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Fueling Sales by Building the Best Sales Engine (Part 2)

Part 2 of 2 In my 25+ years of Sales Management, I have identified five keys to “SALES” that make the most impact, yet unfortunately are often the most underappreciated and underinvested areas of sales. S – Sales Process A – A+ Sales Talent L – Leadership E – Effectiveness S – Sales Compensation Plans In part 1 we focused on the first two keys, Sales Process and A+ Sales Talent. You can read about how they impact your bottom line here. Today, we will focus on the last three items. Leadership Who the heck manages all of this? Most …

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Exit Planning for Modern Leaders: How to Determine Your Company’s Worth

The past couple of years have seen a number of CEOs and company owners exiting their posts, from Disney CEO Bob Iger in February 2020 to Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani in February 2021. These moves, as well as the ideas and motivations behind them, have cast a new light on one of the most crucial business fundamentals: exit planning. One of the often-overlooked components of leadership and success, this should be an integral part of a business plan from the start, because how you exit can have a major influence on your business’s ultimate goals and provide it with a clear future direction. …

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Defining a sales process and hiring great salespeople are the first steps in addressing the SALES keys that will have a lasting effect on your bottom line.
Hiring/Onboarding

Fueling Sales by Building the Best Sales Engine (Part 1)

Part 1 of 2 Many business owners think that in order to grow their sales they simply need to hire more salespeople. I always joke that this is like improving your marriage by having more kids – without the proper foundation, you are doomed to fail. In my 25+ years of sales management, I have identified five keys to “SALES” that make the most impact, yet unfortunately are often the most underappreciated and underinvested areas of sales. S – Sales Process A – A+ Sales Talent L – Leadership E – Effectiveness S – Sales Compensation Plans Today we will …

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Competition

Gaining a Competitive Advantage in the New B2B Buyer Funnel

Before business prospects make a purchasing decision, they embark on a business-to-business (B2B) “buyer’s journey” that places them squarely into the seller’s “buyer funnel.” For many years, this journey was often simple and of short duration; you might say that purchasing decisions were more impulsive, with buyers often trusting their gut. But then things began to change, slowly at first and then more rapidly until the entire B2B buyer’s journey paradigm shifted. For sellers, this new B2B funnel is changing the way customers are targeted, connections are made and maintained, and sales are converted. What’s changed? How does the buyer …

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Odell Beckham Jr. and Your Sales Organization’s Success

What can your sales and leadership teams learn from an NFL wide receiver’s journey? Let’s discuss… The 2022 Los Angeles Rams are a great organizational success story. There have been a significant number of articles written on the organization’s “emotional intelligence,” leadership style, and the belief in the vision of the entire organization. But to understand how their success relates to your sales organization, it is necessary to look at one player’s journey: Odell Beckham Jr. (OBJ). OBJ is a classic example of the concept of “right people – right seat” for the Rams (with whom he won Super Bowl …

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4 Tips for Using a Sales Process to Improve Your Wins

In everyday life, we use terms like “habits,” “patterns,” or “routines” to describe common behaviors we follow. And we follow them mainly because they work. In sales, these habits or routines, better known as “best practices,” originate from trial and error and represent the shortest known path to sales success. Read more at destinationcrm.com. Related posts: No related posts.

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