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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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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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Small Business Sales Game Changer

Fill the Funnel

Radius launches first SMB sales intelligence tool! Dun & Bradstreet, Jigsaw/Data.com and other well known names due a commendable job of providing this information for larger companies but fail miserably for small businesses. Radius provides the most comprehensive sales intelligence available for U.S. small business.

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How A Seagull Changed My Career and Taught Me Twelve Home Truths

Bernadette McClelland

I was a single mum to a one year old baby girl and had also not long been given a sales trainee role under sufferance, instantly recognising deep down inside, that a huge alignment piece to this jigsaw I had wanted to lay out in front of me, was missing. I had not long gone through a divorce that was quite harrowing and confusing.

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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. It was both challenging and huge fun.

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Small Business Sales Prospecting Just Got Much Easier

Fill the Funnel

Dun & Bradstreet, Jigsaw/Data.com and other well-known names do a commendable job of providing this information for larger companies but are much less productive for small businesses. Radius provides the first sales intelligence web tool exclusively focused on the SMB market, “ a huge market – 65% of the U.S. small business.

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Account-Based Customer Success: The Refrain Remains the Same

DiscoverOrg Sales

I had a special opportunity to learn Sales early on from a mentor that practiced many of the non-technology tenets of ABE – accounting for multiple stakeholders, personalizing messages by function and role, coordinating multi-modal follow-up as an integrated account plan, all against a named list of target – ideal – accounts.

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