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Was the Easter Sermon About Salespeople?

Understanding the Sales Force

Well was the sermon about salespeople? Back then I attended Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services – the two holiest days of the year – but rarely showed up for Friday night or Saturday morning Sabbath services. They should be reading about sales. No, of course it wasn’t. But it sure as heck could have been.

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Message to Management: Sales Trends in 2022

No More Cold Calling

I understand that predictive analysis tools can be accurate at forecasting business trends and sales performance. Astrologers, business analysts, and sales “experts” all tend to focus on hopeful outcomes that aren’t always grounded in reality. Hopeful outcomes sound like this: Sales and marketing will learn to play nice.

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Taking Us Back—and Bringing us Forward—to a Stable Society

Pipeliner

When sales is successful and beneficial, age-old principles and characteristics are involved. If we go back in time, rediscover these, and bring them forward to be fully applied today, we see that they benefit not only sales and commerce but all of society. Looking Back. In the beginning, it was all about trade.

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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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Personal Branding in Sales: An Introduction

Janek Performance Group

In our digital sales age, we’re seeing increasing attention paid to the idea of personal branding. Although the idea itself is by no means new (a brief history is below), awareness of its importance and value in business – including for sales reps – is now reaching a critical mass of awareness. There’s a problem, however.

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Salespeople: Bring Back the Positive Meaning

Pipeliner

In my last article in this series, we took up the example of a firefighter and the fact that a firefighter is almost always a positive example of their profession. In the same way, a firefighter has a positive reputation in society. One bad sale and the word will spread very quickly. Hiring Salespeople With the Purpose.

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7 Ways To Reduce The Potential Cost Of Losing A Salesperson

MTD Sales Training

I once spoke to a sales manager who was complaining about how many salespeople he had lost in the previous three years. And I didn’t just mean hard cash costs. And I didn’t just mean hard cash costs. High salesperson turnover can have a negative effect on salespeople who stay. He hadn’t.

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