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The Easiest Person To Lie To Is Yourself

The Pipeline

Beyond specific activities, this needs to include an overall annual territory plan; key account plans; prospecting plans; and most importantly at a minimum monthly activity plans, although it would not kill you to have one that continuously covers the next two weeks. Save that for January, when you abandon your New Year’s resolution.

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3 Things Some Pundits Won’t Tell you about Cold Calling – Part 2

The Pipeline

I often ask the cold calling is dead crowd, what advice they would give a young and/or new territory rep, new to a copier, transport, wireless, telco, MRO, or other similar company, not the 10 years veteran, but brand new rep: cold call or not? To exclude one, is to limit your success.

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NAICS Code Directory for Sales and Marketing Teams

Zoominfo

Gaining a more accurate, granular view of the submarkets within each category can help ensure correct lead routing, territory planning, messaging, and positioning. 333514 Special Die & Tool, Die Set, Jig, & Fixture Manufacturing. 333515 Cutting Tool & Machine Tool Accessory Manufacturing. What are NAICS Codes?

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NAICS Code Directory for Sales and Marketing Teams

Zoominfo

Gaining a more accurate, granular view of the submarkets within each category can help ensure correct lead routing, territory planning, messaging, and positioning. Since many traditional vendors also have such poor data accuracy, there is still much to be desired. Search the NAICS Code Directory What are NAICS Codes?

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Guest Post: Agile Sales – converting managers from bureaucrats to coaches

Jonathan Farrington

This desire to be connected, and the availability of powerful Smartphones connected over fast wireless networks has laid the groundwork for a rapidly emerging trend in sales management; a fundamental shift to in the moment management of agile field forces powered by real-time, location based activity streams. Ubiquitous Mobile Access.

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Guest Article: Agile Field Sales Teams are the New Winners

Jonathan Farrington

Emerging tools that require little or no IT resources to implement and run, enable sales management to examine, assess and adapt their tactics in direct response to what they see going on in the field. develops and markets Salespod and SalespodExpress Agile Field Sales tools for managing Outside Sales and Marketing teams.

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Part 2: 21st Century Selling: Unlocking the Power of Mobile Devices to Improve Performance & Grow Sales

The Brooks Group

Before locking on a device or technology, they set to first execute a sales segmentation exercise to quantitatively measure the number of prospects in a given reps territory. Reps typically waited 3-5 business days (or longer) to deliver a demo reel to the prospective advertiser.