Business hasn’t always favored the idea of collaboration. It wasn’t that long ago that a card file system was a primary sales tool in many companies.
We know now that sharing information on goals and common experiences between owners, managers, and employees can make a big difference when it...
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When it comes time for the new year, there’s no shortage of articles about resolutions, inspiration, goal-setting, and tips for the future. And what better time to evaluate your successes and failures than when the calendar rolls back to January 1st? While it might seem tedious and repetitive,...
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A dashboard is a single screen that tracks a number of key metrics in real time. For sales and marketing, this is a place where the entire revenue creation team tracks your progress and collaborates around opportunities.
Here are nine principles to create killer dashboards. As you'll...
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Thank goodness the days have passed when office motivational posters consisted of bold words like "Teamwork" under generic lifestyle photography of a rowing crew. Was anyone actually inspired by those? I struggle to picture Jack Dorsey or Larry Page (really any of today's major...
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I was talking to my friend, Jonathan Farrington from Top Sales World, a couple of days before Christmas. He said, "While 70% of the buying process might be completed by the buyer today before a sales executive needs to get involved, 100% of the job of selling still...
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Have you set goals for your business in 2014? Is accelerating your sales funnel somewhere on that list? If not, it certainly should be. Not only does a shorter sales cycle enable you to close deals faster, it also saves time, leads to a more unified relationship between marketing and sales...
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With buyers being more educated and research-driven than ever before, understanding when and how they think is crucial to closing your next deal. After all, timing is everything so wouldn't it be great to know exactly when to pick up the phone?
As expected, B2B buyer activity and research...
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Customers will always want to challenge price and, for that matter, anything and everything for the sake of trying to get a better deal. But there's a right way and a wrong way to go about getting the sale. Here are eight confessions of how I made the wrong sales moves. Learn from them...
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New year. Fresh start. Fresh hopes. Unfortunately for many salespeople and business owners, those hopes will be crushed pretty quickly in 2014 if they fall into the same critical traps they did in 2013.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about the sort of mistakes novices or bad...
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