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How to Craft a Proposal that Won’t Get Rejected

The Center for Sales Strategy

I had an epiphany pretty early in my sales career. "The end depends on the beginning (and everything in between).". Yes, we have heard this a thousand times, but no truer words have been said when it comes to developing proposals. I had been on a sales call to a restaurant, and they asked for a proposal.

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Content Marketing May Be Your Sales Achilles Heel

Increase Sales

Last month I had an epiphany when listening to Ari Galper ask this question about content marketing: If you are providing the answer for free in your postings, why would anyone buy from you? Now another epiphany happened. How many times have you watched others in the audience shaking their head in agreement?

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Lead Nurturing: Triple Your Marketing Return

Pointclear

In the last blog in this series we discussed how to keep leads from being ignored and going into a black hole by using something I call the judicial branch. Today we will discuss how lead nurturing can triple the return on most marketing campaigns: Nurturing is essential for successful lead generation—both inbound and outbound.

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Managers, Experiencing Coaching Resistance? How To (Re) Introduce Coaching To Your Team That Creates Buy In and a Safe Environment for Employees – And For You. Part One

Keith Rosen

However, there’s another population of managers who not only see the value of coaching their team but also realize how important it is to deliver effective coaching, which means learning how to do it right. Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows.

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Big Ego Sales Managers and Small Business Owners Are Still Too Many

Increase Sales

When she asked me my opinion as how to explain this poor sales leadership behavior, I suggested that this particular customer was viewed differently. The small business owner will have an epiphany. Does this behavior really make sense? Does this behavior inspire continued customer loyalty?

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Managers, Experiencing Coaching Resistance? How To (Re) Introduce Coaching To Your Team That Creates Buy In and a Safe Environment for Employees – And For You. Part One

Keith Rosen

However, there’s another population of managers who not only see the value of coaching their team but also realize how important it is to deliver effective coaching, which means learning how to do it right. Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows.

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Managers, Experiencing Coaching Resistance? How To (Re) Introduce Coaching To Your Team That Creates Buy In and a Safe Environment for Employees – And For You. Part One

Keith Rosen

However, there’s another population of managers who not only see the value of coaching their team but also realize how important it is to deliver effective coaching, which means learning how to do it right. ” Given this insight, some comments and questions that follow in the wake of this epiphany are as follows.