Red Star Kim

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At the recent Business Development for Professionals – 2024 Virtual Conference – MBL Seminars I presented a session entitled “Supporting Fee-Earners in Sales Targeting”. Here is a summary of the sales targeting toolbox for professional services firms. So targeting is often more important and more challenging.

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Red Star Kim

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

At the recent PM Forum workshop on “Selling processes and sales skills for marketing and business development professionals” we focused on sales and selling challenges in professional services. Selling challenges in professional services: Sales processes and skills. Their fee-earners are often in the same boat.

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SBI Growth

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Bad decisions can cause your company to miss the number. When the decision is made at the top, the collateral damage is multiplied. Below are six of the worst decisions we’ve seen senior sales leaders make. It will help your team better understand how your Customers make a decision. Bad decision.

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Mike Kunkle

APRIL 8, 2023

In this post, I’m going to share some simple concepts that I’ve seen deliver radically improved results across a sales force. The advice comes from Modern Sales Foundations , a course that was developed based on over 16+ years of top sales performer analysis, modernized for working with today’s buyers.

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Arpedio

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Sales forecasting is a critical process that enables businesses to project future sales activity and streamline their business strategy for better results and profitability. Whether you are a small business owner or a large corporation, sales forecasting can help you make informed decisions that improve your bottom line.

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Arpedio

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Gross sales and net sales are two of the most critical metrics used in sales performance analysis and financial reporting. Gross sales refer to the total revenue generated from the sale of goods or services before any deductions, such as discounts, returns, or allowances, are made.

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Brooks Group

APRIL 23, 2024

A sales career can be exhilarating and rewarding—offering the potential for high earnings, flexible schedules, and the chance to work directly with a diverse range of customers. As you consider whether a sales career is the right fit for you, it’s crucial to understand both the upsides and the downsides.

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Insightly

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CRM Models: How They Can Boost Customer Profitability. These strategies underpin the process of managing customer data, helping to ensure you make the most of the information you gather. With carefully segmented customers and a method for appealing to each group, you can attract and retain more lifelong customers and increase profits.

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Mike Kunkle

OCTOBER 8, 2023

This strategic approach goes beyond conventional departmental boundaries, breaks down silos, and encompasses product, marketing, demand generation, sales enablement, and the encompassing realm of customer experience (whether it goes by customer support, customer success, customer service, or a combination of these).

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Holden Advisors

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Imagine if you could banish “no-decision” from your sales funnel. More deals that travel all the way to the win/loss finish line, less wasted sales time, more essential customer needs resolved, and a higher share of wallet. In essence, divergent thinking is the antidote to “no decision.”. What’s standing in your way?

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Welcome to "The Pipeline" — a weekly column from HubSpot, featuring actionable advice and insight from real sales leaders. AI and the pandemic threw a wrench in the typical sales funnel that companies have now realized is too outdated to consistently bring in the profits they want to see. Clients aren’t buying like they used to.

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Account Manager Tips

AUGUST 14, 2022

Sales Find the course that's right for you How to identify your skill gaps Define success What goals do you need to achieve? You'll learn behaviours and techniques that will make your natural creativity shine. This proven method will make you more open-minded and productive. Making Creativity and Innovation Happen.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 3, 2024

When it comes to sales strategy , businesses must weigh the pros and cons of direct sales and channel sales to determine the best approach for achieving revenue growth. Therefore, it’s crucial to select the right sales strategy that aligns with your business goals and target market.

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Arpedio

APRIL 15, 2024

As the tapestry of sales continues to evolve, the incorporation of artificial intelligence in sales stands out as a transformative force. To remain competitive and forward-thinking, companies are increasingly looking towards an AI sales strategy that not only augments human capabilities but reshapes them.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 6, 2024

Sales effectiveness is your sales professionals’ ability to achieve their goals and objectives efficiently and successfully. Sales effectiveness also corresponds with the return your organization gets from its sales investment. But improving sales effectiveness is a complex task that few organizations do well.

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Mike Kunkle

JUNE 12, 2022

Unfortunately, many company executives still needed to make tough choices, even with their revenue-producing teams. I hope this will contained to not-yet-profitable, seed-funded early-stage companies with burn-rate/runway issues, but as the recession gears up, it may spread. Reengineering Sales Performance. Strategy First.

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Nutshell

AUGUST 28, 2023

Creating a structured sales process is one of the most effective ways to boost your sales teams’ efficiency and results. With a formal sales process in place, your sales team has a framework to follow, and it’s much easier to stay on the same page, track results, and onboard new team members.

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Account Manager Tips

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It can help inform smart business decisions and spot investment opportunities. Data analysis specifically is changing key account management and the way they relay insights to internal stakeholders and clients to make a greater business impact.

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Zendesk

MAY 19, 2022

If you’ve ever taken sales training of any kind, you know that mastering sales vocabulary is shockingly difficult. Many sales terms sound interchangeable when, in fact, they mean drastically different things. That’s why we compiled a list of the 100 most useful sales terms every salesperson needs to know. Sales job terms.

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Hubspot Sales

JULY 7, 2023

As technology advances and becomes more accessible, businesses are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their sales processes. AI has the potential to revolutionize the way sales teams operate, giving them valuable insights and predictive analytics to drive more revenue. Are sales teams investing in AI?

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Hubspot Sales

AUGUST 30, 2023

But what changes will it bring to the sales industry? Will it be the end of salespeople, or will it become the secret weapon to help sales reps work more efficiently? Furthermore, we’ve interviewed leading sales teams to collect 11 AI sales predictions that you should watch in 2023. Let’s jump to the nitty-gritty.

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Arpedio

JANUARY 3, 2024

Accurate sales forecasting and revenue forecasting are crucial components of this planning process, allowing businesses to project future financial performance and make informed decisions. While sales forecasting and revenue forecasting are often used interchangeably, they are not the same.

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Sales Gravy

MAY 3, 2023

Leading In A Changing Sales Landscape On this episode of the Sales Gravy Podcast, Jeb Blount (Sales Gravy CEO and author of Sales EQ) and Graham Hooper (CEO of Ellison Technologies) discuss the keys to leading your sales team in uncertain times.

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Flevy

MARCH 12, 2024

Research by various academicians and researchers has suggested other models of gaining profitability and sustainable competitive advantage. As per Pralahad and Hamel, distinctive competencies or capabilities of the organization make the key difference in achieving superior performance and competitive advantage.

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Nutshell

MARCH 19, 2024

As the backbone of any business, the sales team needs to be efficient to meet targets and ensure the company remains profitable. Keeping an eye on your team’s sales productivity is one of the best ways to track performance and nip bottlenecks in the bud. Table of Contents What is sales productivity?

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MTD Sales Training

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Decisions, decisions… ah, there’s a dilemma inside every choice for everyone! The way decisions are made can tell you a lot about the personality of a person. People’s decision-making criteria will always give away a lot of information, as they help you understand their beliefs, values and behaviours.

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Hubspot Sales

MAY 5, 2023

Sales is a tough job under normal circumstances, but throw in a recession and things get even more complicated. This means retiring the old playbook and getting creative with your sales strategies. More than a third (35%) of US consumers are planning to make fewer purchases due to a possible recession.

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Sales Management Plus -- SMP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Look inside any distribution ERP system and you’ll find thousands of customers, product SKUs, sales transactions and more. This may seem challenging if you haven’t taken a data-driven approach to sales and marketing before. Imagine that you have a sales rep planning to drive to a remote location in their territory.

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Account Manager Tips

MAY 1, 2021

Successful Sales Negotiation Strategy. But there's a simple sales negotiation strategy that works which is. to make the first move. Our job is to not only to keep our clients but to grow profitability through improved margins, more volume and additional products and services. The secret is simple: make the first move.

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Red Star Kim

JUNE 15, 2023

or profits greater than £150000), active and inactive companies with up to 10 years’ of financial data. profit, growth and core legal services) How can Nexl help law firms execute their Strategic Account initiatives? (no-data-entry 200,000 companies with turnover or shareholder funds over £1.5m Why do law firms needs SAM?

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Account Manager Tips

MAY 1, 2021

A simple sales negotiation tactic. As a key account manager, you not only need to keep your clients, you need to keep them profitable. To do that, you need sales negotiation skills to convince them to buy more and, when the time comes, to renew. Which makes them risk-averse. and decisions. and decisions.

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Brooks Group

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Sales leaders, the driving force behind a company’s revenue generation, understand that time is of the essence. At the same time, deals take longer to make their way through the sales process than they used to. In a dynamic and competitive world, sales efficiency is paramount. That’s true in any sales landscape.

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Brooks Group

MARCH 28, 2024

As buying processes grow more complex, it’s becoming increasingly important for sales professionals to gain access to senior executives and C-level decision makers. Today’s major purchasing decisions often involve cross-functional buying committees that include executives from the C-suite. Your prospect lacks budget authority.

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PandaDoc

APRIL 17, 2024

“What is ACV in sales?”, What does ACV stand for in sales The meaning of ACV in sales is “annual contract value” and is a metric that tells you the revenue generated by a contract over a year. The importance of knowing ACV in sales ACV is an important metric for a variety of reasons. Sales or marketing managers.

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Hubspot Sales

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Marketing and sales teams rely heavily on one another to drive business. After all, it’s the marketing department that generates leads, and the sales team that converts those leads to paying customers. Sales collaboration dramatically improves results, but bringing it to fruition can be more complex than it sounds. The result?

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Account Management Skills

JANUARY 11, 2022

In this episode we talk about making client relationships more profitable. and so much more… At the end of the podcast, Chris makes a special offer to send three copies of his book to 3 people selected randomly who sign up for his monthly bulletin. Welcome to Episode 53. Why you need to raise your prices and how to do it.

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Brooks Group

JUNE 12, 2023

Sales negotiation can be a source of dread for many sales professionals. With the right sales negotiation strategy & sales negotiation skills training, even this part of the sales process can remain warm and result in a mutually beneficial outcome for all parties. How does that translate to your business?

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