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

Alice Heiman

24:44] Cassandra started Fempire to bring powerful women together and promote women leaders. [28:06] At the height of her enterprise sales career, and with two young kids at home, Cassandra had an epiphany for a new software product that would help every B2B sales rep save time, sell more, and crush their quota with partners.

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Is Self Bias impeding how we acquire and retain our Customers?

Babette Ten Haken

First, when many of us experience this professional epiphany, it takes our breath away. As a result, these professionals wait and wait to be recognized for their next promotion or award. As a result, they continue to watch as other, less-qualified candidates are promoted. They seek perfection, rather than risk. Instead of them.

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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. Looking back, about the only selling skill that I really excelled at was product knowledge and I could give one hell of a good demo.

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A CEO Mind-shift for Scaling Growth: An Interview with Henry Schuck

DiscoverOrg Sales

Who are we going to promote next? But as soon as the acquisition happened – the very next week – I had an epiphany: The world of B2B data is filled with poor providers. Two years ago, everything I was focused on was month- or quarter-end. How do we hire more SDRs? Stuff like that.

Scale 113
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Pro Tips on Scaling an Enterprise Sales Organization

Openview

I like promoting from within, but I also like adding people from the outside. Promoting from within creates a culture of ambition and meritocracy, while hiring from outside helps expand your culture. You also want to think about how to evolve your culture. How will a candidate bring a diverse perspective or experience?

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Lori speaks, writes, coaches and trains company leaders on ways to find, recruit, retain, and promote more women in sales and helps women become part of the best profession – B2B sales. I had never quit a job before unless it was due to a promotion or a better opportunity. Get promoted where you are. Time to take notes.

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The complete guide to writing much better marketing emails

Nutshell

Before email marketing was commonplace, marketers used advertisements, fliers, coupons, and other distributed promotions in order to build their audience and reach potential customers. Marketing emails can also map to various tactical goals , like landing attendees for an event, driving blog traffic, promoting a content download, and more.

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