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Shared Mediocrity – Sales eXchange 178 – A Question To Sales Leaders

The Pipeline

Doesn’t matter if I am working with software companies, wireless, service providers, you name it, it is much the same. I once had someone who was on their third tour with the company I was training and had done stints with three other. The journeymen will underperform, as will the territory, but a bigger cost is opportunity cost.

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Shared Mediocrity – Sales eXchange 178 – A Question To Sales Leaders

The Pipeline

Doesn’t matter if I am working with software companies, wireless, service providers, you name it, it is much the same. I once had someone who was on their third tour with the company I was training and had done stints with three other. The journeymen will underperform, as will the territory, but a bigger cost is opportunity cost.

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Feedback to millennial sales reps – more is better!

Sales Training Connection

If, as demanded by Millennials, more coaching and feedback is going to take place, many of the traditional approaches are simply too time consuming in a world with seemingly unending demands on sales managers time and geographically scattered territories. . ©2011 Sales Horizons, LLC .

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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. Forms on the Fly.

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Guest Article: Agile Field Sales Teams are the New Winners

Jonathan Farrington

For example, if sales management gets several reports about a new competitive promotion in a particular territory during the course of a morning, they can put together counter measures for reps to implement the same day. This approach to Agile Field Sales merges the benefits to reps and management.

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The Sales Association: Cold Calling Lives

The Sales Association

There is so much training and support for people who conduct sales face to face, but what about the phone? Case Study We do phone sales training with a Fortune 50 wireless telecom client that has a large SMB field sales team in the Midwest. Much of the territory is sparsely populated with businesses far apart from each other.

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The Pipeline ? Beware The Mixed Message ? Sales eXchange ? 138

The Pipeline

For example, one of the large wireless carriers here in Canada is part of a larger media company, or conglomerate, they own TV outlets and magazines. In this case it will have an impact on my view when it comes to renewing my wireless agreement. Sales Training. Territory Alignment. Dave Kahle – Sales Training.

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