July, 2009

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Why Are You In Sales? The Surprising Truth

HeavyHitter Sales

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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Managers Don’t Know What Their People Are Doing. Powerful Observation Techniques to Better Coach Your Team to Excel

Keith Rosen

Do you know what your people are doing in the field? Really? Are you sure? In my experience, unless managers are in the field observing and listening to what their people are doing, they have no clue. Sure, you can guess and hypothesize as to why, for example, some of the salespeople on your team aren’t making quota or selling more. But when managers finally take the time to observe their people in the trenches, the real truth is (sometimes painfully) apparent.

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Lead with vision in your presentation

BrainShark

elow is a wonderful presentation created by Nancy Duarte of Duarte Design. It appears in her slide:ology blog and the reason I share it is because it lives and breathes best practices.

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I'm So Busy I Don?t Have Time To?

Sales Gravy

When you convince yourself that you are so busy, you won’t focus on the most important task at hand such as working your business growth action plan. The activity of the moment will keep you in a very reactive state instead of a proactive one.

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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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Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy: VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit.

The ROI Guy

Tom Pisello: The ROI Guy This blog is dedicated to the strategies and tools used by solution providers to better prove and improve the value of B2B solutions to frugal buyers - using diagnostic assessments, interactive white papers, ROI calculators and TCO comparisons. Wednesday, July 15, 2009 VMware launches Realized ROI toolkit, powered by Alinean Provides quantifiable proof to customers of the realized ROI from prior VMware deployments.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: Should You Get An MBA? Advice for.

HeavyHitter Sales

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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The Salesperson of The Future. Will They Truly Evolve and Be Different or Is it Just About Living It?

Keith Rosen

During a recent interview, I was asked, “What does the future hold for the work force, especially for salespeople? How will the salesperson of tomorrow change or be different to adapt to the times?” Of course, my visceral reaction was to come up with something so transformational and insightful that it would reshape the landscape of professional selling and salesmanship.

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Corporate Travel Declines 42% in Q2

BrainShark

Last night American Express (NYSE:AXP) reported (during their quarterly earnings call) a record corporate travel decline of 42%. This was well below analysts' expectations of 20-30% decline. Further, The Q2 corporate travel data also marks the fourth consecutive quarterly deceleration.

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Lose the Staples and Increase Sales

Sales Gravy

Have you ever considered that a single staple may be keeping you from your goal to increase sales? If you are curious and truly want to reap the rewards of all your hard efforts, then read on.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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New Partner Profitability Tool launched by Microsoft at Worldwide Partner Conference

The ROI Guy

A featured resource for Microsoft channel partners, the toolkit developed by Alinean helps partners determine the business case for launching new Microsoft based practices. Microsoft channel partners can use the new Partner Profitability tool to assess the potential revenue, investment, costs and margin of driving new practices with Microsoft based technology.

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Sales Techniques – Why Peristence Matters

SalesGrail

While we often want to use sales techniques that are quick and easy, persistence is a critical and all too often forgotten sales skill. The frustrating part of it, of course, is that we often don’t know when the pay off is - we have to learn to trust the sales process. In other words, some days, weeks, months we’re [.].

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: What are the Top 5 Sales Blogs?

HeavyHitter Sales

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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PODCAST: Why Coaching Initiatives Fail Within Organizations

Keith Rosen

Listen to the podcast here. There are several common themes I’ve noticed as to why coaching initiatives fail within organizations today. When companies attempt to upgrade their culture, generate more positive results and improve the attitude, performance and productivity of their people by launching a coaching initiative without truly recognizing the changes that must occur beforehand to ensure there’s a strong foundation that is ready to support it, their coaching efforts will be ma

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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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PODCAST: Coaching Mistakes Managers Make. What You Can Do To Improve Sales Performance and Drive Higher Sales Numbers Today

Keith Rosen

Listen to the podcast here. In this podcast interview I did with eyesonsales.com, I share some very tactical insights regarding some of the inherent challenges that managers need to overcome when coaching their salespeople and what they can do to better coach their team to sell more today. I also address how to best handle underperforming salespeople and the power of effective observation techniques when observing your people in the field or on the phone, whether they are delivering presentation

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PODCAST: Leadership Strategies That Motivate Your Team to Higher Performance

Keith Rosen

Listen to this podcast here. If you want your team to sell more, the driving question every manager needs to ask themselves is, “What am I doing each day to make my salespeople even more valuable and effective so that we can better retain and acquire new customers?” So, what are you doing to develop the skills and competencies that would enable you to get your salespeople to become sales champions?

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Are You Suffering From Sales Rage?

Sales Gravy

The slowing of the economy coupled with a now official bear market has many in business and especially in sales feeling these affects. Is it possible your frustration or rage may be showing? Road rage is pretty common to most people.

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Sales Through Storytelling

Sales Gravy

As a salesperson, you can craft vivid stories that help the listener (a.k.a., buyer) relate to what you do even before they share with you their issues.

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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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Assistant to the Buyer

Sales Gravy

Years ago, Marcel Proust wrote: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." How do you view yourself as a salesperson? What would happen if you changed that perspective?

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Postcards and Stamps vs. Fuel

Sales Gravy

To earn (notice I wrote earn and not close or make) a sale, begins with your ability to find and then nurture relationships. In today's market place, this is called relationship selling.

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

Sales Gravy

How many times have you experienced this scenario what I call the good, the bad and the ugly of sales? Be honest.

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Microsoft launches first server virtualization financial planning toolkit at Worldwide Partner Conference, developed by Alinean.

The ROI Guy

The program integrates the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit with Alinean ROI analysis for the first asset and configuration based ROI analysis of server virtualization. Microsoft's Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) can be used by organizations to monitor and assess servers for virtualization. Discovering server assets and then monitoring utilization, the real world performance information is used to help IT teams assess the best potential candidates for virtualization, and determine

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How to Optimize Call Monitoring: Automate QA and Elevate Customer Experience

Speaker: Laura Noonan, Chief Revenue Officer at CallFinder + Angie Kronlage, Director of Program Success at Working Solutions + April Wiita, Vice President of Program Success at Working Solutions

Are you still manually reviewing calls? 🤔 It's time for a change! The traditional method of manual call monitoring is no longer cutting it in today's fast-paced call center environment. Industry experts Angie Kronlage and April Wiita from Working Solutions are here to explore the power of innovative automation to revolutionize outdated call review processes!

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How much does it cost? - A Dreaded Question In Sales

Sales Gravy

Over the years I have learned that the sooner price is discussed in a conversation, the more of a focal point it becomes.

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Make new friends, but keep the old - 7 Tips For Effective Networking

Sales Gravy

In my 11 years of providing sales training courses and tools for successful sales and service, I have been on the receiving end of a LOT of bad attempts to network.

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Hidden Treasure In Your Lost Sales File

Sales Gravy

A study done by Marketing Metrics shows that we have a 20-40% chance of re-engaging a former customer vs. a 5-20% chance of turning a new prospect into a customer! Why is now a good time to focus on former customers?

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Two Keys to Great Client Relationships

Sales Gravy

Despite the advice given by so many trainers that being liked by prospects is the key to sales success and to strong client relationships, the fact is that being liked by prospects and clients is well down the list of characteristics necessary to est

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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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Can You Sell A Pencil?

Sales Gravy

So, what is the most effective way to sell a pencil? Well, first let’s look at how most sales reps go about doing it. When I’m interviewing sales reps I love using this technique.

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Sales Presentation Training – Belief in Your Product

SalesGrail

While good sales techniques and skills are important, sales presentation training starts with an unshakable belief in your product. No matter how good you are, if you’re not a believer in what you sell neither will your prospects. There’s no way around it and no way to hide it. Your true feelings will come out in your [.].

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Telephone Sales Skills – Are You Using Voice Mail Correctly?

SalesGrail

A critical aspect of good telephone sales skills is to know how to use voice mail. Use it wrong and you will lose more sales than you can shake a stick at. Here’s a brief overview of the when, how, and why of voice mail. When do you leave a voice mail? How many do you [.].

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