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What Modern Sales Has In Common With Sports

Janek Performance Group

In fact, sales as a profession is quite similar to sports. In this article, we will outline what sales professionals have in common with sports and how they can improve their performance and set new sales records. In every sport you learn the fundamentals first and once those are perfected you develop more advanced skills.

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Do You View Sales As A Sport?

Smooth Sale

Attract the Right Job or Clientele: As I struck out hearing three no’s, I began viewing sales as a sport. But as my mindset started to change to a discovery of the next best strategy, I considered the sports familiar to me. My Story About Sales As A Sport. Your Story About Sales As A Sport. I spoke to everyone as equals.

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When Customer Retention becomes a Sales Spectator Sport

Babette Ten Haken

When customer retention processes become a sanctioned sales spectator sport, everyone suffers. It doesn’t matter whether you sell coffee, the latest App, manufacturing outcome, medical device or software system. Customer retention is a collaborative, cross-functional sport. What could go wrong, post-sale? Ad hoc or proven?

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Growth Is a Team Sport: Why You Should Be Team Selling Today

Hubspot Sales

Or, they might get into the weeds and ask what rate limits are enforced when they make requests to your system, or what your service level agreement is. Problem solving is a team sport. A situation like this is the perfect opportunity to introduce someone from your team with a technical background.

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Five Things We Learned About Leadership From Tom Brady

The Center for Sales Strategy

What he accomplished on Sunday is indeed one of the most profound successes in professional sports as he transformed a young, talented team in Tampa Bay that had been underperforming for years into world champions in one season, learning a new team and a new system all without the benefit of mini camps and preseason games.

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8 Great Sales Enablement Systems

Pipeliner

System One: Hiring. System Two: Training. System Three: Sales/Buying Process. System Four: Goal Setting and Budgeting. System Five: Forecasting. System Six: Performance Metrics. Imagine instead a sport like baseball or football, and the importance of the scoreboard. It all starts here.

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? How to Overcome Adversity and Stay Motivated

Pipeliner

In this podcast episode, John Golden interviews John Register, a former world-class hurdler and Paralympic athlete, about his life and career, including his experience as an athlete, his tragic accident that led to the loss of his leg, and his work with the US Olympic Committee and Paralympic Military Sports Program.