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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. The sales/buying process and the related opportunity/deal plans are all about the deal. We engage with customers in meetings/calls.

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

HeavyHitter Sales

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. » Verify your Comment.

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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. She has lots of techniques and strategies which help her close deals. This situation is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle that doesn’t fit. This is your dream come true!

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: 2 of the TOP 10 Sales Books

HeavyHitter Sales

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. I struggled a moment.

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

Partners in Excellence

The company business strategy is based on the entire product portfolio, not just part of it. 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.

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