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5 Psychology Tips From An FBI Hostage Negotiator That Will Make You Sell Better

Sales Hacker

Voss had an epiphany of sorts upon leaving the Bureau; he realized that several of the skills he’d learned and honed ‘in the wild’ during hostage negotiations were directly relevant – and essential – to the business arena. Chris Voss served as a hostage negotiator at the FBI for close to a quarter of a century.

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Sales Tips: Making Sense Of Vague Advice

Customer Centric Selling

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. IBM taught me about hardware and software and I mistakenly thought my job was to educate buyers. Some scotch was involved and ultimately the epiphany came.

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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?

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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?

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Winning Big Deals - Everything You Need to Know

Tony Hughes

In 2005 I was running the Australian region of a global software company and we did three of the four biggest deals globally for the corporation. It works with your existing tools and it's not really a sales methodology but instead a meta-framework for managing complex selling. Here is the inside scoop on how we did it.

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Lessons in Sales Leadership with Alice Heiman

Mindtickle

Having that diverse background, what really drew you to the world of sales specifically? Alice : I think that I had an epiphany. I’m not sure exactly where it was because at first I was not really thinking of it as, “Oh, I’m going into a career in sales.” Obviously, the connection with Miller Heiman is huge.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

A people person with extensive C-Level experience in enterprise software, business development and operations. In 2005 I co-founded Altify, a Dublin-based global SaaS business focusing on sales and sales best practices. I exited to pursue other interests after Upland Software acquired the company in 2019.

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