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How Building a Stone Walkway Makes the Case for Sales Process

Understanding the Sales Force

If they were anything like the bottom 56% of all salespeople, who don’t effectively follow a sales process, they would begin with step 4 so that they could quickly get to steps 7-9. Worse, the thing that occurs post presentation is almost always a proposal. But what will you propose?

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Premature Proposals Promote Passive Prospects

SalesProInsider

Why Do Advisors Send Premature Proposals? Would you send us a proposal to review?” After final comments and confirmation of when the proposal will be sent, the conversation is over. After all, they said they WANTED the proposal, so they must be serious, right? Share the proposal with other advisors.

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Do you believe proposals have magic powers?

Sales 2.0

Do you believe proposals have magic powers? But throughout my career Ive observed sales people acting as if proposals do have magical powers. As soon as a buyer shows enough interest to allow us to create a proposal its like a genie has been uncorked from a bottle. You see a proposal is just a document.

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Has your proposal gone to Neverland?

Sales 2.0

Nine-times-out-of-ten the problem is the process you used for selling your product or solution. Whether you know it or not, you have not sold all the key players in the decision-making process on your solution. Whether you know it or not, you have not sold all the key players in the decision-making process on your solution.

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In the Race to Win More Customers, Sales Needs Digital Transformation

Discover the results and why investments in digital transformation and automation are pushing sales teams ahead. Salesforce users were surveyed about the forces shaping today's workplace.

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6-Slide Proposal

KO Advantage Group

The proposal in the sales process is the last moment we get to bridge our relationships from prospects to clients. Why do so many people confuse this document with everything that a proposal shouldn't be, or send it through the worst possible way "I'll email you something". Hey baby, want to get hitched? Your Solution.

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The Customer Focused Sales Process

Partners in Excellence

We’ve long known (whether we use it or not) about the “sales process.” ” Virtually every organization has some variant of a sales process with stages we move through and, possibly, critical activities we should be executing within each stage. How do we show up where the customer is showing up?

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7 Must-Have Automated Documents for Sales Success

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