Pointclear

OCTOBER 6, 2010

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HeavyHitter Sales

OCTOBER 15, 2010

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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OCTOBER 29, 2010

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. Do You Have Idea Zombies in Your Business? by Lori Richardson on October 29, 2010. I was reading an article about social media for non-profit organizations – a topic near and dear to my heart. The post, created by John Haydon of Inbound Zombie (whom I first heard recently at Blogworld , and realize how much I’ve been out of the loop by not following him) is a brief interview with Danielle

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 21, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Today’s buyers expect more than generic outreach–they want relevant, personalized interactions that address their specific needs. For sales teams managing hundreds or thousands of prospects, however, delivering this level of personalization without automation is nearly impossible. The key is integrating AI in a way that enhances customer engagement rather than making it feel robotic.

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Fill the Funnel

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Twitter #chats are one of the hottest trends on the social web and a great way to learn about a variety of topics. A Twitter #chat is a series of tweets, all focused around a specific topic that is held at a specific time, that anyone with an interest or opinion is encouraged to join in. You “listen” and contribute by searching for the chat name preceded by the hashtag symbol.

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Pointclear

OCTOBER 26, 2010

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SBI

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Gerhard Gschwandtner launched Selling Power magazine in 1981 with a vision to create the number one industry resource for sales professionals. And that, he has done. Widely recognized as a thought leader and industry trailblazer, he has trained more than 10,000 salespeople around the world and is the author of 17 sales management books. Next week, Gerhard will be co-hosting the Sales and Marketing 2.0 conference in San Francisco – along with Umberto Milletti, co-founder of InsideView.

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OCTOBER 24, 2010

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. Three Ways to Grow Your Small Business Sales. by Lori Richardson on October 24, 2010. Grow Small Biz Sales! It is the beginning of the last quarter of the calendar year, and if sales are down, you know that a burst of revenues before December 31 could be a great way to end 2010.

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Anthony Cole Training

OCTOBER 1, 2010

HOME ABOUT US SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED LEARNING CLIENT RESULTS FREE RESOURCES SHOPPING CONTACT US SALES BREW SALES FORCE ONE SELLING FOR LIFE. Does Your Team Need a Wake Up Call? Tony Cole can tailor a workshop or keynote that will help your team discover the spark of extraordinary motivation and success. Why Arent Your Salespeople Selling? Fix Your Problem Now.

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 19, 2010

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Tom Hopkins

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Everyone sells, one way or another. As parents, we sell our children on our belief systems and our values. In courtship, we sell ourselves to our prospective partners. At work, we sell ourselves every day to our employers and our co-workers. However, there’s something keeping us from doing the best job of selling in every [.] Related posts: Overcoming the “It costs too much” Sales Objection.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Coach UP! It’s the Message That Matters. During my trip to Moscow, while delivering my management coach training program, a manager, frustrated by the fact that she wasn’t getting the recognition and support she needed, asked, “Is it acceptable to tell your boss what you really want from them? I mean, shouldn’t they already know what I need and if they don’t know, shouldn’t they be the one to find out?

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Fill the Funnel

OCTOBER 28, 2010

How much are you planning to spend out of your own pocket for training/career development in 2011? Please record your plans for this timely question in the LinkedIn Poll here: [link]. You will be able to see the results after you enter your vote, and I will provide a summary post mid-November. I am curious to learn your plans for growing your career success in 2011.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. There Is No Substitute for Top Notch. by Lori Richardson on October 19, 2010. Willows Lodge Offsite. It’s a term that originated in the 1820′s – “top-notch” It means outstanding, notable, superior. Quality surroundings, impeccable customer service, and amazing attention to detail creates a great first impression and begins the foundations of customer loyalty.

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The Science and Art of Selling

OCTOBER 8, 2010

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Engage Selling

OCTOBER 13, 2010

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Tom Hopkins

OCTOBER 8, 2010

This is the time of year most professionals invest effort in being better than last year. New goals are set. More efficient ways of doing business are sought after and implemented. Goal setting and time planning go hand in hand. I don’t believe you can effectively plan your time without goals. And, I don’t believe [.] Related posts: Setting Realistic Sales Goals.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 22, 2010

To continue our conversation around how to effectively coach up and build upon part one of this multi-part series, unfortunately, many people believe that approaching their manager in a way that would make them receptive to what they have to say is a very difficult task at hand. Some even feel it’s an impossible one. What compounds this challenge is, there are still those managers who fall victim of a very prevalent coaching myth.

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Fill the Funnel

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Dabbleboard is an online whiteboard that will help you visualize, explore and communicate ideas. Dabbleboard feels as natural to use as a marker on a whiteboard, or a pencil on a sheet of paper. Just draw strokes on your screen and Dabbleboard will detect most common shapes and turn them into perfect shapes with just a few strokes of your mouse. If you are graphically challenged, as I am, this feature alone helps me look better in the eyes of my client. 60 Second View of Dabbleboard ease of use

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OCTOBER 7, 2010

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. Will You Ever Pay Full Price Again? by Lori Richardson on October 7, 2010. As a consumer, have you enjoyed the rise of Groupon ? Have you noticed all the new counterparts that are “Groupon-like?” Here in the Northwest I have subscribed to LocalTwist, Tippr , and DealSpringer.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 12, 2010

No Regrets: Finding Your Recipe for. Personal and Professional Success. (This is an excerpt from my upcoming book: Success Simplified with Stephen Covey. Wright: Ken, tell me about your idea of no regrets, finding your recipe for personal and professional success? Thoreson. It began in my professional life, working as a sales leader and vice president of sales for more than fifteen years.

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 22, 2010

It’s a painful fact of channel marketing life that resellers will fail to use the vast

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Tom Hopkins

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Since most clients have a ‘say no’ mentality when you first begin talking with them, you would be wise to have a way to counter it. In fact, I encourage you to incorporate the phrases “If you say yes…” and “When you say yes…” into more of your presentations. It mentally takes them from withholding [.] Related posts: My Dear Old Mother Close.

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Keith Rosen

OCTOBER 19, 2010

It’s not a shock that one of my deepest passions is writing and sharing my work in a way that delivers value to people, wherever they are located throughout the world. What continues to drive me to write are the emails I get from readers, thanking me and asking for assistance around incorporating what they have read, overcoming a barrier they have encountered or what they can do to embed certain changes within their organization.

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Fill the Funnel

OCTOBER 1, 2010

Connections matter. Relationships matter. Whether you are in sales, marketing, or building your own business as an entrepreneur, you are all in the same boat. Some are you are better connected than others. Some of you jumped on the social web bandwagon years ago, and there are still some of you who still do not have a LinkedIn profile. All of us count on our connections and relationships to grow and prosper.

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OCTOBER 3, 2010

Sales Tips and Strategies to Grow Revenues. Blog. About. Consulting. Training. Press. Speaking. Blogworld Next Week- It’s Getting Hard to Sleep! by Lori Richardson on October 3, 2010. It is very exciting to know that in 11 days I’ll be at Blogworld and Social Media Business Summit in Vegas. Currently combing through the many sessions, I’m as focused as ever to see best practices on how small and medium sized businesses can grow revenues through social media.

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Your Sales Management Guru

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Sales Leadership: The Importance of a 2011 Sales Kick Off Meeting. Perhaps 2010 was great year for your sales team or perhaps it was a struggle and a disappointment. In either case starting to plan your 2011 sales kickoff event is an important action during November. Why? There are many reasons to make sure this event is properly orchestrated. Keeping your team excited and motivated is essential, a new year means all your sales numbers go back to zero -that can be emotionally draining for sal

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BrainShark

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I’d like to call your attention to a small change we made recently to the myBrainshark service. Now, after you upload your content, it will be “inactive” initially and remain inactive until you activate it.

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