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Inc Magazine Gets it Wrong on Consultative Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

Understanding the Sales Force by Dave Kurlan Inc. Magazine ran an article on its website that I just can''t ignore. Forget for a minute that those of us in the sales development space (he calls us pundits) have been trying to help companies and their sales teams transition from a transactional to a consultative approach for years.

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The Next Big Prediction in B2B Sales

SBI Growth

Mike Drapeau is famous for looking into the dusty corners of sales productivity. Sales leaders hire Mike to fix revenue shortfalls before they happen. For example, Sales VPs at HP, Phillips 66, and Dow Jones have relied on Mike’s advice to make their quotas. He wrote the book on sales benchmarking before most had heard the term.

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This may hit your Sweetspot

Sales 2.0

It’s a framework aimed at getting you access, setting up those oh-so-important initial sales meetings. I first created this framework from stressing out about the lousy results my inside sales team was getting cold calling. Obviously this makes plenty of sense given many sales people are on the move all the time.

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Marketing Automation is Not Marketing Strategy

Pointclear

Marketers thought that the new CRM software would solve their customer service and customer retention problems. Not only was it a nightmare to get up and running, the software served only to automate the processes—good or bad—that companies already had in place. Expectations dashed. So education campaigns are underway.

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Heavy Hitter Sales Blog: IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS.

HeavyHitter Sales

Heavy Hitter Sales Blog. Closing Techniques Using Sales Linguistics. Top 7 Critical Sales Trends for 2012. IT Sales Strategy: Software, SaaS & Hardware Sales. Best New Sales Book of 2011. If Sigmund Freud Was Your Sales Manager. Four Critical Sales Kickoff Meeting Success Factors.

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PowerViews with Nick Stein: The Role of Games in the Sales Office

Pointclear

Companies must take the lead and make sure their sales people are familiar with the new paradigm, says my latest guest on PowerViews, Nick Stein, senior director of marketing and communications at Salesforce.com, the enterprise cloud software heavyweight. Youth Meets Experience in Sales Force. That has pros and cons, Nick said.

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Smart Selling Tools Digital Magazine is out! 9 Top Sales Executives Answer This Very Important Question.

SBI

. “a potential game changer that could revitalize the entire US aerospace industry” There have never been as many game-changing sales technologies as there are today. What we call the 4 Golden Goals of sales organizations. RO Innovation’s platform changes the game by activating customer advocacy end-to-end in sales cycles.