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Rapidly growing 'social media" sites have the challenge of maintaining a "social" experience with their users while balancing the business realities of a growing site. Too big a gap between experience and expectations could leave users dissatisfied. Read More
What if I could teach you a Zen-like balance between sales productivity and social media opportunity? Let’s try... Read More
Sales effectiveness is made up of executing well on the fundamentals of human effectiveness and sales effectiveness. All of the attributes that make up effectiveness can be improved, but effectiveness can’t be found in gimmicks, shortcuts, tricks, or secrets. Instead, it is found in blocking and tackling. Read More
Think you can effectively do two things at once? Think again! Brad Trnavsky and Jerry Kennedy discuss the myth of multi-tasking and its effect on the quality of your work. Read More
Sherlock Holmes had a remarkable ability for finding out what sort of people he was dealing with, through powers of close observation.

The salesperson must understand his customer, and his understanding must be based on facts. Read More

How to Use Social Media for Competitive Intelligence

Avatar Posted by billrice under Social Media
From http://bettercloser.com 5354 days ago
Made Hot by: sannwood on March 31, 2010 9:34 am
Competitive intelligence is first and foremost about understanding your competitor’s strategy. To do this you need to gain insight into their products, services, finances, partners, and customers. In today’s increasingly open and social Web, there are few better places to gather all of this important data than from social media. Read More
It is important to monitor events within your client companies and your dream client companies. But, by itself, triggers are not enough. They make you look like an opportunist, and it is better to have built relationships, spent time within the organization, and to have a real understanding of their dissatisfaction. Read More

Some Breathing Room Please!

Avatar Posted by SalesBlogcast under Sales
From http://salesblogcast.com 5354 days ago
Made Hot by: wendyweiss on March 31, 2010 3:18 am
Why do sales people have such an intense desire to do things their own way?

Where do leaders draw the line? How do they distinguish between the times when they should give their people some space and when it’s time to reign them in? Read More
A successful sales manager has to coach his/her team members to success. This is a special challenge when a manager who was a "farmer" is faced with coaching reps how to "hunt". Read More
The word “simple” means that something is not complicated. It doesn’t mean that something is without difficulty. Selling is difficult. Here are five simple (but not easy) ways you can sell more. Read More
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