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Small Business Mastery: Turning Challenges into Opportunities

Pipeliner

Like part-time roles, and the necessity of preparing backups for critical positions through cross-training. The Revelations of a Time Audit John Nieuwenburg introduced the eye-opening practice of a time audit, tracking every 15 minutes of your day for a week. The conversation also touched on the value of flexible staffing solutions.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Charles Green

Partners in Excellence

And to think we would find such an opportunity in, of all places, selling? Then came the day of my first “sales” opportunity. Later revelations included referring a lead to a seller more appropriate for the client, even including a competitor; such selfless actions lead to positive referrals and future sales.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: Innovating from the Top: How a Former CMO Revitalized a Company as CEO (Ep107)

Alice Heiman

Harris shared her riveting journey of steering the company through the COVID-19 pandemic and moving from 100% in-person training to 100% online training basically overnight, revealing not only the challenges faced but also the exact strategies she implemented to drive rapid growth and adapt to a rapidly changing business landscape.

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Sales Talk for CEOs: CEOs on Social Media: A Direct Correlation to Increased Revenue (Ep111)

Alice Heiman

In the engaging world of social media, CEOs find themselves at a crossroads between opportunity and caution. Embracing Training and Defining Roles One of the first hurdles to overcome is the fear of the unknown and the potential for missteps online.

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“The Joy Of Selling…,” Have We Lost It?

Partners in Excellence

” Whether it’s bad prospecting, bad Social Channel interactions, bad selling, weak sales management, ineffective training, and so forth. I had a single very large account, my job was to prospect within that account, finding new opportunities to sell and grow our relationship. It was both challenging and huge fun.

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Our Job Is Helping The Customer, But All We Do Is Focus On Beating The Competition….

Partners in Excellence

We train our people in our products and their superiority. We train our people in competitive differentiation and objection handling. ” We have trained/or let our customers figure out what their problem and and how they want to solve it. ” We revel in this strategy. Think of the lost opportunity!

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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. Use your SKO time to train your sellers how to be better at selling; otherwise scrap the meeting. The surprising thing is that this is NOT a new revelation.

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