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Trap Tales – Obstacles to Success

Pipeliner

Epiphany breakthroughs get you to a new level of thinking. John is the Amazon bestselling author of Winning the Battle for Sales: Lessons on Closing Every Deal from the World’s Greatest Military Victories and Social Upheaval: How to Win at Social Selling. The process of life cannot speed up in an instantaneous results culture.

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Sales Tips: Making Sense Of Vague Advice

Customer Centric Selling

After graduating from college, IBM spent a year teaching me about computers for the SMB market, business fundamentals and selling skills. My sales manager frightened new people into making the prescribed number of calls, but did little to impact the quality of calls that we made. It was a mountain to climb.

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I’m Not That Good of a Salesperson

Adaptive Business Services

Despite my shortcomings, in less that two years I was promoted to sales manager and until twelve years ago, all I did was manage sales reps. As a manager (and as a salesperson), I had my pluses and minuses. A prospecting epiphany. Sometimes I was patient but, more often, I was not.

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How Proactive Listeners Sell More, Coach Better and Win Big – Part 1

Keith Rosen

This includes inferior products, services, resources, sales processes, CRM’s, closing techniques, technology, presentation tools, your sales cycle even a mediocre sales team. Okay, maybe not the epiphany you’re looking for yet, right? Nothing new and mind-blowing? Keep reading. Chances are, your answer is no.

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The Unlikely Lesson a Karate Master Taught Me About Sales

Chili Piper

I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. There were times as a sales rep where I could have immediately made the buyer’s life better but didn’t. Why do we do this to each other? Slow lead response times.

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Winning Big Deals - Everything You Need to Know

Tony Hughes

You need to wire a bias for yourself into their requirements so that the document that eventually comes to market, in the form of tender or RFP/RFQ, favors you 'between the lines'. It works with your existing tools and it's not really a sales methodology but instead a meta-framework for managing complex selling.

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The Unlikely Lesson a Karate Master Taught Me About Sales

Chili Piper

I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. There were times as a sales rep where I could have immediately made the buyer’s life better but didn’t. Why do we do this to each other? Slow lead response times.