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Setting Your Strategic Direction

Sales and Marketing Management

Research out of Harvard Business School over a 10-year period showed that companies with clearly defined and well-articulated strategies outperformed their counterparts, on average, by 304 percent in profit margin, 332 percent in total sales and 833 percent in total return to shareholders.

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Improve Sales Forecasting to Improve Sales Performance?

Anthony Cole Training

I read the white paper, and it clearly identified common problems with CRM tools such as SalesForce.com, ACT and other pipeline management tools. Make sure that your pipeline management tool mirrors your sales process and that prospects are either moving through the sales steps or moving out. Workshop.' Goal Worksheet.

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Making the Most of Regional Pricing Meetings

Distribution Pricing Journal

Providing Training and Guidance Even though web conferencing tools have made huge strides in the last few years, nothing beats face-to-face meetings for training and guidance. You can show branch managers and their reps how to get data, interpret results and apply analytics in ways that boost margins and close rates.

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How to Compensate Structure Real Estate Teams Effectively

LeadFuze

We will also discuss how providing value-added support like administrative assistance and sales enabling tools such as AI technology can boost agents’ earnings while differentiating your agency in the competitive real estate industry. Gotta keep those agents motivated and the profit margins protected. Sharing is caring, right?

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The Pipeline ? Win The Sale Without Compromising on Price

The Pipeline

In these times of shrinking margins and diminishing returns, Mark’s insights will change the way you think about discounting, price, negotiating, and, above all, the all-important concept of value. Sales Tool. Stored in Attitude , Book Notice , Price , Proactive , Sales Leadership , Sales Success , Sales Technique , execution.

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Can a Multigenerational Workforce be a Collaboration Sandbox?

Babette Ten Haken

Looking for a dynamic speaker for a keynote or workshop focused on overcoming professional intimidation and Us versus Them workplace mindset? Discover when, where, how and why employees are marginalized and excluded because of perceived shortcomings (including lack of generational credibility and level of education). Contact me.

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When Professional Elitism becomes a divisive Workplace Force

Babette Ten Haken

Or, business colleagues marginalize or completely avoid STEM colleagues during meetings, primarily because STEM colleagues intimidate the heck out of them. Engage me to speak or conduct an interactive workshop at your next corporate or association event. Babette’s playbook of collaboration tools, Do YOU Mean Business? ,

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