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The Sales Jigsaw Puzzle

Partners in Excellence

Every once in a while, I like to do a jigsaw puzzle. Sometimes, I think selling, and all the things sales people must do to be successful, is something like a jigsaw puzzle. Then there’s the great reward at the end, once all the pieces are in place, you finally see the whole picture and it makes sense.

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High Performance Selling, Putting The Pieces Together

Partners in Excellence

Have you ever put together a jigsaw puzzle? Puzzles are interesting, and they are an intriguing metaphor for sales. Sales is like a very complex jigsaw puzzle. It’s interesting to watch the dynamics of a group of people trying to put together a complex jigsaw puzzle. Recently, I was sitting in a hotel lobby.

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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

I interviewed sales manager, sales person, sales trainer and all around smart guy Jorge Soto. I asked Jorge about how he uses Sales 2.0 We are going to continue to use Linkedin and Twitter for outreach and experiment with some inbound marketing tactics. This week is one of those weeks.

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“The Joy Of Selling…,” Have We Lost It?

Partners in Excellence

” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. I’ve written so much on where we are underperforming our potential as sales professionals, or undeserving out customers. I struggled a moment.

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Smart Salespeople: Power Network Map

Your Sales Management Guru

After discussing the current sales environment, networking, in effective cold calls, lack of experience and a great deal of interactive discussions we created an approach that can immediately change your sales and marketing approach. for the first time sales manager. Ken’s latest book is “SLAMMED!, Acumen Mgmt.

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Sales, You Have To Do The Whole Job, All The Time!

Partners in Excellence

A Plan Based On “Bluebirds” Is Not A Plan The Sales Jigsaw Puzzle The Single Most Important Thing To Drive Sales Hunters And Farmers…… Again. Email me at dabrock at excellenc.com. I’ll be glad to send you a free copy! Related Posts: What’s The Purpose Of Account Planning?

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Now is The Time to Re-Tool Your Sales Approach

Fill the Funnel

Is it time to re-tool your sales approach? With the ongoing advancement of sales and marketing web tools, now is an ideal time to rethink and re-tool your sales process and approach as well as construct a plan on how to leverage these new capabilities. The tools and techniques promoted under the banner of Sales 2.0

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