Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Dave Stein
I was asked by my friend Charlie Green representing The Customer Collective to contribute to an e-book that was just published. I recommend that you download it, read it and use it.
Selling Through A Slump: An Industry-by-Industry Playbook
A Guide by Salespeople for Salespeople on How to Sell Your Way to Recovery
Download this Free eBook
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Dave Stein
Paul Lanigan is the Sandler franchisee for Ireland. I’ve been reading his newsletter for a while.
Paul posted a recent comment about an article published by ZDNet UK entitled, Top 10 reasons to avoid IT salespeople. Whether you work for a tech company or not, you need to read this article.
It’s not often we get such uncensored [...]
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Posted on June 17th, 2008 by Dave Stein
Getting sales leaders to understand the importance of a strategic approach to sales performance improvement is often an uphill battle.
So, when I get in front of a group of sales leaders, one of the things that I say to grab the participants’ attention is, “Somewhere in another building on the other side of town, there is [...]
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Posted on June 13th, 2008 by Dave Stein
That’s a question I’m often asked about business-to-business selling.
I define science (in this application of the word) as the ability and willingness of a person to follow a set of processes in order to carry on the business of day-to-day selling. Examples would be formal planning, the use of checklists, dependence upon research, vigilant qualification, [...]
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