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You Get What You Plan For

The Pipeline

Last week I started these two parts look at planning for a successful sales year. Plans need to reflect a strategy for winning in the real world, and real world continues to evolve. No disrespect, but there is not much difference between a wireless sale and a copier sale. Once you nail that, go further.

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How to Increase Profit Margin: 5 Strategies for Any Business

Hubspot Sales

Every company has its eyes on its bottom line and, in turn, is mindful of its profit margin — the most definitive metric of how successful your sales efforts are, relative to your expenses. Audit your strategies to identify inefficiency. Find gaps in your sales process where a disproportionate number of prospects fall off.

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How an NFC Payment Works & Why More Businesses Are Accepting Them

Hubspot Sales

NFC is derived from RFID (radio-frequency identification), a wireless communication system that uses radio waves at different frequencies to transfer data. NFC and RFID are similar in that they are both wireless technologies. Interested in building an online payment strategy for your website or online business instead?

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Lie To Me Like Everyone Else Does

The Pipeline

Revenue, finding it, winning it keeping it, is more than sales, and certainly more than just one says. Winning growing and retaining clients (the source of revenue), may be centered around sales, but involves other key groups. We all know empathy is central to interactions and by extension sales. Empathy Is Not Just A Word.

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Top 10 Tips for Drama-Free Virtual Sales Meetings

Allego

There are a lot of balls to keep in the air and the price of dropping any of them could be a lost sale. Now that 80% of sales engagements are digital, sellers must prepare before they go “on stage.”. Think of sales activities as happening either “frontstage” of “backstage.”. Have a backup strategy. GoToMeeting.

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What Is Captive Product Pricing?

Hubspot Sales

The companies you buy from know that you need both the film and the games to make these products work, so they sell the core product, the Xbox or film camera, separate from the accessory product, games or camera film, in order to inspire more sales. Captive product pricing can boost sales and increase profit margins.

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An Empty Wagon – Sales eXchange 194

The Pipeline

Well, I can tell you that there are a lot of empty wagons when it comes to sales and sellers, usually in lack of substance or delivering on the hype. This unnecessarily extends the length of their sale cycle, or kills the sale all together.

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