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Selling And Great Cooking

Partners in Excellence

The other day, I read a great post from David Masover , comparing sales with great cooking. It’s really an outstanding analogy and way to think about selling. She attended the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) to learn–even though she was already an outstanding cook. It was a rigorous 3 year program.

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Apple Fritters and the 10 Keys to a Successful Sales Transformation

Understanding the Sales Force

My wife is a gourmet cook and her food is better tasting and healthier than what the best restaurants serve, so it’s OK that I’m useless and incompetent at cooking and baking. None of that makes them very good at selling, but those scenarios would certainly contribute to ongoing, recurring account revenue.

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Focus On The Sauce

Rob Jolles

I do enjoy watching, however, some of the competitions involving cooking. It was in one of these shows where I got a wonderful lesson in cooking, along with a timely reminder about presenting. One of the contestants had done terrific job of cooking a chicken dish, when guest chef Daniel Boulud said something that was rather amazing.

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Do You Have a Recipe for Sales Management Success?

Anthony Cole Training

I’ve been trying to find a way to tie cooking to sales management. I love to cook (and eat) and I love selling and coaching sales management. Thus my attempt to find another way to explain concepts of sales management: COOKING! I didn’t ruin the cookware. I didn’t burn the food. The house is still standing.

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Cooking With Sales

The Pipeline

They were looking at the cooking and eating habits of Canadians. A key point was that Canadians spend more time watching cooking shows on TV, be it specialized networks or mainstream, than they do cooking. As the topic turned to sales methodology, the VP was very curious and focused on social selling.

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How Your Go-To-Market Strategy Is the Secret Sauce of Sales

Sales and Marketing Management

For others, “secret sauce” designates less a specific concoction, but instead an approach to the craft – a body of experience and intuition that shapes a chef’s strategy for every dish they cook. It’s this second kind of secret sauce that lifts a great chef above a merely good one. A great chef will produce something magical.

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Why Content is of Strategic Relevance and Requires Orchestration and Strategy

Showpad

There are many cooks in the content kitchen, not only marketing. There are many cooks in the content kitchen, not only marketing. Imagine a team of cooks and their chef in a first class restaurant. Furthermore, salespeople still create lots of content on their own which reduces their actual selling time.

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