Sales Reps who are really Order-Takers won’t convert at the level they should with buyers who need to speak with industry experts who add value, show a deeper buyer understanding and who have the status of trusted adviser. Consultative selling, solution selling, being an educator, leader, creative source for the buyer is exactly what order takers fail to deliver. What’s having order-takers in your sales team costing you?
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Sales management training and sales leadership training is a key stepping stone in helping sales managers and sales leaders to get the most from their sales teams. Sales management training is the fastest way to get new ideas, insights and wisdom into your business. After all, helping key sales team leaders to fully unleash the…
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Increasing Sales Results – What to do Before Selecting Your B2B Sales Training Courses There are lots of ways of increasing sales results, you could: Focus on bigger deals Increase, or decrease prices Sort out your incoming sales funnel and sales lead generation Only chase good quality business with your clearly defined perfect prospect profile…
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When Did Sales Get So Complicated? Simple sales plan? Does anyone still run one of these? It’s a rare day now, on opening my inbox without getting a flood of information on new sales techniques, tips on how to be a better influencer, how to close every deal first time and make all your prospects swoon…
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In Sales YOU have as much chance of winning as losing. Where you engage in meaningful and relevant sales activity… You have as much chance of getting a customer as getting a rejection. You have as much chance of succeeding as failing. Your chances are equal. Need more proof? The Equal Odds Rule was published…
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Strategy and Sales Business Plans – Questioning the Reality Strategy Overload, Strategy BS and Strategy Words Without Meaning!! I’ve seen it all over the last 4 months. I spent three weeks in summer looking through some very ambitious sales strategy and business plans for a company that has huge ambition and even bigger potential. Huge potential….
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How to Improve Sales Performance: The Friday Sales Rant! You’d be surprised what businesses will do to improve sales performance. You’d be surprised the lengths they’ll go to, the resources they’ll commit and the efforts they’ll expend all in an effort to improve sales performance. Selling their soul? No…but not far off. So, why, why, why,…
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Sales Performance Improvement – Habit Beats Knowledge Every Single Time Sales Performance Improvement is the key driver for continuous sales improvement…but you know what kills many sales improvement plans? The key people involved forget that it’s not about what they KNOW and it’s all about what they DO! And that absolute mindset is the reason…
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Sales Performance – What Do You Really, Really Want? Sales Performance – the puzzle for anyone in sales management. Bigger? More? Faster? But what does Sales Performance means to you, and how do you measure it? I ask this question a lot. Every business and sales leader I know wants better sales performance. Every single…
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Competitive strategy allows you lots of options. Competitive strategy takes more than simply dropping the price. Discover how lowering price is not the best differentiator when you’re trying to boost sales, profits and market share, and why simply distracting the market with cheaper prices is the last thing you should do.
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