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Top 10 Problems with Channel Sales - Don't be Held Hostage

Understanding the Sales Force

Ignored in all of these articles are those clients and companies that sell through channels. The channels are many, and include stocking distributors, brokers, retailers, VARs, agencies, partners, resellers, rep firms and more. Channel sales is quite different. This is more like traditional B2B sales.

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Social Marketing Is Not Social Selling

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Years ago I read “marketing is not selling.” ” With the impact of technology, this statement can be easily revised to “social marketing is not social selling.” Also if we engage in effective marketing, then selling (purchase) can be effortless as noted by Peter Drucker. Engage first; sell second.

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Sales Blogging - Do As I Say, Not as I Do

Understanding the Sales Force

We go to market through a global network of certified partners - our channel - and we spent considerable meeting time talking about them. Improve your sales coaching capabilities. Train, coach, train and coach some more. It''s not very difficult to upgrade the quality of your sales force or channel.

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The 33 Best Sales Training Video Channels on YouTube

Hubspot Sales

Whether you and your team need some bite-sized instruction, a full course correction or just a bit of motivation, there’s a wide variety of YouTube sales training channels that can help you. You'll find a short description of each channel as well as a few examples of especially informative or entertaining videos from each.

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Community Marketing Catapults Word of Mouth

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Word of mouth marketing is one of the best strategies to attract positive or negative attention. The reason is simple people believe other people usually family or friends before any advertising or other marketing activities no matter how good those actions are. The Power of Community Marketing. Time to Build Your Communities.

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The Social Media Complacency Current

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Social media is a great marketing channel. What happens is business professionals from small business professionals including sales representatives believe stroking the black and irony keys will secure them new sales leads or by accumulating mass quantities of friends, contacts or postings they will increase sales.

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The Surprisingly New, Yet Very Old Leadership Skill

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This newer communication channel of technology started with email and now has spread through social media and content marketing. More and more communication is being channeled through electronic mediums. Technology has further embolden this very old leadership skill. Share on Facebook.

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