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The 21 New Sales Core Competencies for Modern Selling

Understanding the Sales Force

The biggest changes since our original set of 21 Core Competencies in 1994 are the inclusion of categories that compliment our dashboards as well as the inclusion of Sales Posturing and Social Selling. In its essence, social selling is really a component of marketing for which many more salespeople are now taking individual responsibility.

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The Crucial Selling Skill That Nobody Talks About

Understanding the Sales Force

Earlier this week I received an unsolicited email from the founder of a company who introduced himself and asked me to try his new tool for speakers. By itself, this was not unusual because I receive 20-25 unsolicited emails per day.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

And we have the convergence of information overwhelm, increased sources of distraction, accelerating change, and skyrocketing complexity–in our customers markets, in their own organizations, with competition/partners, and within our own organization. Also, these are the easiest applications of AI/ML technologies.

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A Hiring Guide for the New ‘A’ Player

SBI Growth

Timing the market by switching out one rep for the other ‘over the weekend.’. Every year we compile research for our Sales & Marketing Research Review. The Sales Rep Replacement Guide is a robust tool that: Enables you to ‘switch’ out sales reps without a disruption to the team. This is called sales hiring gymnastics.

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[Message to Management]: Your Team Is Wasting Your Time

No More Cold Calling

Perhaps you didn’t equip them with the skills and tools to do their job. So if you’ve provided all the tools and training they need to succeed long-term, and they’re still more trouble than they’re worth, it’s time to make some tough decisions. Get rid of deadwood as fast as you can. Well, maybe not so fast.

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How B2B Reps Use Social Debt to Get Sales Support

SBI Growth

Online networks such as LinkedIn provide tools that facilitate social gifting. This Social Selling skill works with your customers and prospects. Sales Support includes groups in Product, Marketing, Care, Legal, and Research. Product and Marketing folks are stretched across multiple initiatives (well.the best ones are).

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Sales Skill-Sets vs Sales Tool-Sets

SBI

So it’s not surprising that each time I talk with my friends on the sales training front, they tell me that the path to increasing sales is to improve selling skills. Of course, my retort is that you won’t increase sales if you don’t have the right tools to compete more efficiently and effectively.