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The Challenge of Selling Expertise (Not Product)

Strategic Account Management Association

An interview with Michael Thomas by Harvey Dunham, Managing Director of Business Development at SAMA. Michael Thomas is the founder of Magnetic Services. He also spent years as a managing consultant for Microsoft’s global consulting organization. What is the project management process? Selling Expertise.

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Preparing M&BD professionals for the future – learning, skills and knowledge transfer

Red Star Kim

At the 28 th PM Forum Annual Conference in September I (in my capacity as Head of Training and Learning Transfer of the Managing Partners’ Forum and PM Forum), co-presented breakout sessions with Julie McConnell of international law firm White & Case. Although it does provide indepth knowledge of legal services.

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Avoid the revolving door – Recruiting and retaining marketing and business development professionals in PSFs

Red Star Kim

Business development can be defined in a number of ways. Some see it as the overall process covering marketing, selling and relationship management. Others see it as focused on selling – particularly the generation of new business. Strategy or service? Make sure it’s a good one! Recruitment fundamentals.

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Top sales blogs all sales managers need to follow

PandaDoc

This disparity isn’t surprising, as a number of factors have come together in recent years to make B2B sales more challenging than ever: That same HubSpot report also found that 38% of salespeople say getting a response from prospects is getting more difficult. Adaptive Business Blog. Sales Management Blog. Connect2Sell.

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B2B Revenue and the (Ir)relevance of the Funnel

DemandFarm

Originally published in Forbes Business Development Council Traditionally, one of the core concepts of sales and marketing is the sales funnel through which companies are supposed to move prospects from awareness through consideration to engagement, and finally to purchase. Which revenue stream is dominant in your industry?

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Solution Selling: The Ultimate Guide

Hubspot Sales

It's a sales methodology that became popular in the 1980s, and it's based on a pretty simple premise: A salesperson diagnoses their prospect’s needs, then recommends the right products and or services to accommodate them. Long story short, we make them more secure.". Ask them, “What factored into your decision to work with us?”

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Power, Politics, and Benchmarking Influence Strategy in 2013

SBI Growth

In Business Services companies, Operations executives usually have more power than Sales executives. This is especially true in Business Services companies and other more mature business models. Then, as sales manager, he turned around a struggling team. Ops managers thought sales reps were overpaid.