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Do Your Leads Suck?

No More Cold Calling

We have to change how we talk about sales leads so that we’re looking for the right customers in the right places. Someone who’s downloaded a white paper is not a qualified lead, nor is someone who’s viewed a demo. This kind of thinking is how we get our sales pipelines clogged with cold leads that rarely or never pan out.

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PowerViews with Koka Sexton: How to Leverage Social Media

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Then go on Twitter and post a link to your review, which will likely get picked up by that book’s publishing house. Sales Managers Didn’t Want Their People on Social Media All Day. But in sales, you’re out in the cold if you don’t have a browser open to LinkedIn. Twitter: @kokasexton. LinkedIn is more buttoned up.

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Want to Know Me? Look Me Up!

No More Cold Calling

In fact, 86 percent of business buyers engage in research independent of the sales cycle. Before they make contact with us, prospects have usually checked us out, compared pricing, read a white paper or two, listened to a webinar, and/or viewed a demo. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business'

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The Pipeline ? The REAL Problem with Sales Training

The Pipeline

But I have some of them, and I invite you to download the FREE white paper – registration is not required. Jonathan Farrington is a globally recognized business coach, mentor, author, consultant, and sales strategist, who has guided hundreds of companies and thousands of individuals around the world towards optimum performance levels.

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The Pipeline ? Punk Rock People Management

The Pipeline

The Pipeline Renbor Sales Solutions Inc.s Punk Rock People Management. Stored in Attitude , Business Acumen , Communication , HR Management , Sales Management , e-book , execution. I have just received an advance copy of an unusual book on managing people by the business author and speaker called Peter Cook.

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The Pipeline ? Who's Expectations? ? Sales eXchange ? 119

The Pipeline

Even more so when you consider that the average manager waits much too long to take corrective action. One of the reasons for this is the difference in role expectation between HR and the frontline sales manager. What a sales manager see as desired assertiveness, an HR manager could easily see as aggressive.

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The Pipeline ? ?Did You Just Say??? #2

The Pipeline

This comment was originally posted on Twitter. 2 [link] #news #sales. This comment was originally posted on Twitter. 2 [link] #news #sales. This comment was originally posted on Twitter. " [link] #sales #B2B. This comment was originally posted on Twitter. " [link] #sales #B2B.

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