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The Complexities of Selling Technology to Business

The Pipeline

Selling to business can be a great profession for talented sales people who want to work in ‘big time’ sales. Especially as you work with medium and large size companies, B2B sales can mean large transactions and more opportunity to showcase advanced selling skills. Long Sales Cycles. Uneducated Buyers.

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Inside Sales Power Tip 115 – Be Social

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An example would be a sales rep in telecommunications understanding where their telecom and data prospects (and customers) spend time online – so they can see and hear them talking about what’s new with employees bringing devices from home and how that might factor into data issues at their clients’ corporate offices.

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Believe It or Not Everyone Is In Sales

Increase Sales

Years ago when facilitating some customer service training and development for a telecommunications firm, one of the participants (a customer service technician) flatly said he was not in sales. Once he realized that everyone is in sales and being in sales is a positive, he became the star of the customer service training.

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Head Shaving to Fight Cancer, Part 2

Score More Sales

I posted last week how I would be shaving my head to help fight cancer alongside one of my clients, Granite Telecommunications. Before I go back to normal sales business, I just wanted to update everyone – due to such tremendous sharing about this story. (See The event happened yesterday – and the results are in.

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Hanging Up Not the Best for Future Sales Referrals

Increase Sales

Believe it or not I was hung up by a salesperson who made it a very clear he was seeking sales referrals after he had sold me on his solution. What prompted this action does require sharing of the events leading up to this not the best sales referral strategy. Would I make a sales referral to this salesperson ever again.

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12 Sales Metrics that Matter Most-Harvard Business Review

HeavyHitter Sales

Here’s one of my recent Harvard Business Review articles titled the THE 12 SALES METRICS THAT MATTER MOST.     Sales is both an art and a science. Below, you will find twelve of these key sales metrics that benchmark sales organization performance, structure, and effectiveness. million and software was $3.2

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Welcome, Gen A: The Age of Automation for Sales and Marketing is Here

Zoominfo

Yet a similar phenomenon has already happened with another technology: sales and marketing automation. . But more than 30 years later, we are still talking about these same productivity gains — and automation remains elusive for many sales and marketing teams. Why has automation failed to gain traction despite its obvious promise?

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