Score More Sales

JULY 24, 2014

I met world-renowned sales expert Jill Konrath virtually back in 2005 or so, after she had written her first best-selling sales book, Selling to Big Companies. Her book came out, I read it, and I wrote a review for my fledgling B2B sales blog. That is all in the past now because Sales Shebang® re-launched this week.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

When I was a new sales professional I did question myself a lot. While I was confident enough to get my early sales positions, I was not confident about the products and services that my company offered until I really knew them well. He was the 24th pick in the 2005 NFL Draft instead of one of the top few picks the media talked about.

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Understanding the Sales Force

JANUARY 4, 2024

In today’s article, I introduce my first innovation of 2023, the Sales Goals Grid, but first, some context and the back story! I am excited to return to my roots and grow the sales consulting and training firm I started in 1985, Kurlan & Associates. Happy New Year everyone! I may have exited OMG, but I am not retiring.

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Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 11, 2024

On this page you’ll find everything you always wanted to know about how to get Baseline Selling content and training – all in one place. Baseline Selling is a proprietary sales process and methodology that Dave Kurlan developed in 2005.

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Score More Sales

AUGUST 29, 2012

As a sales-brained person (not marketing-brained) I tend to stay away from marketers, but these last two days have been different and very rewarding. Inbound marketing is a term coined by Hubspot in 2005 to refer to making yourself easy to be found on the web. Download his no cost ebook (230 pages!) and we can read it together.

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Increase Sales

JULY 19, 2013

keyboard) now is directing more sales leads and consequently sales dollars than ever before. Having engaged in content marketing since April of 2005 when I placed my first articles over at Ezine Articles , I have found this type of marketing far easier for me and far more beneficial respective to being able to increase sales.

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Understanding the Sales Force

APRIL 3, 2014

Most of the sales bloggers don''t touch on rejection but when it does comes up, it''s usually in the context of fear, as in fear of rejection. But rejection isn''t that well understood by salespeople, their sales managers or sales even their sales VP''s. The increasing likelihood of a sale. Nothing will stop him.

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Score More Sales

DECEMBER 18, 2014

The businesses who participated all have annual sales revenues between $10M and $1B. The National Association for Business Economics (NABE) predicts the strongest GDP growth since 2005. Lori Richardson is recognized on Forbes as one of the “Top 30 Social Sales Influencers” worldwide. participated. Close More Deals.

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Jeff Shore

MAY 16, 2018

I am having flashbacks of 2005…economically speaking that is. If you were in sales in 2005, things were booming. From the sales person perspective it was both good and bad. From the sales person perspective it was both good and bad. When the market is kind, the majority of sales people relax their behaviors.

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Score More Sales

MAY 10, 2013

They say time flies when you are having fun – especially in sales. We included it because I’m crazy about LinkedIn as a sales tool, and because LinkedIn and I go way back – nine years, in fact. I also recommend people visit LinkedIn Training and Support Resources for videos and webinars specific to sellers.

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Hubspot Sales

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Originally held in 2005, this one-week program from MIT’s Sloan School of Management is now partially available online. How to plan your business logistics. How to pitch and sell to buyers. Building and Leading Effective Teams from MIT OpenCourseWare. Length: Self-paced. Price: Free. Level: Introductory.

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Bernadette McClelland

JANUARY 11, 2017

When they find themselves in a competitive sales situation some wouldn’t have a clue where to focus their attention or what steps they will take next. Initially designed for the battlefields of China some 2,500 years ago, his works have now been adapted to leadership, business and more relevantly sales strategies.

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Sales Training Connection

JULY 8, 2013

Pharma sales. Pharma sales reps in the U.S. nearly doubled to 100,000 between 1996 and 2005 even though the number of practicing physicians rose by just 26%. If you observed the world of Pharma sales in a rear view mirror, growth was the name of the game. Today, Pharma sales forces are being downsized. The Wall St.

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Increase Sales

AUGUST 3, 2013

Someone tells you in his or her sales pitch their website receives 60,000 unique visitors. If your small business is looking to increase sales through the Internet, it may mean something. If your small business is looking to increase sales through the Internet, it may mean something. This is a benefit statement.

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Hubspot Sales

JUNE 5, 2018

Your sales pitch can make or break the deal, so it’s a good idea to have that nailed down before meeting with your customer. I’ve been in sales for 15 years and have heard some really great pitches and some really bad ones. I’ve been in sales for 15 years and have heard some really great pitches and some really bad ones.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

MAY 26, 2017

As we re-release our Startup and Small Business (SMB) dataset , which has grown by 400% over the past 12 months, we’ve been thinking about the origin of this popular segment of sales intelligence. We hired and trained a research team. They held a common industry assumption that if you buy sales intelligence, it’s going to be bad.

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Xvoyant

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Modern Sales Environment. To say the state of sales today is radically different than it was in 2005 would be an understatement. And it isn’t just one part of sales that has changed. The modern sales team has added structure to the activities salespeople conduct to build pipeline and win business. 6 min read.

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Sales Gravy

DECEMBER 18, 2020

On this inspiring episode of the Sales Gravy podcast, Jeb Blount (Virtual Selling) talks to Brian Knox, owner and founder of B Knox Photography. This conversation about sales and entrepreneurship is both educational and inspirational. This conversation about sales and entrepreneurship is both educational and inspirational.

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Sales and Marketing Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

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. But what about real sales reps? I’ve got bills to pay! Don’t do it.

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Nutshell

JUNE 29, 2021

In 2005, it released Zoho CRM , followed by Projects and Sheets in 2006, and Zoho Meeting in 2007. Its users also enjoy the ability to create multiple sales pipelines , customize reports, and integrate with third-party software through native integrations and Zaps where the integrations fall short. And Zoho’s growth continued.

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Adaptive Business Services

APRIL 24, 2024

While I have spent most of my adult life hiring and training salespeople, it has been two years since my last new hire and that was for a client. I left my last management job in 2005 and have been blissfully semi-retired since that time. I can train product knowledge and sales skills. Even then, it’s a crap shoot.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 9, 2022

Along with financial help, they often provide coaching and training to borrowers to improve the odds of success and repayment. The group then undergoes training to learn about loans, saving, and credit building. After the training, each woman in the group opens a savings account and receives a microloan to build their small business.

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Xactly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Working in Sales is no easy game. For the days that are more the latter than the former, we’ve put together a list of a handful of motivational sales success stories to bring you some inspiration, along with a list of additional motivational sales articles at the end. Broke to Billionaire. The Incentive of Getting Fired.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 14, 2019

Who's likelier to make a mistake: The rookie sales rep who's never sold a day in their life, or the veteran rep who's been on the front lines for nine years? I asked a group of salespeople I was training to describe the purpose of an email subject line. If it were 2005, that would have been a great response.

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Your Sales Management Guru

JUNE 27, 2011

Sales Leadership: Building Culture to Increase Profits. They surveyed 2,400 workers and compared a study from 2005 to 2010 showing the percentages of discontent. Ages 2005 2010. As readers of this blog should know, my answer to point number one to build an on-going sales recruiting program.

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MJ Hoffman

APRIL 22, 2019

Who’s likelier to make a mistake: The rookie sales rep who’s never sold a day in their life, or the veteran rep who’s been on the front lines for nine years? I asked a group of salespeople I was training to describe the purpose of an email subject line. If it were 2005, that would have been a great response.

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Xvoyant

APRIL 17, 2019

Gary Rhoads, PhD – Co-Founder Xvoyant — Despite the traditional wisdom of the Sales Executive Council in 2005 to focus on the middle and leave the top and bottom performers alone, many sales leaders are still unsure about who and how to coach to maximize sales revenue. Traditional Wisdom on Sales Coaching.

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Xvoyant

APRIL 17, 2019

Gary Rhoads, PhD – Co-Founder Xvoyant — Despite the traditional wisdom of the Sales Executive Council in 2005 to focus on the middle and leave the top and bottom performers alone, many sales leaders are still unsure about who and how to coach to maximize sales revenue. Traditional Wisdom on Sales Coaching.

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Sales Coaching Coaching Distribution Margin 48

Partners in Excellence

MARCH 5, 2024

It was a national firm that offered high-end calculating equipment and training that had won many industry awards. Things finally started to click and I was off to the races, becoming the branch sales manager in two years and then being given offices of my own in 1982. In 2005 I left management to pursue the pure joy of selling.

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Eyeful Presentations

APRIL 13, 2021

Sales & Pitch presentations are interesting beasts. Sales still rely heavily on presentation materials, but more than half (57.2%) of sales leaders believe that the quality of their sales presentations “needs improvement” or major redesign (CSO Insights). You need training that delivers. Presentation Campus.

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Sales and Marketing Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

workers has ranged from a low of 26 percent in 2000 and 2005 to the recent six-month high of 34 percent. Many of the managers, sales coaches and consultants who responded to a query we posted while researching this story said purposeful work is the only way to drive engagement. And these numbers were up from past Gallup surveys.

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Hubspot Sales

MARCH 25, 2019

In sales, it can incentivize reps to work harder to close more deals, meet their numbers, and even adapt to new sales tech. The reality is that most companies offer sales incentives — we at HubSpot do, too. However, there's no one correct, catch-all way to inspire your sales team. Less Is More. Source: PFX.

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Eyeful Presentations

APRIL 13, 2021

Sales & Pitch presentations are interesting beasts. Sales still rely heavily on presentation materials, but more than half (57.2%) of sales leaders believe that the quality of their sales presentations “needs improvement” or major redesign (CSO Insights). You need training that delivers. 2 to 8 Hours.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 2, 2020

Battlecards, despite being one of the most popular sales enablement tools, too often go unused by sales teams. How can we combat this lack of adoption by Sales? The Battlecard Adoption Playbook consists of five parts and is designed to ensure that Sales leverages battlecards to win competitive deals. Interview sales reps.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 17, 2022

The insights are essential for business growth and the precursor for successful sales. Janice is listed in the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders and Influencers on Customer Experience, 2020 and 150 Women B2B Thought Leaders You Should Follow, 2021 and LinkedIn Sales 15 Innovating Sales Influencers to Follow, 2021.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 31, 2018

I’m not even so sure how good of a salesperson I was but, inside of two years I was the sales manager. From then until 2005, just about my entire career was in management and ownership positions. Sometimes I was a selling manager who was asked to secure my own sales in addition to managing my teams. Trial by fire.

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Adaptive Business Services

AUGUST 2, 2017

Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to sales manager and until twelve years ago, all I did was manage sales reps. I did have a life-changing event in 2005. The business that I went back into was one that I loved but, I had not been in that market, even as a sales manager, for three or four years.

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