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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 pipeline/funnel is the tool we use to track all of these things. And the reality is, often, there are a lot of pieces missing.

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Applying Sales 2.0 in Real Life

Sales 2.0

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, I know you are a fan of Sales 2.0 Jorge: It’s interesting because I never considered it Social Selling when I started to use social media tools to sell.

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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? 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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2 Sales Tools and Productivity Webinars on December 13th

Fill the Funnel

As you wrap-up what I hope was a successful 2012 and begin preparation for 2013, I think you will find some great ideas about sales tools during two Webinars to register for. Minimize Your Workload and Maximize Your Sales with Web Tool Automation. Which web tools deliver results for each task.

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A Powerful Weapon for Hunters

SBI

Whether it’s Hoover’s, JigSaw, the white or yellow pages, or association directories, there are hunting grounds where leads are abundant. ListGrabber is one of several weapons in eGrabber’s arsenal (they also have Addressgrabber, LeadGrabber, LeadResearch and other specialized lead capture tools).

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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. This situation is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle that doesn’t fit. What did they do for the competitor? It will never work.

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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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