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Social Communication is not ever Permission to Sell

Babette Ten Haken

Can she connect us up, so we can have a discovery conversation? When you use social communication to request to connect and then immediately ask me to provide free services to you, that is straight up out of order. Recently, I received the following request to connect on LinkedIn. Both socially and professionally.

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Artificial Customer Conversations beget Artificial Customer Experiences

Babette Ten Haken

Listening strategies and tools for the voice of the customer can produce skewed insights. You can end up being off-target, strategically, because of achieving self-focused, artificial goals. To learn more about creating more profitable workforces engaged in business growth and a storytelling culture, take the following actions.

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The Inconsistency of achieving Professional Performance Consistency

Babette Ten Haken

Some employees’ professional performance is consistently up-and-down. Even in the presence of processes and protocols to follow, these professionals do not find value in professional discipline. As a result, they follow processes and protocols in a disciplined manner. There is no middle ground. is available on Amazon.

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Why Business Hustle cannot afford to take a Summer Break

Babette Ten Haken

Then Spring showed up for approximately 24 hours (or less), everything sprung up from the ground, bloomed and leafed out. Or seek follow-up appointments after one cup of coffee or cocktail. Babette’s playbook of collaboration tools, Do YOU Mean Business? , Summer arrived at long last. is available on Amazon.

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Professional Momentum requires a Balanced Start

Babette Ten Haken

Instead, you experience a lot of professional ups and downs. That realization stops the up and down dynamics of what you do in the workplace each day. Even if you are a leader, rather than a follower. Instead, it is all about starting off balanced and then targeting the ups, and the opportunities. Think about it.

SME 58
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How to Build a Sales Training Program & Evaluate Its Impact

BrainShark

That being said, there are tools and best practices you can use to speed up the process. The problem is that a lot of sales training tools only support online tasks (such as video trainings or quiz assessments). set up healthcare), you’ll have to manage that in a separate place from the rest of your training.

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Marketing Accountability: Can Sales Afford Not Knowing the ROI on Marketing Spend?

Sales Hacker

Spontaneous (SME). When leads are drying up, sales calls for a campaign, like showing up at a trade fair or business event. But nobody has any idea about the results, let alone the ROI – and a certain percentage of the leads are not followed up with until they say yes or no to an offer. Organized (corporations).

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