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How Balanced are Your sales skills?
Everybody in sales wants to have great sales skills, but not everybody realizes that sales skills come in three varieties. Psychological skills. These are what most people think of as sales skills. They include the ability to complete a successful cold...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Geoffrey James, sales, sales skill
Blog posts 2008-05-08

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Better Questions = Faster Selling
Better Questions = Faster SellingQuestions...Here is something to think about: Those of us in sales have heard again and again, from our first day on the job, that THE critical skill for building rapport as well as gaining an understanding of the customer's needs is questioning. So why is...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, faster selling, Better Question
Discussion threads 2008-05-03
Does Your Sales Training Program Address Your Sales Performance Issues?: Part 1
Sales training programs encompass a variety of necessary components; things like company policies, sales paperwork, CRM/sales force automation orientation, sales processes, company services, sales skill training and product features and benefits. But when the author asks Sales executives and Sales trainers how their current sales training program is aligned with...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, SalesVantage.com Inc., sales training, sales, SFA, sales force, CRM, training, benefit
White papers 2006-07-07
The Key to Sales Success: Learn the ONE Skill that Turns Average Reps into Golden Players
This TRACOM Group white paper argues that winning salespeople are made, not born. It teases out the ONE common trait that sales gurus such as Ken Stine, Jeff Gitomer, and Jack & Suzy Welch have identified as being critical to sales success: The ability of product reps to adjust their...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, TRACOM Group, sales, sales cycle, sales force
White papers
Effective Delegation Skill
Delegation skill is the ability to effectively assign task responsibility and authority to others. Or, in other words, delegation skill is a person's ability to get things done by using work and time of other people. Effective delegation is a critical survival skill for managers and supervisors, and this is...
Tags: Workforce management, supervisor, training
White papers
11 Tips To Increase Your Time Management Skills
Time management is a skill that many of us seem to learn through necessity. The problem with learning a skill through necessity is that, more often than not, bad habits creep in and, although the skill may be useful in general, we do not use it to its full potential....
Tags: time management
White papers 2008-02-13
Management Skill vs. Leadership Skill
A growing business needs both Leadership and Management to thrive. Article explains that the best companies have managers with strong leadership skill and superb management skill. But when chaos strikes, they can’t always concentrate on both. Article examines what they lose when they neglect one or the other, as both...
Tags: leadership
White papers 2003-01-01
Does Your Sales Training Program Address Your Sales Performance Issues?: Part 2
In this first part of this paper, the authors went over the steps to uncover sales performance issues and decide which are applicable at a high priority for pin-point sales skill training. The authors first documented the main sales performance issues. There are distinct sales performance silos that will effect...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, SalesVantage.com Inc., sales, sales training, training
White papers 2006-07-07
A Useful Skill to Acquire to Explode Your Marketing Efforts
"Good marketing will cause your readers to act on their emotions, many times without even realizing it Idea can be used not only for selling but also for getting signups for your ezine or requests for more information on a topic. The key is getting inside the door for...
Tags: Marketing research, ezine, marketing, sales
White papers
How to Maximize Your Marketing/Sales Investments: A Critical Skill (Especially) in a Down Economy
An organization makes investments in marketing and sales activities when they are usually looking to increase sales. In a down economy increasing sales is more important and an organization is under more pressure to cut expenses (simultaneously). This paper presents a proven method to optimize the marketing and sales investments...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, marketing, sales, investment
White papers 2003-04-07
Outsourcing Peter To Pay Paul: High Skill Expectations And Low-Skill Wages
This paper investigates the impact of globalization on wages earned by low and high-skill workers when openness leads to the outsourcing of high-tech jobs abroad. The authors have shown that low-skill workers may become considerably better off after globalization due to the fact that high-skill workers start accepting low-tech jobs....
Tags: Research & Development, Michigan State University, globalization, worker, modeling, salary, outsourcing, job
White papers 2006-05-05
Top 10 Sales Mistakes
Every sales person, regardless of the industry, the product, or skill level, makes mistakes. This paper discusses some basic sales mistakes to avoid and also offers some tips for selling more and having happier customers. Too often salespeople sing the praises of a product without hearing what the customer wants.
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, AllBusiness.com, sales, industry
White papers
Integrating Knowledge Management and Human Resources Via Skill Management
Knowledge is more and more a key factor within companies. Nearly 40 percent of all employees are so called "knowledge workers". Distribution and inquest of knowledge within companies are supported by skill management systems. Although not all aspects and potentials of this instrument are yet utilized skill management systems have...
Tags: Strategy, knowledge, knowledge management, Human Resources
White papers 2005-03-30
Time Management Skill: Improving Through Actions
Your time management skills are directly proportional to your ability to take the right actions at the right time for the right reasons. The act of making a decision is part of this time management skill. You have to quickly go through each thing and just decide what action you...
Tags: time management
White papers 2007-12-01
Profile of the Top Performing Consultative Sales Professional
Allocating sales training time and choosing sales training initiatives are never easy. It is a difficult task to decide whether to engage sales conversation skill training, sales strategy training, proposal writing, product knowledge, or a host of other attractive areas. Everyone at the company seems to have an idea of...
Tags: Sales force management, sales training, sales, sales strategy, decision-making, training, performance
White papers 2003-01-01
Why These Time Management Exercises Can Send Your Home Business Growth Into Orbit!
The true secret to becoming the best sales and marketing organization is repetition of basic core skills. Skill is not created by constantly switching to new things. Skill is created by focusing on a small number of things and doing them repeatedly. Black belts in karate do not become black...
Tags: Sales strategy, time management, belt, sales, marketing
White papers 2007-03-05
Whatever Happened to Skill-Based Pay?
The argument that paying for animated people skills and capabilities rather than inanimate jobs was and is a powerful and convincing one. It just makes immense sense to organize the work to be done around the capabilities of the people to hire, rather than just forcing people into jobs and...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, HR.com, job
White papers 2003-01-01
Achieving Sales Goals Requires Drive And Motivation
The author of this article explains that goal setting is an important skill. The first and most basic step to getting what you want is to know what that is, and to constantly remind yourself of that. This article explains about sales goals. Sales goals should be expressed in ways...
Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Operational planning, goal-setting, sales, motivation
White papers 2003-01-01
11 Solid Ways To Improve Your Time Management Skills
Time management is a skill that many of us seem to learn through necessity. The problem with learning a skill through necessity is that, more often than not, bad habits creep in and, although the skill may be useful in general, we do not use it to its full potential....
Tags: time management
White papers 2007-12-01
Globalization and the Demand for Skill: An Export Based Channel
This paper shows that international trade affects the demand for skill through an export based channel. The paper presents a working hypothesis, which states that the very act of exporting requires an effort of skill upgrading, in particular among occupations related to marketing and development. Using firm level data,...
Tags: OECD, occupation, globalization, product development, marketing
White papers 2002-03-12
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