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I’m Not That Good of a Salesperson

Adaptive Business Services

Looking back, about the only selling skill that I really excelled at was product knowledge and I could give one hell of a good demo. 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. A prospecting epiphany.

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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.