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Seller Engagement, Are We Asking Ourselves The Right Questions?

Partners in Excellence

” We see people (even experts) posing questions like, “How do we reduce our dependency on field sales–or sellers of all types?” ” Others revel in the fact that customers want to minimize seller engagement, preferring digital buying. How do we automate more? How do we leverage less expensive talent?”

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Sales Targets – 2 Reasons You Won’t Hit This Year’s Target

Klozers

. Focus on this for 90 days and remove all the ‘ Displacement Activity ; and hitting your sales targets will be easy. He was certainly busy, but it was no surprise that he never hit his sales targets. Some less obvious displacement activity you might want to check are Sales Professionals writing proposals that never close.

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“Empathy is a superpower in marketing and sales”: A Q&A with Brian Carroll of Markempa

Nutshell

If you remember, Jerry had this revelation in the movie. ” If you’re in marketing and you’re listening to this, get out in the field with your sales team. BRIAN CARROLL: Anyone who’s done something for a while has these moments that put you on a new path. He wakes up in the morning, and it’s 2 a.m.