. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Training. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Blog. FREE Resources. Sales Articles.

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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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You Don’t Need the Best Sales Talent to Win

A Sales Guy

“ Our job isn’ t to assemble the best players, it’s to put together the best team” – Bill Belichick and Scot Pioli New England Patriots. I had to process this for a little while. For me it was a bit confusing. Doesn’t a great team require the best players? As I kicked this around my head I kept being reminded of all the amazingly talented teams that fell on their face and failed.

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The Secret To Sales Success

Partners in Excellence

It seems to be human nature to look for the secrets to success—the formula, if followed, will lead every sales person to the pot of gold at the end of every deal or opportunity. I know what that secret is, I’ve resisted revealing it, but have decided it’s time. What would you do if you knew that in every opportunity you did certain things, and that if you did those things the probability of winning the deal is very high?

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Are Any of These Your Top LinkedIn Mistakes?

Increase Sales

For the past two weeks in my weekly business column , I have shared five of the top LinkedIn Mistakes I have observed during the last six years. These are not the only ones. Over at another local social media site for Northwest Indiana, I have written to date six articles regarding LinkedIn and how to better use this powerful marketing, business to business networking and prospecting tool to generate quality sales leads and increase sales.

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Sales Amateur or Sales Professional? What are You? | Sales.

The Sales Hunter

Home. About. FREE Resources. Hire Mark. Client List. Testimonials. Client Login. Mark Hunter. Client List. Testimonials. Speaking. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Training. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Blog. FREE Resources. Sales Articles.

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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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Giving — A Break From Selling

A Sales Guy

Meet Rob Sader and his family, he is an active member of this community. He’s been a regular here for awhile. Like most of you, I’ve yet to meet him in person, but I’ve always appreciated his comments and engagement here at A Sales Guy. Rob has beautiful family, two adorable daughters and a rock of a wife. The other day Rob sent me an email asking if I’d help him and his family out.

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Performance Management Friday — Compliance Is Not The Point Of CRM Systems!

Partners in Excellence

There’s always a lot of discussion in the Sales 2.0, CRM worlds about compliance. Millions are invested in new systems–supposedly. There’s a great urge to make sure people are using them, so compliance has become a key topic of discussion in lots of places. Basically compliance is measuring, “are people using the system?” Compliance — at least the way it’s commonly used is absolutely worthless!

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Business to Business Networking Success Is? – Friday’s Editorial

Increase Sales

How does one define business to business networking success? . Credit www.sxc.hu. This week I attended 3 different business to business networking events and upon reflection I began to further evaluate each event specific to my own marketing goals as well as to the bigger picture. In working through this reflective and critical thinking skill process, I realized there existed before, during and after criterion in all events.

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Why Do You Think "Profit" is a Dirty Word? | Sales Motivation and.

The Sales Hunter

Home. About. FREE Resources. Hire Mark. Client List. Testimonials. Client Login. Mark Hunter. Client List. Testimonials. Speaking. Mark’s Insights on SALES MOTIVATION. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Training. Mark’s Insights on PRICING. Mark’s Insights on PROSPECTING. Blog. FREE Resources. Sales Articles.

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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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Great sales strategy – requires a game plan from the top

Sales Training Connection

Sales Strategy. In sales we spend a lot of time and effort in helping sales people do a better job thinking and acting strategically in their accounts. Sales managers establish sales strategy as a coaching priority – sales training departments implement sales training programs that focus exclusively on account strategy. The good news: this is a case where the emphasis is entirely warranted.

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Selling Process Or Buying Process?

Partners in Excellence

My post yesterday, The Secret To Sales Success , stirred up a twitter discussion about whether there is a Selling Process or if everything is about the Buying Process. Since I have a hard time saying my name in 140 characters, I thought I’d move the discussion to the blog, and hope the folks tweeting could follow the discussion here with comments.

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How to Get Clients LINED Up Outside of Your Door, Down the Street and Around the Corner by Alan Boyer

Increase Sales

Your marketing message (think how to get clients), what you say to people in business to business networking, in printed materials, or your website can change your business from one where you have to chase after new clients into one where they chase after you. How to get clients all depends on what you say, and how you say it when someone first meets you, or reads something about you, or something you wrote.

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