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10 Unfavorable Selling Conditions That Prevent Sales Success

Understanding the Sales Force

College baseball is in full swing and my wife and I watched our son and his college team play eight games over the past 10 days as they traveled from Orlando, FL, to Saratoga Springs, NY. While one of the sales lessons from this trip comes from baseball, the actual travel generated the other two sales lessons.

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Why We Buy Ourselves First

Bernadette McClelland

He shared how he is new to the country and now that his job takes him out on the road with a lot of travelling, he’d be looking for a reliable tyre supplier in the future he could trust. Tyre Guy not only found a new client, he also sold a set of tyres at higher margin for exactly the same amount of work.

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Boosting Margin with Sales Tools

Cincom Smart Selling

I’m not talking about supply or production cost, I’m talking about paying for the process of selling things —the cost of the person, their phone, their software, their travel, their lunches and most of all, their time. Consider that a 1% reduction on the expense line shows up as a 4% increase in margin on the profit line.

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Confusing Journey With Destination

The Pipeline

There was actually one point where they talked about have to traverse a winding mountain side road, but again the focus was not the means of travel, but the experience and life changing experiences and memories. There is a subtle lesson for sellers in the above example. You can look at this in the following way.

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Will We Ever Meet Again?

Sales and Marketing Management

Yet just as companies have gained new insights about their work-from-home capabilities, they may also have a vastly different concept of what business travel makes sense and which meetings and conferences are too important to miss. The marginal customer is not going to go back to movie theaters and cruises and Disneyland.

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In The Beginning

The Pipeline

Each day is a building block of the sales cycles you’re currently travelling. I am sorry I don’t buy the customer-centric excuse, always there for them, your high margin customers don’t expect that. So how do you start your day, what do you do in the middle to getting to end you want? Change how You Greet YOUR Day.

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Taking the Lead: Why Q4 Is the Time for Small Businesses to Get Aggressive

Sales and Marketing Management

Many small businesses were operating with extremely low margins before the crisis began, some operating at a loss or only breaking even. It is not uncommon for sales reps to travel around the world to win prospects with face-to-face meetings. B2B Sales Operations Are Changing for Good. Reevaluate Primary Targets.