October, 2008

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: The Seven Deadly Sins of Salespeople

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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How Good Managers Can Hold Employees Accountable

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Sales Quota Attainment: Who's Performance is Measured?

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For companies with the fiscal year identical to the calendar year, we are entering the period where sales leadership starts thinking about the next year. One of the key parameters to figure out are the sales quotas to be given to the salespeople. As the percentage of salespeople reaching or overachieving quota can be considered an established measure of Sales Effectiveness and it is also common knowledge, that the percentage of salespeople reaching quota leaves a lot of room for improvement, it

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Five Lessons I Learned at Starbucks

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I have just watched a beggar collect at least $5 worth of donations in the last half hour with a sign that says – “I am saving up for a hooker, weed, wine and a steak dinner.

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The Trends You Need to Succeed This Holiday Season

October Prime Day is usually an early sign of how consumer spending trends ahead of the holidays. This one was no exception. Our October Prime Day Report breaks down what’s working: the products flying off the shelves, the categories winning big, big brands, and the search terms defining demand. All brought to you via Similarweb’s Shopper Intelligence platform.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Shocking Presidential Campaign News Video

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Recent Posts. A Salespersons Most Important Competitive Weapon. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. Why Year End Deals Dont Close: THE CESSPOOL! IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Are Top Salespeople Born or Made?

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Are You a Bridge Builder?

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I find it interesting to note that successful people clearly understand the value of a role model and the power of a mentor's guidance.

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Is Email Hiding Your Personality?

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You know that it’s your personality and message that distinguish you on the phone. But, when you write, you have to be really careful that the words you choose let your personality shine through.

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How To Build a Winning Team

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How many times have you experienced or witnessed yourself, sales people, managers and owners looking for miracle cures without taking care of the fundamental basics?

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The Five Keys To Success

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Combining all the keys to success will create a sense of urgency needed for success. Examine the current level of each of the five keys to success in your life and create a personal game plan for successful living.

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Buyer’s Guide: 5 Tough Questions To Ask a Salesforce Managed Services Provider

This guide is for leaders who recognize the importance of Salesforce but would rather trust a team of external experts to do the heavy lifting. Choosing the right managed services provider is a significant decision that impacts your business's efficiency and success. In this 10-minute read, you'll find 5 essential questions to ask any potential provider.

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Challenge Your Lessons

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Whether you’re a manager or a salesperson; don’t rely on the company to provide you with the tools, training, support and coaching you need to succeed in your position and in your career.

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Book Review - Advertising 2.0

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{mosimage}Tracy L. Tuten’s new book Advertising 2.0 is one of the most comprehensive books I have read on internet based advertising and the implications for B2B and B2C organizations.

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Book Review - The Frugal Millionaires

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The Universe Inside Your Brain

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When I learned about the process of ‘rewiring your brain’ to make significant and lasting changes in personal results, good things began to happen.

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Beyond the Basics: How to Develop and Retain a Top-Performing Sales Team

Speaker: Brendan Sweeney, VP of Sales at Allego

Maximizing sales rep performance is no easy task. 📈 Traditional sales training methods focus heavily on the first few weeks in the sales role. Companies dedicate time, resources, and budget to onboarding new hires, only for them to forget what was learned in those first few weeks, lose motivation, and struggle to come to grips with their role.

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Develop a Recession Proof Attitude

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“The smartest thing I can do right now is keep getting better. Improve my training, improve my products, and improve my advertising.

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What Customers Hate About Salespeople

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Almost everyone in sales knows the importance of persistence. However, there is a fine line between persistence and stalking.

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The Powerful Sales Person

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A customer will move through three stages of the selling process – Character/Trust, Emotion, and Logic. People have to like and trust you, then they allow you to guide them to emotions that eventually combine with logic. Emotion distorts reality.

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Find Your Hidden Wealth

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All businesses are different. Each business should require their leaders to conduct a concerted effort of introspection and egoless honesty to determine what their hidden wealth may be.

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Secrets of a Successful Sale: Optimizing Your Checkout Process

Speaker: David Nisbet, Everett Zufelt, and Michaela Weber

Once upon a time, in the vast realm of online commerce, there lived a humble checkout button overlooked by many. Yet, within its humble click lay the power to transform a mere visitor into a loyal customer. 🧐 💡 Getting checkout right can mark the difference between a successful sale and an abandoned cart, yet many businesses fail to make payments a part of their commerce strategy even when it has a direct impact on revenue.

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5 Tips for Keeping Your Job in a Recession

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Facing the worst economic crisis in 80 years, many Sales Professionals and Sales Leaders are, with good reason, concerned about their jobs. Fear is palpable everywhere I go. Everyone is scared. Most people are searching for answers.

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The Party is Over

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How To Talk To Anybody, Anytime

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If you get adept enough at asking questions of others, you will inevitably find a connection to talk about. And having something in common with someone is the start to a long and mutually beneficial relationship – one of the foundations of success!

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Shedding Light on Dark Marketing - Dr. Tracy Tuten

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Let's Get Physical: How to Blend Direct Mail Marketing with Your Digital Strategy

Speaker: Akeel Jabber, B2B SaaS Investor and Growth Marketer at Horizen Capital

⭐ Are you ready to boost campaign success? Consider the untapped potential of integrating direct mail marketing seamlessly with digital marketing strategies. Combining the physical, tangible impact of direct mail with the dynamic reach of digital marketing can be a game-changer, significantly increasing your ROI when done right. Direct mail grabs attention, making it great for reaching your target audience 📩 Digital marketing keeps the momentum going, driving action 📲 So.

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Ten Tips For Closing More Business

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If a prospect raises an objection, after you respond to that objection, ask: "Aside from (whatever objection your prospect voiced) what else might stand in the way of us doing business together?

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Interface between Marketing and Sales: From a Source of Trouble to a Success Factor

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is the free translation of a public workshop I premiered last week with ZfU International Business School in Switzerland. Delegates from various industries involved in B2B scenarios in either Marketing and/or Sales leadership functions discovered that they all had similar problems with their Sales and Marketing silos. An assessment of each others function revealed that Marketing complained about Sales being too short term, tactical oriented, and not giving feedback from the field, whereas Sales

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In Pursuit of Happiness

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I believe the essence of happiness is having an enthusiastic purpose that drives us each moment, hour, day, week, month and year.

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The Power of Choice!

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Henry Ford was right when he said, "Whether you think you can or think you can't - you're right." Your belief system, like your computer, doesn't judge what you input; it simply accepts it as the truth.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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"I Do!" Design An Offer That Commences The Sales Marriage

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The offer phase of a sales talent screening program takes preparation and finesse. The good news is that there are many parallels to sales that can be applied to this phase.

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Will the Real Objection Please Stand Up?

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Don’t overact to objections with anger or show an attitude of superiority. Others may be seeing something outside of your vision or experience.

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If Barack Obama Was Your VP of Sales

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Note to Democrats: Now, before you get all mad at me.take a deep breath and think back to a time when you had a sense of humor!

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