Understanding the Sales Force

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If you’ve been reading this Blog for more than a couple of years, or since 2006, then you know that every December I post the best articles of the past year. The Top 5 Sales Leadership Articles (unranked): Exposing the DIY Sales Organization – This should resonate with most senior executives! Whipped Cream!

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Understanding the Sales Force

JULY 2, 2014

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Yesterday, I read an article that was very consistent with what I was complaining about last week when I wrote The One Thing Missing From the New Way of Selling. I have tremendous respect for the article''s author, Mark Roberge , who has built a great sales force over at Hubspot.

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Score More Sales

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Review of SNAP Selling Author and B2B Sales Trainer Jill Konrath Live. It was a lucky double stroke of good fortune recently that sales thought leader Jill Konrath would be coming to town and that I was not on the road myself. Consulting. by Lori Richardson on November 14, 2011.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

JUNE 8, 2017

I’ve been involved in sales enablement and lead generation since the term was just getting popularized in the B2B tech sector around 2006. And more than ten years later, the definition of what sales enablement actually is has yet to be nailed down. Process-oriented sales enablement. Marketing-generated awareness.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 14, 2019

I would work with small-to-medium companies to craft their sales strategy. As I reflected on my career in sales and sales management, I realized my best business had come from referrals. I did my “feet on the street” research and interviewed sales leaders and salespeople. From Consulting Business to Referral Business.

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Anthony Cole Training

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Alan Mulally was an unlikely hero in American Industry when he took over Ford in 2006. I stopped reading, highlighted the passage and made the following note: “This pertains to sales managers and sales professionals in their relationship AND should also be applied to sales professionals and buyer relationships!”.

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DiscoverOrg Sales

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Welcome to another Whiteboard Wednesday, hosted by Steve Waters , DiscoverOrg’s Director of Sales. I want to talk about how to improve morale on the team over time by enabling them with great data and helping sales leaders invest in their team’s success. Morale is the best indicator of retention on a sales team.

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Hubspot Sales

APRIL 6, 2020

Every sales team needs sales strategies, and a strong sales strategy plan builds the foundation for a cohesive, successful sales team and organization. Sales strategies also align salespeople on shared goals and empower them to do their best work — keeping them happy and successful, too. Organizational Goals.

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No More Cold Calling

OCTOBER 29, 2015

” That’s why the words you use matter and why business to business sales “pitches” fall flat. The lesson for business to business sales leaders is loud and clear: Choose your words carefully. This study had a major impact on communication training. She was also identified by Training Industry, Inc.,

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Pointclear

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Jill is an internationally recognized expert who is known for her fresh sales strategies and game changing approaches. She is also a frequent speaker at annual sales meetings, kick-off events, and professional conferences. 2012 Surprise: Slow Adoption of Technology Like Sales Intelligence Tools. Don’t come in here. Absolutely.

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A Sales Guy

JULY 25, 2014

Everything that happens after your customer says “yes” is what separates sales leaders from the rest of the pack. Future sales are often sacrificed because the delivery of a product/service is rife with minor issues (including poor communication) that erode the trust you have worked so hard to develop. Sales Executive.

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SBI

MARCH 22, 2018

In this series, we ask Sales Tech Executives to describe how their solution can change a sales organization in a significant way. We call it Sales Tech Game Changers. Nancy: What are the top 3 ways your solution changes the game for a sales organization? Ease of use. A unique suite of pipeline tools.

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Grant Cardone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I didn’t like sales—but I learned sales anyways. Probably sometime between 2006 and 2009. My sales training company was worth nothing. You’ve got to find out who you are. I didn’t like finances, but I learned it anyways. When did I think $100 million would be a reality? I had five or six employees.

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Sales Training Connection

AUGUST 1, 2016

Sales Training – 2026. As a way of exploring the future of sales training, let’s time travel to the year 2026 and examine the major trends of the day. A number of the authors writing back in 2016 suggested that sales training was at an inflection point. Inflection point. Design philosophy.

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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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Increase Sales

JUNE 13, 2015

With over 2 million real estate agents (2006) according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR), becoming a successful real estate agent takes more than just a license and knowledge of current laws and regulations. Real estate agents work for a broker, but are independent, commissioned sales people. HINT: Use the W.A.Y.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 12, 2019

Thirteen years ago, in 2006, Sourcebooks published my manuscript and entitled it “Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results.” I deliberately share personal stories of both despair and triumph in corporate sales as the pioneer saleswoman. ABC-TV ‘View from the Bay with Spencer Christian, 2006.

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Hubspot Sales

OCTOBER 18, 2023

And it was that motivation — paired with his empathy, intelligence, and creativity — that allowed him to play an instrumental role in building HubSpot’s sales department from the ground up as the company's first sales director and sixth employee. billion in just nine years. in their next one-on-one. If you need help, ask.

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Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

OCTOBER 13, 2021

You’re a savvy sales professional, and you know it doesn’t do any good to trot out product benefits that don’t interest your buyers. If you provide good training, it’s not a big problem.”. Harvard Business Review, March 2006. You: “Okay, what if the product weren’t particularly user friendly?”. Anderson, J.C.,

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Sales and other customer-facing representatives are likely familiar with the phenomenon. As a sales rep, information about products, services, and even industry trends boost credibility and adds value in the eyes of the customer or prospect. Representatives earn badges for completed levels within established time periods.

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Sales Evangelist

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

During today’s interview I had the pleasure of speaking with Linda Richardson about her new book, “Changing The Sales Conversation”. Linda is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of Richardson, a global sales training business. Linda is the Founder and Executive Chairwoman of Richardson, a global sales training business.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 7, 2018

As a sales manager, your success is determined by the success of your reps. In fact, the majority of today’s sales teams consist of average performers. This drastically affects your over sales team performance bell curve. By auditing the performance of your top reps, you can apply your findings to the entire sales process.

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Pipeliner

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

These days I remembered something I’ve read back in 2006 and somehow kept in the back of mind all this time: ‘’Everyone wants to be the VP of marketing and do the cool stuff like advertising and promotion. Therefore putting together a sales dream team is definitely key to keep everything working. Bypassing Sales Analytics & Data.

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Brooks Group remains among the sales professional's elite companies. The competition at this year's annual awards for sales and customer service once again featured some of America's top sales professionals and forward-thinking organizations. Sales Hiring and Retention Sales Performance Improvement

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The Brooks Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

The Brooks Group remains among the sales professional's elite companies. The competition at this year's annual awards for sales and customer service once again featured some of America's top sales professionals and forward-thinking organizations. Submitted by: Sales Hiring and Retention Sales Performance Improvement

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Paul Cherry's Top Sales Techniques

AUGUST 16, 2016

What’s the secret for achieving sales success? For the past 20 years, I have dedicated by life’s work to helping individuals achieve and surpass their sales performance goals — I’ve helped over 1,200 organizations in all sorts of industries, across the country. But they don’t make pests of themselves, either.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 31, 2024

Let’s examine that … Back in the 80’s, I was the sales manager for a local office equipment company. In 2006 I secured a deal with a regional bank that was going to be rapidly expanding in S.W. To learn more about our Nimble training and implementation services, please visit www.adaptive-business.com/nimble-scrm-training-support.

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Transportation Epiphany Banking Vendor 71

The ROI Guy

MAY 4, 2006

Technology Sales & Marketing - Party Like its 1999? A Q&A with me on latest IT sales and marketing metrics, trends and best practices Is 2006 shaping up to be a good year for IT spending growth? in 2006, with annual growth in software sales leading the way at 7.0%.

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Mindtickle

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Sales and other customer-facing representatives are likely familiar with the phenomenon. As a sales rep, information about products, services, and even industry trends boost credibility and adds value in the eyes of the customer or prospect. Representatives earn badges for completed levels within established time periods.

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Face-to-face Remedy Retention Lead Scoring 52

Sales Training Advice

JULY 16, 2012

Laws of Sales Attraction. Sales professionals must create magnetic appeal to increase closing efficiency. Our present global environment creates numerous obstacles that polarize sales efforts, form the proliferation of the Internet to advanced media. Sales attraction is discovering the true economic buyer.

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Jonathan Farrington

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Nobody – well hardly anybody – is talking about “Sales 2.0″ Have we moved on to “Sales 3.0″ However, let me be very clear here, the “sales space” has witnessed the birth of some superb new solutions; highly successful conferences; a plethora of books/articles/webinars etc.

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Adaptive Business Services

JANUARY 24, 2018

My first reinvention was in 2006 when I made the decision that I no longer wanted to work in management and that I wanted to work for myself. In 2006 I was associated with a company as a quasi independent contractor but, in 2010 (Craig 3.0) Sales consulting. Sales assessments. That was Craig 2.0. We all make mistakes.

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Jonathan Farrington

APRIL 20, 2013

To look at the seven year history of Top Sales World is to see one man’s dream of collaboration and community come true. The man is Jonathan Farrington—whose vision for the development of sales forces now spans the globe. Top Sales Academy is one more connector in the Top Sales World.

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Adaptive Business Services

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

At the same time, these articles will become a foundation for training sessions for our current and future members. Networking groups have fed me consistently throughout the years and they have yielded several million dollars in sales as a direct result of referrals and that is the magic word. 2006 was an interesting year for me.

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InsightSquared

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

During the last two months, I have had the opportunity to speak with nearly 200 sales operations leaders from all over the globe. In nearly every introductory conversation, the discussion quickly turns to the path each person took that brought them to Sales Operations leadership. . The Evolution of Sales Operations.

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ExecVision

AUGUST 16, 2018

Spoiler alert: Yes, you can legally record sales calls placed into or out of the Golden State. Read on to learn more about their specific laws and how your sales team can remain compliant. In 2006, the case of Kearney v. Please remember, we are not lawyers, this post should not be taken as legal advice.

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The ROI Guy

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

The bottom line message for vendors – if you want your sales proposal to be a priority, it needs to be justified in quantifiable terms. In response, most sales forces have instituted initiatives to help align with a more demanding and frugal customer base. The demand for business value selling is a fundamental and permanent shift.

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