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Virtual Selling Is Not The Same Thing As Digital Buying

Partners in Excellence

According to much research and too many pundits on social media, the future of selling is virtual–or perhaps hybrid. But we are sharpening our virtual selling skills. ” Some in marketing and sales revel at this shift in buying behaviors. Well yes, kind of, but we are really missing the point.

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Your Sales Kick-Off Meetings Are a Waste of Time!

Igniting Sales Transformation

An opportunity to review what worked and what didn’t in the prior year while also creating the positive momentum needed to achieve sales goals for the year ahead. That doesn’t even account for event planning costs, or the lost opportunity cost due to non-selling time while salespeople attend the event.

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20.5 Attitude Gems For You To Read And Study | Jeffrey Gitomer.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Every obstacle presents an opportunity, if you’re looking for it. “Revel” and “lament” are choices. It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. Sound familiar? Attitude manifests itself in your RESPONSE to events. Your choices. Hard work makes luck. Categories.

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Freeing Up “Time To Sell” Is BS!

Partners in Excellence

Great sales people are constantly looking for customers by prospecting, filling their pipelines with high quality opportunities, helping the customer navigate their buying cycle. Our ideal is they spend 100% of their time engaged with customers, selling. He’s bang on with this, but this is an unfortunate, often seductive reality.

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Chally on Challenger – “Defining sales role requirements is not as simple as comparing apples to oranges!”

Jonathan Farrington

Since the inception of the modern day sales force some 100+ years ago by John Patterson, the founder/leader of (NCR) National Cash Register, the sales profession has been presented with a constant stream of revelations introducing the latest in “trends and techniques” that are needed to compete and SELL successfully in the changing marketplace.

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The Top 52 Sales Books Every Sales Pro Should Read

Gong.io

It’s definitely not a selling skills book. This is another sales book that’s less a book about selling skills and more a book about both product marketing and sales management. It’s more of a sales management book (and one of the best ones out there, in my opinion). Conversations That Win the Complex Sale.