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The Missing Key Element to Sales Success

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Rory Christian According to IDC , despite a "typical" $1 billion company spending a large amount of resources devoted to training for customer-facing people, poor sales enablement results in around $14 million of wasted sales and marketing expenses, and $100 million in lost sales opportunities. What would you include?

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The Sale Happens In The Follow-Up

Women Sales Pros

5 Things You Need To Know Have you ever had that sales call? That sales call that goes so well. Sales cycles are longer, great calls go dark and the more it happens the more you are doubting your sales skills. As a sale professional you need to realize it takes more skill than ever to make a sale.

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5 Challenges Keeping Sales Leaders Up at Night and What They’re Doing About It

SalesLoft

The sales industry is advancing more quickly than ever before. . These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included. These changes are positive, but now sales leaders have new challenges that are keeping them up at night – myself included.

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How to Turn Your Company Into a Referral Machine

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Matt Kamp For B2B sales teams, referrals are worth their weight in gold. When customers or other companies refer people to you, your company is viewed as more trustworthy in front of those leads, and because of that trust, you can expect a faster – and more successful – sales cycle. That’s a huge jump.

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Four Reasons Your Sales Training Fails

Braveheart Sales

Have you spent money on sales training without seeing rewards? Many sales training organizations focus on tactics and strategies only. And establishing a sequential flow to any sales conversation is critical. These all make complete sense within the framework of a sales workshop or a sales kick-off.

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Sales Tips: Accelerating Sales and Buying Cycles

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: How to Accelerate Sales and Buying Cycles. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In early September you sign an agreement with ABC Energy Inc. Your response: Be here with the furnace next week or I’ll call the BCD Energy Company!

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How To Recession Proof Your Business

Women Sales Pros

So rather than wasting that valuable energy on trying to stop something you can’t, why don’t you shift your energy and position yourself to succeed no matter what this economy does. As business owners and sales professionals, you get so focused on what is happening inside your business, that you forget to focus external.

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