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Is Your Sales Training Tethered to the Stone Age?

Increase Sales

Recently I spoke with a potential client who shared with me in had invested $80,000 in sales training over the course of three (3) years. Further discussion revealed this expensive sales training focused on technical sales skills and failed to address the people side of selling or people skills. It did not increase sales.

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A Get-Well Plan for Sales Ops in the New Year

SBI Growth

This work also includes data governance and process flows. Training: Have you given your team the right training? Some people just need the right information and training to become more productive. If budgets are tight, have your superstars conduct mini trainings. All interactions align to this view.

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B2G sales: How tiny startups can sell to government agencies

Close.io

Here's how a tiny company started closing huge deals with federal government agencies—and how you too can get started in B2G (business-to-government) sales. B2G stands to business-to-government. It simply means that a business is selling its products or services to the government. Why sell to the government?

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The Downside of Experience

The Pipeline

Taken to the extreme, especially in unionized environments, you end up with seniority being a synonym for experience, and an increase in struggling businesses that are experienced, but out of touch, and out of business, or owned by the government, how is that Chevy? In sales the risk is real, and all to present in many organizations.

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The Best Way to Sell Is With a Story

Sales and Marketing Management

They’ve been through it so many times they can rattle off the typical objections from customers and prospects: “I don’t have time to hear this pitch”. Storytelling gives a prospect a compelling reason to hear you out. Early stage prospects often gravitate toward videos and short, educational demonstrations. Closing the deal.

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My Top 21 Keys to Help Your Sales Force Dominate Today

Understanding the Sales Force

Here are my top 5 examples of salespeople who are busy, but not very successful: They spend long hours researching companies and prospects, reach out on LinkedIn, send InMails, emails and make calls, but have few takers for meetings. Can they be trained to do things more effectively or, if necessary, in a completely different way?

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The Coming Customer Data Tsunami: 3 Predictions for 2019

DiscoverOrg Sales

Most conversations around big data reference healthcare data, GPS/location data, data within government and education systems, financial data – all personal information at the consumer level. TOPO’s research suggests that, as Intent Data goes mainstream and becomes more integrated, it will become part of the prospect lifecycle.

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