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What's it take to generate leads that fuel your forecast?

Pointclear

Just try to pass them on to your field sales team and you’ll see. Because the chances are pretty low—probably 3% to 4% at best—that any of these names are bonafide opportunities if you are a B2B company with a complex sales process. Is it someone who swiped their badge at the tradeshow you attended last month? They can’t.

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Understanding Sales: A Total and Comprehensive Guide to Unlocking Success

Vengreso

I’ve spent 25 years in the industry, starting at the age of 19 years old when I got my first big break as a telemarketer (now called SDR) at a software organization. In that year, I learned from some of the greatest sales managers that I’m friends with today. .” That sums up the profession in six words!

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Everything you ever wanted to know about MEDDIC & MEDDPICC and never dared ask.

MEDDIC

The way it was born, it was at PTC, that we built really a sales machine with hundreds of really successful salespeople trained this way. They later became VPs at Salesforce at Oracle, at SAP, at different enterprise software companies, and they continued the diffusion. Depending who you’re selling to, how risky it is.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Sales Models and Fundamentals. The Transparency Sale. The Challenger Sale. The New Solution Selling. The Little Red Book of Selling. Unbreakable Laws of Selling. The New Strategic Selling. Agile Selling. Spin Selling.