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Sales Lessons from Baseball's 2013 World Series

Understanding the Sales Force

It all started in 2004 when I began writing my best-selling book, Baseline Selling - How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. You also need to know how much better they will perform, what it will take in terms of training and coaching, and how long it will require to get them there.

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3 Ways to Grow Sales Inspired by Olympians

Score More Sales

She had competed in 2004, winning Silver, and 2008, also winning Silver. A man with no legs running in the Olympics – who would have believed that 5 or 10 years ago? Allyson Felix won the Gold medal for the US in the Women’s 200 meter. How did she do it?

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Can You Make Your Goal This Year?

Mr. Inside Sales

In 2004, he couldn’t walk any longer. ON DEMAND SALES TRAINING THAT GETS RESULTS! If your team is struggling with call reluctance and is tired of the endless rejection they face, then get instant access to our On Demand training today. It took him more than eight hours, but he did it. But Patrick didn’t give up.

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6 Ways to Help Customers Avoid Choice Paralysis and Boost Your Conversions [+Examples]

Hubspot Sales

However, the result — as psychologist Barry Schwartz put it in his 2004 book, “The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less" — is far less positive. Train your sales reps. Then train them again. One would think that more choices would be better, right? Here is the tiered structure for Marketing Hub.

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How you manage makes a difference

Sales and Marketing Management

Tim Houlihan is an evangelist of applied behavioral economics with more than 25 years of experience in product development, training, sales leadership and marketing strategy. Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study,” British Medical Journal, 2004.

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Do Generational Differences Matter in Account Based Sales?

No More Cold Calling

My accountant-trained parents asked how my company was going to pay back the million dollars I raised from investors. My partner Amy and I began our careers in the dot-com biz when the internet was as fledgling as our ability to run a startup on angel funding. Amy was 27.

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Leadership vs. Management with Charles Bernard

criteria for success

Charles has over 20 years of experience in direct sales, sales management, recruiting and training. He founded Criteria for Success back in 2004, and has since trained thousands of CEOs, Sales Managers, and Salespeople on the art of business, relationships, growing revenue, and overcoming challenges. Subscribe to our blog !