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The Secret to Sales Rep Motivation

Steven Rosen

The answer that traditional sales leaders have used in the past is to throw more money at their team to drive performance. The researchers at MIT in a 2005 study for the Federal Reserve Bank concluded that : As long as the task involved only mechanical skills, bonuses and rewards work. The higher the pay the better the performance.

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Zig Ziglar's Legacy to the Sales World

Understanding the Sales Force

Today, motivational speaking has evolved to include sales and sales management training and coaching, sales consulting, sales force development, sales enablement, sales and sales leadership training and coaching, sales infrastructure and sales architecture.

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Women Sales Leaders: From Pioneers to Modern-Day Trailblazers

No More Cold Calling

She decided special training was needed for girls who wanted to become saleswomen, and perhaps one day, women sales leaders. And as a member of the executive committee of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston, she had the means to provide that training.

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Now That You Have a Sales Process, Never Mind

Understanding the Sales Force

Those are the exact same issues we have identified in the 10,000 companies whose sales forces we have evaluated - the companies where 91% did not have sales processes! In 2005 I wrote the book Baseline Selling and it contains both the Baseline Selling sales process and the Baseline Selling sales methodology.

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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 increasing likelihood of a sale. No problem.

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How To Win On The Front Line Using Strategy, Sun Tzu and Sales Readiness

Bernadette McClelland

One of those strategies is summed up by this very ‘relevant to 20th century sales leadership behaviour’ statement : “If officers are unaccustomed to rigorous drilling they will be worried and hesitant in battle; if generals are not thoroughly trained they will be inwardly quail when they face the enemy.”.

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The Science of Motivation

Sales and Marketing Management

Sales manager: I’d like to know what rewards the reps would like for our next incentive. Sales rep: Cash! Sales manager: Sounds good. You may be a seasoned sales manager, fatigued by trying to come up with innovative ways to motivate your reps. Are Sales Incentives Becoming Obsolete?”