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[Missed Connections]: December Referral Selling Insights

No More Cold Calling

For more ideas to make 2015 your best sales year ever, check out what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month: 4 Ways to Get Past the Gatekeeper (No Tricks Required) Gatekeepers are valuable to the executives whose time and energy they protect, but not to you, at least not until you’ve developed a relationship with them.

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[Missed Connections]: Referral Selling Insights from February

No More Cold Calling

But that almost never happens, because CEOs and other senior decision-makers have a powerful weapon at their disposal—their trusty gatekeepers. The #1 Sales Management Problem You Can Fix. But those methods will only treat the symptoms, not the real sales management problem: a lack of proper planning. Absolutely!

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How Sales Configurators Are Ushering In a New Age of Selling

Cincom Smart Selling

Sales automation is driven by selling tools like customer portals, ecommerce websites, sales configurators and guided selling software. CPQ is the vital link between the sales rep and the experts at corporate. Selling Tools for Sales Automation. In the old days, Sales had a product they wished to sell.

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4 Skills Sales Reps Need to Get the Most Out of ConnectAndSell

ExecVision

Use CAS as an incentive for reps to improve their conversion rates. Good sales skills or the lack thereof in the first steps of the sale process are only amplified by sales acceleration platforms. If you’re reps aren’t at the very least average at converting a cold call, don’t give them ConnectAndSell.

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[Part 3] Execute on Account-based Marketing: Value Selling to Stakeholders at Key Accounts

LeveragePoint

Is an individual stakeholder a decision-maker, a key recommender, a champion, an organizer, an evaluator, an influencer, a user or a gatekeeper? Sales management focuses on revenue outcomes and top line growth, tending to have urgency with respect to near term objectives and execution. Gatekeepers. Organizers.

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The ROI of Losing: How to Rethink Loss in Sales

The Spiff Blog

This is a huge missed opportunity— especially since these insights can vastly improve your sales process, identify gaps, and prevent other reps from making the same mistakes. And we learn a lot more from that in how we can incorporate it into our sales process,” says Angela Donato, Mid-market Sales Manager at Spiff.

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Predictable Prospecting – Quick Book Summary

Tenbound

Professional objectives 1- increase the productivity and engagement of sales (measured by average revenue per associate and employee retention rate). 2- “design and deliver high-impact sales training programs” 3- “Manage a network of external training partners.” sales leaders) 2- Gatekeepers: (e.g.,