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Want Productive Sales Meetings? Set Expectations

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As a sales leader, you’ve had your fair share of sales meetings. Think of how much easier sales meetings would be if all parties involved knew exactly what everyone was expecting to gain from them. No confusion of the prospect’s problems or what they may or may not be interested in. Download Now.

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Sales Managers: Think You’re Ready for Referrals?

No More Cold Calling

Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. I’ve been there—given a quota (usually without my input) and a list of client companies, and then told to “go at it” and do whatever it takes to get meetings.

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3 Major Sales Meeting Mistakes

MTD Sales Training

You constantly hear about all of the great and positive things you can do to conduct a successful sales meeting and all of the inspirational tips and motivational tricks you can use to help encourage and train a sales team. So quickly, here are three common mistakes sales managers can make when conducting a sales meeting. #1.

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Eliminating Unproductive Sales Meetings

Janek Performance Group

Most sales reps groan, “Here we go again” at the thought of another sales meeting. Another sales meeting? How much has changed since our last meeting?” Yet again, another hour that will be lost forever once the sales meeting finally concludes. Cost of a Bad Sales Meetings.

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Aristotle Walks Into A Sales Meeting

MEDDIC

It is the documentation of the measured performance and economic impact that your solution creates for existing customers or that it will create for prospects compared to their existing situation (their pain) or the competition’s solution. The main objective of a metric is to turn subjective gains into objective, measurable gains.

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The 3 WORST Practices For Conducting A Successful Sales Meeting

MTD Sales Training

While a good sales meeting can invigorate sales people and increase revenue, a poor sales meeting will cost you more than you can calculate. Incredibly, many sales managers take the structure of a sales meeting for granted. There is no such thing as an ineffective sales meeting.

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How to Create a Sales Prospecting Action Plan

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As a sales leader, it can be a challenge to make sure your team is prospecting efficiently (or at all). That's why we put together something called the Prospecting Action Plan. This action plan puts your sales reps on the right track to ensure proper prospecting practices. Sales conversations. The Mechanics.