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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. It is in our targeted accounts or our territory (however that might be found), we find and qualify the opportunities we want to chase.

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Smart Salespeople: Power Network Map

Your Sales Management Guru

During a recent client sales meeting we talked about the power of networking, the need to expand the influence of one’s reach and effective ways to find new and better sales opportunities. If you aren’t doing this now, make it part of your active sales activity planning session. for the first time sales manager.

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Now is The Time to Re-Tool Your Sales Approach

Fill the Funnel

Using tools like Cynocast, Jigsaw, FreshContacts, Kineticast and SalesDialers that automatically take actions including lead identification, phone calls, emails, online presentations, meeting requests and more can be generated automatically and with a scale and pace that have never been available before.

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TSE 1159: Sales From The Street - "The Unicorn Seller"

Sales Evangelist

In Mark Weinberg’s book, The Sales Management Simplified , he pointed out the need for sales leaders to consider what the salesperson did for the previous company. Find out whether they were tasked to find their opportunities or the opportunities were given to them. It will never work.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Huge Ego Behind Every B-to-B Purchase

HeavyHitter Sales

Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors. Posted at 07:44 AM in Sales Techniques | Permalink. Books For Heavy Hitters.

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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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“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.