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Sunday, June 20, 2010

How Misreading the Buying Decision Could Cost You the Sale

Key lessons from Neil Rackham’s ‘Major Account Sales Strategy’ ‘Major Account Sales Strategy’ by Neil Rackham’s is a bible for the savvy sales professional.

Let’s Get Real, or Let’s Not Play – transforming the buyer-seller relationship

Relationships between buyers and sellers are often dysfunctional, often being motivated by fear .

How to Maximise the Success of Your Sales Calls

In the present environment, salespeople are delighted with the opportunity to meet with anybody who expresses an interest.

SELLING IS DEAD: Moving Beyond Traditional Roles and Practices to Revitalise Growth

The good news is that the market for your solution is much bigger than you think it is. The bad news is that you need a completely new way of selling in order to capitalize on it.

Thursday, June 17, 2010

The Best Way to Track & Manage Your Teleprospecting Calls

There are 3 ways to track and manage your telemarketing calls each with a different impact on the effectiveness and success.

10 reasons to ditch your spreadsheets and employ a SFA/CRM system

Increasingly managers complain about the difficulty of accurately predicting what deals will close and when. However in spite of a more complex sales environment, most organizations still rely on spreadsheets to manage opportunities and forecast sales. This short article outlines some of the key reasons why a more sophisticated approach is required.




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10 reasons to ditch your spreadsheets and employ a SFA/CRM system

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

All Marketing Is SPAM!

Have you checked your spam folder recently? No doubt it is full to the brim of Viagra ads, weight loss methods, casinos and such utterly worthless messages. However, today's definition of SPAM goes far beyond that of traditional junk mail to encompass most of today's marketing. That is to say most marketing is viewed by buyers as at best unhelpful, and at worse a nuisance.

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