Creating an effective, efficient, and reliable action plan to increase sales is the Holy Grail for all sales teams.
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Cold calling can be a daunting prospect. The thought that you are a calling a person unannounced and hoping they will listen to you long enough to introduce yourself is...
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The IDC predicted that within just 2 years, 72% of the US workforce will be ‘mobile’ as the rest of the work population catches up with the sales profession, for whom over 70%...
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The information age delivers us an unending stream of sales-related metrics. But when it comes to sales performance management, does this torrent of data leave you happily...
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Sales kickoffs have a cluster of important goals: Motivational, inspirational, informational, educational and strategic to cite just a few. Little wonder then that the impact...
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Over the next 4.5 minutes, you’ll decide whether this was a great article, just about worthwhile or a complete waste of your valuable time - appreciating you may make that...
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This blog post first appeared on LinkedIn.
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One of the most enlightening things was said to me by a prospect last week on one of my sales calls, when I asked about how seriously their managers take coaching within their...
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Let’s face it, we all make bad hiring decisions - at least with the benefit of hindsight. Whilst we may strive for sifting and recruitment strategies that should leave us with...
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Email outreach is a component of sales that, in these days of widespread automation and technical wizardry, is often under-appreciated and frankly taken for granted. Make no...
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Sales reps who receive just 3 hours coaching a month, boost their revenue by 17% according to a study by the Sales Executive Council. So I was keen to see how much that could...
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Saturday morning’s normally start the same way for me, a cup of tea on the sofa with a peruse of the paper followed by James Martin’s Saturday Kitchen whilst I think up my...
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In a previous blog I posted on SaaScribe, I banged the drum for the average sales person – hiring a team of rock stars may be an aspired goal, but its not a realistic one where...
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We’ve been on somewhat of a hiring drive here recently at Refract. With hiring new sales guys comes the responsibility of getting reps up to speed as quick as possible. I speak...
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How much does it cost to create a qualified opportunity in your business?
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Yesterday was International Women’s Day. I’m sorry to admit that I only knew that because Google told me (good old Google). Now, I’m in sales and so my first thought was...
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Looking beyond Minimum Acceptable Standards and making every evaluated call result in performance improvement.
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Last week I spent some time with a Senior Head of Enablement at a Fortune 500 company, understanding their current approach to sales coaching. I went through some key...
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Are you a manager? If you are, it’s very possible that you spend at least a small part of your otherwise-extremely-busy day putting out fires and scraping deadlines lamenting...
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“Getting an audience is hard. Sustaining an audience is hard. It demands a consistency of thought, of purpose, and of action over a long period of time.”-Bruce Springsteen What...
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