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How Can Business Owners Manage Sales People

For business owners managing sales people can be a problem. Selling can seem a black art, with its own concept’s, language and rules. How can anybody who doesn’t understand the black art manage staff who do? Meanwhile entrepreneurs need sales people to grow their business, and therefore they need to manage them. In this article [...]

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What Makes a Superstar Sales Manager

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What do great sales managers do differently from the merely good sales managers? How do they stand out from the crowd when the head hunters start looking around? When the recession bites, or when market dynamics go against them, how do they keep their jobs while all about them are losing theirs? Good sales managers [...]

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Sales Strategy for Handling Price Objections

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Does your sales strategy include the use of price as a strategic tool for helping control conversations with customers and closing deals? And I don’t mean using discount to win deals! The critical success factor for most businesses is price integrity. Maximise your prices and a healthy bottom line just naturally follows. The reverse is [...]

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3 Simple Tools For Small Business Success

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A sales management process and the right tools for small business selling will increase your chances of succeeding as an entrepreneur. We’ve talked about a number of philosophies and concepts to help small business owners make the most of their opportunities in this blog. But there are 3 which stand out as simple to understand, [...]

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So You Think You Can Sell, Do You?

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There’s no shortage of advice for small business owners, especially for starting up or growing their business. But advice to learn how to sell is rarely mentioned. Surprising really because the mistake 95% of small business owners make is thinking they’re able to sell their services, when they don’t know what they’re doing. Why is [...]

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Key Step in Starting a Business is Sales Training

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Starting your own business is exciting, and challenging, and very hard work. Made much harder by the fact that small business owners are invariably strong in their particular expertise but weak in business management skills, particularly in sales. They need training, and especially sales training. Building a small business is even harder, because the sales [...]

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Change The Point of Competition to Control The Sale

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Do you position competition for your prospects, as part of your sales strategy? If so how do you that, and does it work for you? Do you focus on major differentiators or those minor points the others won’t think relevant? In the good old days we were always told not to say anything bad about [...]

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Our Sales Strategy for Social Media – So Far

Sales Strategies and Tactics

Our business needs a sales strategy for social media. We decided yesterday. Now the hard work of defining what that strategy should be. Which media should we use for what content, and or engagement, and how often. Should we publish, or monitor and converse? Should we be proactive or reactive? How much time should we [...]

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Yes We Do Need a Social Media Sales Strategy

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Image via CrunchBase We definitely need a strategy for social media based selling. Like it or loathe it, the new paradigm is here to stay. We’ll either take advantage of its opportunities, or suffer its threats. But exploiting social media for selling isn’t simple. We’ve spent the last two years trying to understand where, and [...]

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