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Sales Reps Not Closing Sales? Try This

No More Cold Calling

This broken link is to blame for sales teams’ biggest closing mistakes. “My This is the frustrated lament I hear regularly from sales leaders. But not closing sales is never the real problem. The problem is that sales reps neglect important activities during earlier stages of the sales process. It’s just a symptom.

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3 Secrets to Setting Sales Meetings with the C-Suite

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mike Schultz, President, RAIN Group Breaking through and setting sales meetings with C-suite buyers is tough. They’re off-the-charts busy, bombarded with sales messages, and gatekeepers keep them well insulated. Yet, many sellers are successful in breaking through and setting initial sales meetings with the C-suite.

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Sales Mgmt: Do your team know how to prospect?

Your Sales Management Guru

Sales Managers: Does Your Team Know How to Prospect? It seems that every client I have worked with over the past 14 years has had a challenge in creating enough leads driven through their sales teams. Last week I was fortunate to read: The Sales Winner’s Handbook by Wendy Weiss, “The Queen of Cold Calling”.

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Preparation and Sales Success

Anthony Cole Training

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Why Sales Leaders Make Sales Call Reluctance Worse (And How to Fix It)

Sales Hacker

Not only is call reluctance prevalent amongst the professional sales world, but it’s also scientifically proven to be caused by three main factors. The incomparable Dave Kurlan, the founder of Objective Management Group, has done amazing work in sales science. All of this is rooted in a desire to be liked by their prospect.

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The Top Ten Changes In Sales Over The Past Ten Years

Bernadette McClelland

Very much like the sales profession. On my return home, I was asked to prepare for an interview and one of the questions was whether I had seen any changes over the past few years in the B2B sales space and if so, what were those changes? Prospects and customers either answered the phone (or pager) or their PA did.

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Virtual Selling – It’s the Same, Yet Different – and Here to Stay

Sell Integrity

By Mike Esterday for the December 2020 edition of Top Sales Magazine. My last column for Top Sales World – in the July 2020 issue – was titled Successful Selling When Your World Turns Upside Down. After: Watch out for self-doubt or negative self-talk about wasting the prospect’s time after the virtual session.