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What Should You Do When You or Your Company is Disliked in Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

If you are in territory sales, is there a competitor salesperson gunning for you? It wasn't that long ago that Apple hated Microsoft and Microsoft hated Apple. For example, my company, Objective Management Group (OMG) , is universally hated by an entire vertical! Have you taken business away from anyone? Do they hate you?

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5 Habits of the Best Salespeople

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Rick Wong Whether you’re the CEO or a sales representative, you’re a seller. You know that in order for your company to be competitive, you’ve got to continually make new sales. Still, it isn’t enough to just make sales. When I moved to Microsoft, I was able apply the same habits with teams that I managed.

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20 Sales Planning Tools to Boost Sales Productivity and Close More Deals

Hubspot Sales

Sales always has been, and always will be, about closing the deal. But, sales professionals cannot rely on cold calls and haphazard prospect visits if they want to meet their sales goals and make it into the top 10%. Sales Productivity Tools. HubSpot Sales Platform. Gamifier makes sales performance fun.

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 4 Ways Downsized Sales Teams Can Deliver Outsized Returns

Crunchbase

Industry leaders such as Adobe , Microsoft , Google , PayPal and Shopify are making big layoffs, with a large swath of cuts focused on their revenue teams. In January, Salesforce announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce, and it was the sales team that faced heavy losses.

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

Learn why automating your documents is key to sales success. Companies are increasingly implementing technology to bring efficiency to their workforce. Data accessibility aside, teams continuously struggle with manual processes for document generation.

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Sales Onboarding at Hyper-growth Companies: Key learnings from Facebook, Microsoft, Autodesk, HPE, Cloudera, Nutanix and Mindtickle

Mindtickle

This post looks at key takeaways from some of the top companies in Silicon Valley on their sales onboarding plans and experiences. Laine gave us a great overview of how sales onboarding is being revamped at Facebook and how critical it is that it’s aligned with the company’s values of “. Global sales orientation. Sales Bootcamp.

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Sales Onboarding at Hyper-growth Companies: Key learnings from Facebook, Microsoft, Autodesk, HPE, Cloudera, Nutanix and Mindtickle

Mindtickle

This post looks at key takeaways from some of the top companies in Silicon Valley on their sales onboarding plans and experiences. Laine gave us a great overview of how sales onboarding is being revamped at Facebook and how critical it is that it’s aligned with the company’s values of “. Global sales orientation. Sales Bootcamp.