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3 Reasons to Market Your Small Business Like A Drug Dealer

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Andrew Frazier You need to market your small business like a drug dealer. It does until you take a closer look at their marketing and sales strategy. Small business owners can learn a lot from analyzing what drug dealers do in terms of defining their target market, performing marketing activities, and building relationships.

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How to Make Your Sales Training More Inclusive, According to HubSpot's Inclusion Experts

Hubspot Sales

Whether you’re welcoming a new person to your sales team or helping develop skills among your current staff, sales training is a very important part of fostering a successful sales program. Studies show that sales teams who complete highly-rated sales training programs see a 10% higher win rate and are at least 10% more likely to hit quota.

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Setting Your Strategic Direction

Sales and Marketing Management

Research out of Harvard Business School over a 10-year period showed that companies with clearly defined and well-articulated strategies outperformed their counterparts, on average, by 304 percent in profit margin, 332 percent in total sales and 833 percent in total return to shareholders. What are you trying to achieve?

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A Rep’s Scream For Help

The Pipeline

While not daily, on a regular basis over the last 12 years I have been called by VP’s of Sales who were extremely disappointed in the training delivered to their team by another provider. (It Unfortunately, it was not the sales person who showed up to do the training, but a “Big Box certified independent trainer”.

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The 6 Worst Decisions Sales Leaders Make

SBI Growth

As a bonus, you can click here to receive an exercise developed especially for an SBI client. You have to charge more to achieve the desired profit margin. Ignoring Content Marketing. Take the simple example of Marketing Automation technology. However, Jim has not trained his team to follow a hiring process.

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Tips for Building Material Sellers

Janek Performance Group

“You don’t understand what it’s like to sell building material supplies in this market,” a sales rep recently grumbled. I replied that his company is a smaller supplier in the market. Early in my sales training career, I worked with an electronic distributor. ” the sales rep said.

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The Difference Between a VP of Sales and a CRO

Sales Hacker

From B2C consumer-focused tech to the next B2B enterprise cloud giants, B2B, and B2C technology companies are springing up left and right and sprinting toward multi-billion dollar valuations (whether on the private or public markets) faster than ever. Participating in account or deal strategy, whitespace exercises, and executive alignments.

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