Marketing

How To Be Successful in Sales – Without Being Great

Do good customers buy from bad sales people? How come there are so many really bad sales people making money in this world when the professional guys are finding life hard? If you’re the CEO and wondering why that difficult, unsociable, lazy, good for nothing rep makes more money than you do? Or if you’re [...]

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Best of the Business Internet – July 30th.

Business Internet

Actually this is a “best of” covering the last two weeks. Somehow I never got to the newsletter last week so we’ll cover both this time around – keeping my comments to a minimum. It’s my update so I can choose my own stuff, of course. In 11 Ways We Solve Your Business Infomation Problems [...]

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Simple CRM B/S

CRM

Simple CRM is an oxymoron – a contradiction in terms in the same phrase. Anybody needing Simple CRM should be protected from the snake oil being promoted by the morons pitching it. They don’t have what it takes to make the concept work. CRM is a business process, not an instant answer to disappointing sales [...]

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Do You Have An Inbound Marketing Sales Strategy

Business Internet

Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr Do you have an Inbound Marketing Sales Strategy. How did you develop it and how well does it work? How do you know? Surely marketing is marketing and sales is sales. The two are different beasts – aren’t they? The question arises because an organisation I’m associated [...]

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Selling Gets Harder Every Day

Business Internet

In the race to the bottom selling gets harder each day and the customer always wins. Selling anything these days is harder than it used to be. The noble (some would say black) art of sales is supposed to be easier. With all these possibilities for meeting and influencing customers in blogs and social networks [...]

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Best of the Business Internet July 12

Business Internet

We monitor the blogosphere for interesting articles about using the Internet for business and each week present our Best of the Business Internet newsletter. This week we publish the article in the blog for the first time. If you like it, let us know and we’ll keep doing it – otherwise get your own Front [...]

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4 Sales Tools to Increase Productivity

Sales Manager

Four simple Sales Tools can make the difference between the average sales performer and the Ninja superstar. They have nothing to do with clever tricks or motivating philosophies. They have everything to do with being organised, focused and productive. Anybody responsible for sales, from the raw recruit to the Managing Consultant, will produce more revenue [...]

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CEO Guide to Sales Management – Introduction

Surviving Sales Management

The CEO rarely has any experience of sales management. The boss typically has a finance or maybe operations background. That’s probably because sales managers, (and the sales guys they started out as) have a different skill set. Getting the best out of others through collaboration, communication and compromise isn’t what sales people typically do. They’re [...]

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Seth’s Blog: 16 questions for free agents

Starting a business

What’s in your value proposition? Can you explain in clear terms what you’ll do (and what you won’t do) and how it benefits you? Can you explain in terms your customer will understand why people choose you over the competition and how they’re better off, because they did? Here’s a list of questions entrepreneurs or [...]

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Talk About Money Early and Price Late

Sales Coach

Image via Wikipedia Price, Cost and Money Price is usually the first question asked by the prospect, and needs to be the last answered by the sales rep. The sales guy should sell on cost and close on price. If that doesn’t sound like a customer friendly strategy I’ll understand. Refusing to answer customer questions [...]

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