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My Favorite Closing Line

Mr. Inside Sales

Smart companies are picking these up now, while they’re available, and not waiting until they go on back order. But let’s back up to that initial order phrase: “Here’s what I recommend we do…” There are many variations on this, like: “Here’s what my best clients are doing right now…”. “My Here’s what I recommend you do…”.

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Leveraging Price Ratio To Win The Right Deals

The Pipeline

In the past I have shared the ”Actionable Definition” of Value ; it centers the conversation, the sale, on the buyer’s objectives, which gives one the opportunity to leverage the give and take between price, value and expectations. They are willing to give up “the right little bit” of service for a greater savings.

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Get It Together! Marketing and Sales Collaboration That WORKS

The Pipeline

Instead of finding a positive solution to honor the common goal of growing the company, the two teams debate who is right. Smart companies today realize the problems of communication breakdown between sales and marketing teams. It’s unproductive…but it doesn’t have to work this way. It’s costing them money.

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Having Too Many Choices Can Cost You Plenty

Engage Selling

Smart companies today measure their lead acquisition cost, their marketing costs and their sales cost. But what about the overall cost to serve your customer? That often gets overlooked. And yet that’s precisely where you can see both the risk … Read More »

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21 Salespeople Reveal the Worst Sales Advice They Ever Got

Hubspot Sales

If you're in a company where they won't promote you, it is probably because of you -- you are not doing something required of you that will result in a promotion. Smart companies always want to keep good people. If they aren't promoting you, then the next company won't promote you either. Sell through the objection.”.

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Sales is Storytelling. Marketing is Storytelling. Business is Storytelling.

Sales and Marketing Management

In theory, a veteran salesperson could have an endless supply of stories, but Pollard recommends “niching” down to three strong stories that address the primary customer challenges or the most common customer objections and learn them frontward and backward. Preparation and practice are vital.

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Successful companies don’t create their own advertising

Eyeful Presentations

Now the objects of my desire are grown up things like audio equipment, furniture and (shudder) lawnmowers but the effect is the same – aspirational, engaged and willing to nag mercilessly until the product is purchased. Invaluable….