There was a great freshness in the conversations, there was real power in the tools, a great euphoria around engaging buyers in the way they want to buy--all while driving sales and marketing performance to new levels.
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Steeling Myself For The Aftermath Of DreamForce
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4683 days ago
Will You Let Me Buy, Rather Than Trying To Sell To Me!
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4684 days ago
Today, I was doing some research on upgrading a product I currently used. I wasn't sure about what would be included in the new release, consequently,
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Finding The Time
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4685 days ago
Many of us, managers and non-managers get caught up in the activities of our jobs. I struggle with it myself. Somehow momentum seems to take over, we seem to be doing more, but accomplishing less. At the end of the week, we wonder where the time went.
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Performance Management Friday -- Funnel Balance
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4689 days ago
Funnel Balance is having an appropriate distribution of opportunities at all stages of the sales cycle. Another way people may look at Funnel Balance is when they refer to the shape of the funnel. Funnel Balance enables us to balance the short term, tactical, with the longer term.
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Strategic Thinking, Getting The Big Picture
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4691 days ago
Strategic thinking, understanding the big picture,, is the way top sales professionals approach every aspect of their job, it's what separates them people chasing transactions.
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Opportunity Solving
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4692 days ago
Sales people need to be opportunity solvers. Sales people need to help their customers see what they can't see. Sales people need to change the conversation--to move beyond just talking about problems, but to helping their customers discover new opportunities.
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Personal Productivity-CRM and Sales 2.0, Critical For Success!
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4693 days ago
I can't imagine a high performing sales person not leveraging these tools (I'll use CRM, but include the array of Sales 2.0 tools within that) to their utmost. The demands on our time are so great, that we need to leverage as many tools as possible to maximize our effectiveness and efficiency.
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Performance Metric Friday - Compressing Your Sales Cycle
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4696 days ago
Last week, I wrote about Pipeline Flow and Velocity. A good measure of the flow is to look at the sales cycle in days, and whether opportunities are stalled in certain stages. But the sales cycle is one of the most powerful personal productivity metrics available to sales people. Focusing on reduc
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Sales, It's Just A Numbers Game
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4701 days ago
I was really busy, my time was filled. I start each day with my list. I dialed 100 numbers, 80 were voicemails, 15 hung up on me, 4 listened, 1 said he'd
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Performance Metric Friday - Pipeline Flow/Velocity
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From http://partnersinexcellenceblog.com 4703 days ago
There's a problem with this, however. if you have the right number of deals in your funnel--but they aren't moving, then you just won't make your number. You can't just be moving deals into the pipeline or funnel, they have to be moving through the pipeline . This is generally called pipeline flow
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