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Dear Sales Management: You’re Setting Quota Wrong

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Companies spend a lot of precious time and energy developing their sales strategies and programs for the coming year. For sales management what we tend to see are a less than effective methods that drive the quotas with less than effective results. Increasing quotas by 2% will lead to an increase in sales performance.

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The pain of a failed B2B sales call can be a great teacher.

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Those who have never experienced failed B2B sales calls are at a distinct disadvantage to those who have. B2B sales people, who have been around more than a few years, possess the huge advantage of having lived through both failures and successes. So, what’s the peak performance age for a B2B sales person or B2B coach?

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The History and Downfall of a German Wholesale Company “Wollschläger” – Part 1

QYMATIX

He opened new stationary sales channels. In the year 2000, the Wollschläger Group merged with his long-standing partner Industrie Werkzeug Vertrieb GmbH. His namesake was a younger strategic thinker, courageous and hard-working sales talent. I WANT PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS FOR B2B SALES. Maybe just an expensive one.

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The History and Downfall of a German Wholesale Company “Wollschläger” – Part 2

QYMATIX

The Wollschläger Group now had 12 branches throughout Germany and employed over 600 people, including 130 sales field experts. In this new function, he was responsible for national sales. KG had more than doubled from 2000 to 2010. Which sales team can successfully sell this huge number of products?

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How Marc Benioff’s Vision for Cloud-Based Service Lifted Up the Innovations of over 3,000 Entrepreneurs

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Investors Business Daily put it best by saying, “ he [Benioff] also revolutionized the way software is delivered. By Salesforce’s own account, in the year 2000, the company hired “actors to stage a mock protest outside a Siebel Systems conference. “The End of Software” protest staged by Salesforce in 2000 1.