Partners in Excellence

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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. To find new deals, we have to be prospecting and the account/territory plan focuses on the most productive areas in which to prospect.

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Jigsaw Top of Funnel Territories Maximizer 68

Sales 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

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 Jorge: It’s interesting because I never considered it Social Selling when I started to use social media tools to sell. You are running a sales/biz dev effort now.

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Hiring Jigsaw Social Media Cold Calling 384

Partners in Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2019

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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Jigsaw Hotels Sales Leadership Proposal 84

SalesLoft

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Sales teams are piecing together diverse technologies across lead generation, prospecting, deal closing, and conversations. All the possible data, analyses, and metrics are coming from different tools in different formats with different levels of trust, making the big picture feel like a jigsaw puzzle with lots of pieces missing.

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Data Sales Process Jigsaw Lead Rank 52

Fill the Funnel

JUNE 2, 2011

Is it time to re-tool your sales approach? Re-tooling has been defined as: to adjust, optimize, and to rebuild. 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.

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Tools Scale Jigsaw Top of Funnel 79

SBI

JULY 7, 2010

If you’ve got a hunting territory, or you both hunt and farm for prospects, then you spend great effort searching for new sources of leads. And there’s no better place than the Web for coming upon a large herd of prospects gathered in one place. I’m talking about online directories.

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Hoovers Jigsaw Lead Capture Territories 57

Sales Evangelist

AUGUST 12, 2019

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. TopSeller What if the person you hire hates prospecting? This situation is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle that doesn’t fit. It will never work.

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Hiring Jigsaw Sales Course 40