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

Sales Evangelist

Sales from the Street - The Unicorn Seller Jen is the unicorn seller and everyone is enchanted by her rainbow-colored sales skills. As a top-performing sales rep, I was once Jen, too. I know how it feels to be offered something and to be on the receiving end of the decision whether to hire the top-performing sales rep or not.

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

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. 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.

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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. It was both challenging and huge fun.