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New business owners need to be ready to invest in the future in order to realize success.
Competition

Success – 4 Key Investments New Business Owners Should Make

If you want to stand up ideas that could make you millions, you must be willing to invest in 4 key areas.

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Small business owner researching winning sales practices.
Entrepreneur/Startup

Sales Agility: The Secret to Successful Small Businesses

For any company to be successful over a long period, it has to be agile. Markets change, partnerships evolve, and employees come and go — and companies need to pivot quickly to keep up. Sales agility, specifically, should always be top of mind. A sales department’s ability to be nimble and adjust to all external environments is a key to handling any changes that come its way. The ideal level of agility follows the Goldilocks principle. Instead of “not too hot, not too cold,” think of it as a “not too structured, not too off the cuff” happy medium. Companies …

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Salespeople need to build strong referral networks full of people who want to help each other.
Published Articles

Business2Community – Best Practices to Strengthen and Maximize Your Referral Network

Building a large network is not enough to sustain your growth. You also need to find referral partners who want help.

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Salespeople having virtual interactions with prospects
Published Articles

Entrepreneur – If You’re Not Looking at These 3 Things You’re Not Optimizing Sales

Customer behaviors have changed, which have in turn, changed sales strategies and goals to include virtual interactions.

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Sales Goals Meeting
Entrepreneur/Startup

How to Achieve Your Business Goals with Individual Salesperson Goals

  If you want to know how to achieve your business goals by strengthening your sales team performance, it pays to understand the importance of individual salesperson goals. Simply put, properly established individual salesperson goals can and should make it easier for the entire sales team to attain overall measures of sales success. Unfortunately, without specific strategies for achieving goals, individual salesperson goals sometimes end up at odds with sales team and business goals; this can make it difficult to increase sales and maintain a positive sales team culture. Let’s look at how achieving business goals via individual salesperson goals …

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Sales Leadership Meeting
Competition

How Fractional Leadership Helps Businesses Pivot to a New Normal

A crisis can change everything. Whether it’s a broad-based economic collapse or a pandemic or even a competitor’s new disruptive technology that dramatically shifts your market landscape, the aftermath of a crisis usually brings a “new normal.” Facing this reality means adopting new thinking, implementing new approaches, and perhaps even tightening budgets and reducing staff levels. Companies that embrace the new normal must be agile instead of fragile. If they can achieve that, they can not only survive, but thrive. But how can they make the pivot from a non-competitive status quo to this new normal of expanding success? It …

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