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It’s summer and that means vacations! When you go on yours, don’t use the “out-of-office” setting on your voicemail and email. You want to seize opportunities to monitor your voicemail and email for potential leads! Check out the video to see what I mean: For the month of June, Amazon has the Kindle version […]. Blog Sales Motivation sales sales motivation sales tips summer sales MORE
Every day I have a conversation with someone who isn’t where they want to be in their life or their career say to me, “I know. . I know, I need to make more calls. I know, I need to read more books. I know, I need to blog, (or blog more). I know, I need to use social media. I know, I need to learn more about my customer business. I know, I need to ask more questions. I know, I need to start talking less. I know, I need to build more offline relationships. MORE
In my last Bits and Pieces article , I referred to a series of articles I’d written about applying manufacturing and lean techniques to sales and marketing. It was quite a long series, but I’ve had a lot of interest in it. I’ve consolidated the series into an eBook — What Can Sales Learn From Lean Manufacturing ? MORE
Have you ever had to work with someone whose negative and difficult personality impacted productivity and caused additional stress? Here’s a strategy to turnaround destructive behavior and a caustic attitude to make a toxic person a model employee. MORE
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For 12 years, I taught the subject of “Personal Selling” as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Maryland. A textbook was required in class by the academic-industrial complex, and once in awhile I actually used it–often to highlight the crazy ideas that PhD.s MORE
Success won’t come easily. And not because you’re not smart enough or strong enough. Not because you don’t want it bad enough. Success hurts because you hurt. You’re flawed. For every massive strength , you have an equally magnificent weakness. A flaw so all-consuming that at times it can seem completely debilitating. It takes over your performance, swallowing up anything good or positive in its way. It might be an addiction. An overdeveloped vice. MORE
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Pipeliner
JUNE 25, 2017
For 12 years, I taught the subject of “Personal Selling” as an adjunct professor at Loyola University Maryland. A textbook was required in class by the academic-industrial complex, and once in awhile I actually used it–often to highlight the crazy ideas that PhD.s
Fill the Funnel
JUNE 26, 2017
The most effective lead generation method right now incorporates video. In order to stand out, viewers want to see a high-quality, jaw-dropping video and say WOW!
A Sales Guy
JUNE 24, 2017
Ego is a silent killer of sales and marketing teams. Our incessant compunction to talk about ourselves, our products and our accolades is crushing our ability to connect with our prospects and deliver valuable customer-centric information. No one gives a s**t about you or your company.
Sales Benchmark Index
JUNE 25, 2017
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Sales Benchmark Index
JUNE 24, 2017
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Pipeliner
JUNE 24, 2017
Would you like to have more customers, web visitors opting in, and more “Buy Now” button clicks? If so, do like Hollywood–use stories to sell products and services. You don’t have to think long about it for it to make sense.
The Sales Blog
JUNE 25, 2017
The idea of challenging your clients and prospective clients with an insight, something they need to think about and act upon, is a powerful idea made popular by Matt Dixon and Brent Adamson of CEB (Now Gartner). The idea holds true because if you are going to be a trusted advisor, you are going to need the advice that makes up exactly half of that recipe.
Your Sales Management Guru
JUNE 26, 2017
First Half of the Year is Over! Steps to take to Ensure Success. It’s a wrap. But everything must continue to move forward with increased levels of urgency. In many situations cash flow is tighter, pipelines have been impacted and sales cycles have grown longer. That’s the reality, but as sales leaders and executives we need to take this week to reflect on the first half: “ what went better than expected, what things didn’t work?”
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The Productivity Pro
JUNE 26, 2017
Many of the most creative, productive conversations I’ve ever had started as spontaneous, unplanned interruptions. Sometimes we need to interrupt others if we have a customer on the line and need a fast response.
Keith Rosen
JUNE 24, 2017
Have you ever had to work with someone whose negative and difficult personality impacted productivity and caused additional stress? Here’s a strategy to turnaround destructive behavior and a caustic attitude to make a toxic person a model employee.
The Pipeline
JUNE 24, 2017
What You Don’t Know about Discovery that Kills Deals. Why should the kids be the only ones who benefit from camp? Here is your invitation to attend a camp you can enjoy that also leads to better sales and selling. THIS AIN’T NO WEBINAR! This live coaching based on real discover calls.
Babette Ten Haken
JUNE 26, 2017
The transactional table stakes for conducting IIoT (industrial Internet of Things) business defines customers’ minimum viable expectations from a vendor, supplier or consultant. Are you are a large enterprise, a startup, or one of many micro- and small businesses serving the IIoT space?
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A Sales Guy
JUNE 26, 2017
On this lesson of #TaughtLeaders we will get schooled by Shama Hyder, a web and TV personality, a bestselling author, and the award-winning CEO of The Marketing Zen Group—a global online marketing and digital PR company.
Dan Waldschmidt
JUNE 24, 2017
Born in the heart of Switzerland surrounded by the Swiss Alps, Dick Williams knew what it meant to live the “good life”. He never had to worry about how he’d pay for his education: his parents paid for a private tutor at a Swiss boarding school, teaching him to speak fluent French & German. He never had to worry about “getting his name out there”. He was born to Charles Duane Williams, the founding member of the International Tennis Federation — and direct descendent of Benjamin Franklin.
Customer Centric Selling
JUNE 26, 2017
Sales Tips: Best Practices for Handling Sales Proposals. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling®.
The Sales Hunter
JUNE 25, 2017
It’s summer and that means vacations! When you go on yours, don’t use the “out-of-office” setting on your voicemail and email. You want to seize opportunities to monitor your voicemail and email for potential leads! Check out the video to see what I mean: For the month of June, Amazon has the Kindle version […]. Blog Sales Motivation sales sales motivation sales tips summer sales
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A Sales Guy
JUNE 26, 2017
Every day I have a conversation with someone who isn’t where they want to be in their life or their career say to me, “I know. . I know, I need to make more calls. I know, I need to read more books. I know, I need to blog, (or blog more). I know, I need to use social media. I know, I need to learn more about my customer business. I know, I need to ask more questions. I know, I need to start talking less. I know, I need to build more offline relationships.
Sales Result
JUNE 26, 2017
Sales enablement is the process, practices, technologies and tools that improves the productivity and performance of the sales organization and sales team. Examples of sales enablement include playbooks, processes, collateral, CRM system, success metrics, and sales portals.
Sales Benchmark Index
JUNE 25, 2017
Today’s show is a demonstration on how a Chief Strategy Officer can help a sales team. Too many sales leaders tolerate the strategy leader within their company and do their best to avoid interlocking. However, a common challenge among sales.
The Sales Blog
JUNE 24, 2017
The technological tools available to us now are an amplification of the person who wields them. If you are a know-nothing, then the tools will amplify that deficiency. If you are a deep, consultative, trusted advisor, the tools will amplify that fact.
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Sharon Drew Morgan
JUNE 26, 2017
For years I’ve written about how sales suffer because the sales model, designed to seek buyers and place solutions by information sharing and gathering, ignores the vast opportunity to close more sales by adding the function of facilitating Buyer Readiness (i.e. systemic change).
Sell More and Work Less
JUNE 26, 2017
What’s up with the recent increase in dishonest sellers this year? Seriously, how can anyone actually think beginning a relationship with dishonesty is going to pay off in the end? It boggles my mind!
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 24, 2017
In my last Bits and Pieces article , I referred to a series of articles I’d written about applying manufacturing and lean techniques to sales and marketing. It was quite a long series, but I’ve had a lot of interest in it. I’ve consolidated the series into an eBook — What Can Sales Learn From Lean Manufacturing ?
The Sales Blog
JUNE 26, 2017
Some thoughts on how to interview for sales. If you can’t talk about how to create opportunities, you aren’t going to do the best job you can winning the sale. The post How to Interview for a Sales Jobs – Episode 147 appeared first on The Sales Blog. Video
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Sales Benchmark Index
JUNE 24, 2017
Data drives insights that empower marketing leaders with the intelligence to make sound decisions. The best B2B marketing ops leaders identify key performance indicators that are critical to business success. They build reporting and systems strategies around those metrics.
Dan Waldschmidt
JUNE 26, 2017
Success won’t come easily. And not because you’re not smart enough or strong enough. Not because you don’t want it bad enough. Success hurts because you hurt. You’re flawed. For every massive strength , you have an equally magnificent weakness. A flaw so all-consuming that at times it can seem completely debilitating. It takes over your performance, swallowing up anything good or positive in its way. It might be an addiction. An overdeveloped vice.
Partners in Excellence
JUNE 25, 2017
Recently, I had the opportunity to sit down with Bill Corbin, Senior Vice President, Alliances and Strategic Partnerships for CenturyLink. We had a wide ranging discussion on leveraging channels and partnerships to drive more effective engagement with customers.
Sales and Marketing
JUNE 26, 2017
Author: Nick Bhavsar, Senior Vice President Marketing, Get Smart Content We’ve all been there: It’s the end of the quarter and you find yourself staring at the numbers, wondering how you’re going to make up the revenue gap in such a short amount of time. Your VP of sales looks at you out of desperation and asks if there is anything marketing can do to help accelerate the pipeline/improve the win rate? Historically, marketing’s ability to help short-term impact was somewhat limited.
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