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Becoming a Master Networker – Series Intro

Adaptive Business Services

When I first began to write, it was on NetWorks! Since NetWorks! is the home for our professional networking group, and as we strongly believe in all forms of networking … I wanted to start a new educational series toward maximizing those goals. That and I’m addicted to networking. This group, NetWorks!

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Navigating the Future of Partner Selling with Cassandra Gholston (S4:Ep15)

Alice Heiman

Can you imagine saying goodbye to confusing spreadsheets and emails that track partner relationships and sales? Imagine the possibility of your team instantly identifying sales opportunities in your partners’ networks? And this was missionary sales.”

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I Bid Farewell to NetWorks! Boise

Adaptive Business Services

I was going to operate as a quasi-independent sales contractor in the electric sign industry. Along the way, I experienced an epiphany. I launched NetWorks! The post I Bid Farewell to NetWorks! It was 2006 and I was ready to embark on the next phase of my career. No benefits. Great timing.

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7 Ways Salespeople Can Avoid Burnout During Q4

Hubspot Sales

I have several secrets to preventing and avoiding burnout over a 30-year career in sales. Don’t accept the “December” excuse that most people in sales use to get out of real work. I truly seek to help my partners, customers, and network to PIF: Pay it forward. Epiphanies occur to an open mind. 1) Follow the 80/20 rule.

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Do Our Professional Labels create Positive Customer Experiences?

Babette Ten Haken

For starters, think about the last networking event or association meeting attended. Or, the biz card or professional profile on LinkedIn is full of marketing and sales spiel and lingo which appears light-hearted and almost self-deprecating, with pseudo-titles created for what they do. And we love to strut our stuff.

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I’m Not That Good of a Salesperson

Adaptive Business Services

Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to sales manager and until twelve years ago, all I did was manage sales reps. A prospecting epiphany. The business that I went back into was one that I loved but, I had not been in that market, even as a sales manager, for three or four years.

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Companies Must Care How Revenue is Earned

Pipeliner

If you’ve worked inside a sales organization for even a short time, you have probably experienced ethical dissonance. “If That’s how things work in sales. Don’t put all the blame on aggressive, amoral sales reps. The Volkswagen Group generated sales revenue of €202.5 The DM didn’t care because his boss didn’t care.

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