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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: How to Select a Sales Kickoff Meeting.

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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Sales Presentations: Focus on Dominant Buying Motives

The Brooks Group

The average sales presentation consists of 6-8 features or benefits. Is that good or bad? Well, when you consider that 24 hours after your presentation, 39% of your prospects remember only one of them, the answer should be very clear. And the fact that 49% of the time they remember something that you didn't bring up at all makes it even more obvious!

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The ROI of SOA?

The ROI Guy

Several recent research reports indicate that companies are having a hard time tying thier SOA efforts to quantifiable value. We offer the following tools to help assess the value of SOA initiatives to quantify if the returns merit the investment: The ROI from SOA is often elusive, check here to see what value SOA can deliver for you: IBM : [link] TIBCO : [link] Assess your current progression on implementing SOA and SOA best practices: TIBCO (develops a great planning guide customized for your

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How to Keep Your Sales Opportunities Moving

Sales Excellence

'Are the sales opportunities in your current sales pipeline “moving” or “stopped”? It’s really easy to tell the difference. Take a look at your day planner, or personal digital assistant (PDA), or whatever you use to schedule appointments. Do you have a date and time on your calendar for each opportunity when you will next meet or speak to your customer on the phone?

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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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Free Sales Strategy Webinar

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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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: How to Select a Sales Kickoff Meeting Theme

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Top Five Sales Kickoff Mistakes

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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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: When Did We Lose The Deal?

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: A Legend Has Died: Meeting Bill Walsh

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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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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: The Wrong Stuff (Drunken Astronauts.

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: How to Use Intuition to Become a Heavy.

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Joking Around About Price

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: The Customer's Fantasy

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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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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Keep Composure in the Digital Age

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Selling Power Magazine Interview (part 2)

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Selling Power Magazine Interview (part 1)

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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"Coach" Bill Brooks

The Brooks Group

"Coach" Bill Brooks February 6, 1945 - October 27, 2007 We deeply mourn the recent passing of our founder, "Coach" Bill Brooks, but his legacy - his brilliance, his ideas and his energy - will live on here at The Brooks Group. Bill had been battling cancer with characteristic tenacity for the last 18 months. Although he was determined to beat the cancer and get back to the work he loved, Bill took steps during those 18 months to install a sound management structure to ensure The Brooks Group wou

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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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Is there ROI from Windows Vista?

The ROI Guy

This ROI calculator can help determine whether there is ROI for your particular Windows Vista deployment. Using independent research from IDC and WiPro, plus our own metrics, we developed this calculator to see if there is truly value in proposed Windows Vista upgrades. Click here to begin: [link] No registration required. Private / no information stored or saved.

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The Business Value of Virtual Lab Automation

The ROI Guy

If you are an ISV, or even if you are managing an internal application development group, you know that application testing and development labs are inefficient with regard to the number of test systems and managing these systems. Lab systems are usually configured based on the current active development project. Only when a team is actively developing and testing an application is the equipment needed.

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The Business Value of Virtual Desktops

The ROI Guy

Managing desktop PC environments remains costly in most IT environments. First, most PCs are on a schedule to be ripped and replaced every 3 years, requiring a recurring hardware investment and labor to be budgeted to affect the change. Even more so, PCs continue to place a management burden on the IT organization. According to IDC, in a white paper entitled “ The relationship between IT labor costs and best practices for managing the Windows desktop ” , IT labor costs were found in a survey of

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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: The Business Value of Server Virtualization

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Tuesday, September 04, 2007 The Business Value of Server Virtualization One of the key issues in IT today is that normal operating expenses consume way too much of the annual budget – 61% on average in most organizations is

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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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39 Tips for Keeping the Sale on Track

The Brooks Group

Whether you're just getting started or you've been selling for years, it's important to remember sales don't just happen. They're the result of pursuing the right activities at the right time. Keep your selling career on track with this handy checklist of essential sales activities. Pre-Call Planning. Are you talking to qualified prospects? Timing: Are you in front of your prospects when they are ready to buy, not when you need to make a sale?

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Stop Talking Your Way Out of the Sale

The Brooks Group

What does your prospect want to hear about - every imaginable bell and whistle that your product offers or how they can use the product to achieve their goals or solve their specific problems? Chances are you already know the answer. But if you're like many salespeople, you still may not be able to resist the temptation to keep talking until your prospect's eyes glaze over with confusion and boredom.

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The Magic Sentence That Takes The Tension Out Of Your First Meeting

The Brooks Group

OK. Good job! You got the appointment with this important prospect. Now what? You better plan carefully and intelligently. No winging it - you're better than that. You're a professional salesperson - a value resource, a consultant to your prospect, not a product pusher or a data dumper. So - be PREPARED. But how? Start with the critical questions that every prospect wants answered when you show up for a sales call: Who are you?

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The Power of Enthusiasm and Belief

The Brooks Group

Enthusiasm is critical for success in any endeavor. Whether it is to pick up the phone and make one more call after being rejected, recovering from a difficult illness, resurrecting a relationship, handling a disgruntled customer or anything else, enthusiasm is essential. Each of us really do need to get excited about your job and your life. Then it's all about progress and achievement; but how do you get inspired to achieve some apparently overwhelming task?

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Strategic ABM Gifting: A CMO’s Silver Bullet to Engage the Enterprise

Today’s customers are hungry for human connections, but how do you break through the digital noise? How do you connect on a more personal level? A strategic ABM gifting campaign can help. You can target accounts and prospects by sending gifts or direct mail. It will help you stand out from the crowd and increase your chances to connect. Download Sendoso’s complimentary eBook to learn: Effective ways to level up your gifting strategy for the enterprise customers.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: How to Leave a Compelling Voice Mail

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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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Finding the "Bully with the Juice"

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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E-mail overload costs organizations over $5,000 per user per year

The ROI Guy

E-mail has grown to be one of the most important communication and collaboration tools for business. As a result of its utility, according to IDC e-mail volume has doubled over the past 5 years to over 40 billion person to person e-mails daily. Moreover, the volume is expected to continue to grow over 18% in each of the next five years. For the average e-mail user over 30% of their day is now spent on creating, organizing, reading and responding to e-mail, a significant amount of time that could