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Should You “Wing It” or Have A Structured Sales Interaction?

MTD Sales Training

In a canned script, I am referring to the old-fashioned, smile-and-dial era, word-for-word, rehearsed, “ Pitch.” Such was a primary tool of sales people, in particular telemarketers, years ago. MTD Sales Training. Perhaps you need to uncover more about the current contract the prospect has with a competitor. Planned VS Canned.

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You Can’t Put in What God Left Out … and Other Important Things Learned in Business and Life

Pointclear

Dan McDade: Yes, but I still always thought it was ironic that while they were railroading me out the door, they valued me enough to ask me to stay for a year, and I did everything I could to help them be successful, including training my replacement, who ended up lasting about six weeks, but that's another story. You're absolutely right.

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PowerViews with Carlos Hidalgo: A Holistic Approach to Driving the Demand Process

Pointclear

The core challenge is really driving that demand process through the organization which is a holistic approach of people, process, content and technology—and having marketing and sales work in a collaborative fashion in each of those areas. That also includes common metrics and objectives.”. I think that it’s the way that we’re using them.

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An Open Letter to Social Sellers Everywhere

Tony Hughes

Don't just install it, train your people on it thoroughly, weekly and quarterly. When I train sales people I train them to execute. Why not always build in some key takeaways on sales process, frameworks, methodologies, syllabi and good old fashioned roll-up-your-sleeves training into the mix? Explain more.