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The Rules of the Game for Baseball & Selling

Anthony Cole Training

In 2005, I read Dave Kurlan’s book Baseline Selling. They are skilled at asking the right questions early in the game to determine if their suspect is truly a prospect, and they only advance them if they qualify to go to second base in the sales process. Here are a few additional tips to help your salespeople drive more home runs.

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What is the Best Sales Process for Increasing Sales?

Understanding the Sales Force

Having founded Kurlan & Associates in 1985 and Objective Management Group in 1990, the only surprise should be that it took so long to combine the two passions and write Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball , in 2005. Is it the concept of SOB Quality?

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The Challenge of the Challenger Sales Model - The Facts

Understanding the Sales Force

This elite salesperson is also described in my 2005 best-seller, Baseline Selling , where I introduced a sales process milestone called SOB Quality (speed on bases, a baseball expression). Questions that challenge the prospect''s thinking is the essence of the Challenger. In this scenario, without context, James is correct again.

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Rejection - Why it is the #1 Enemy in Modern Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

Today, prospects are much less inclined to take a salesperson''s call, return a voicemail or an email message, engage in a conversation, schedule a call or meeting, share important information, return calls to salespeople towards the end of the sales process or make a decision. The revenue of the prospect company. No problem.

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5 Marketing and Sales Lessons from the Inbound 2012 Event

Score More Sales

Inbound marketing is a term coined by Hubspot in 2005 to refer to making yourself easy to be found on the web. Users will now have more tools in a convenient location to do everything they need to draw more prospective customers their way. He presented numerous ways that your content can bring you more prospects to your website.

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LinkedIn Celebrates 10 Years with Big Enhancements

Score More Sales

I invited LinkedIn co-Founder Konstantin Guericke to speak at a technology dinner put on by the MIT Enterprise Forum in Seattle in 2005. Take a look today at the new channels on LinkedIn Today - it is easier now to learn what your customers and prospective customers are thinking and reading about.

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5 Critical Things to Consider When Evaluating Lead Generation Companies

Pointclear

Large medical device manufacturer—since 2005. Nurture (no specific next step, but nurturing qualified prospects and gaining actionable market intelligence through the qualification process are extremely valuable outcomes missed by many if not most companies—18%). One of the world’s largest software companies—since 2002.