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The Fall and Rise of the Sales Rep

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Companies that rely on processes and numbers will be driven to commodity status. Whereas companies that build relationships will differentiate and prosper.

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Abject Failure of CRM

CRM

Bottom line is there is something seriously wrong with this business. The product doesn’t stand up in the market, the pricing is out of line, and the marketing people must be on vacation, permanently. The sales guys are just collecting their salary until something better comes along.

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Spreadsheet CRM

CRM

One approach is infinitely flexible, although time consuming and sub-optimally efficient. The other is rigid and mostly driven by what other people want.

Ask yourself whether you’d rather spend time finding and winning new business, or fighting somebody else’s idea of what your CRM should work like.

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10 Strategies for Selling Better Prices

Sales Coach

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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Secret To Selling Enterprise Software

Sales Coach

The decision maker will turn into our “coach”, helping us understand the internal dynamics and pointing us at others we need to influence, and how to do it.

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Selling Business Services in a Recession

Sales Coach

“Value sharing” unlocks deals, increases revenue and margins, and locks in customers

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Relationships Are My “Running Shoes”

Sales Coach

In selling I don’t need to be the prospect’s brother in law to get an edge. I just need to have more of a relationship than my competitors.

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Increasing “Selling Time” Productivity

Sales Manager

Reps want to make more commissions. Managers want to maximize revenues. Owners want to spend more time on customer satisfaction. There are two schools of thought about just how to do this.

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Sales Qualification – Recruit a Coach

Sales Qualification

Having an internal coach is a critical success factor and a major milestone in our qualification process.

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