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Clients Partners Customers and Clowns

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How Clients are different to Customers and can they become Clowns is a case study worth understanding. It’s a story illustrating how consultants can find themselves drawn into circumstances they’d rather avoid but somehow can’t. Business can often work out to be much tougher than it should be, simply because the other guys are idiots. [...]

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7 Measures of Sales Performance in Relationship Management

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A measure of relationship management is a crucial element of sales performance.  Once the customer relationship has been established, the sales guys job should be about driving more value from it.  This isn’t just the age old difference between hunters and farmers.  Sales reps charged with farming an account should also be hunting out new [...]

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The Difference Between Small Business and Big Business

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What’s the difference between a big business and a small business? Long time ago, a CEO explained to me the only difference between big business and small business was the number of 0s after the number. At the time his concept seemed to make sense, but that was 40 years ago. After years of business [...]

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10 Strategies for Selling Better Prices

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Tactics for selling at higher prices don’t get the airtime they should but all sales people should get trained in these techniques. Think about this for a heartbeat – lifting a sales price by 10% in most businesses doubles the net profit. Selling at higher prices is the fastest and easiest way to improve a [...]

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