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Failed Sales Strategies: Why They Happen

Engage Selling

Frustrated with failed sales strategies? You put together a robust sales strategy—a strategy that you worked extremely hard on and believed to be near flawless—only to see it fail in the long run. Frustrating, right? In my years of consulting, … Read More » The post Failed Sales Strategies: Why They Happen first appeared on The Sales Leader.

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Blue Pill Red Pill in the Needs Analysis

The Center for Sales Strategy

Your biggest competition in B2B sales can be what might be described as the comfort of the blue pill, as made famous in the Matrix series. In the movie, a major character, Morpheus, describes the blue pill as waking up in bed without caring for your destiny. There's a natural desire for prospects to want to believe things are good and have a preference for doing nothing.

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What is sales experience? Resume + interview examples

Zendesk

You’re looking for a sales position and scouring the job postings. But it seems like every role requires at least one year of experience, which you might not have. Before disqualifying yourself from a sales career , you should know that your experience doesn’t have to come from an actual sales job—you just need to understand how to transfer your current skill set to the position you’re applying for.

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The Cost of a Bad Sales Hire: A Million-Dollar Mistake

Sales Readiness Group

What is the most expensive decision you can make as a frontline sales manager? Hands down, it's deciding who you'll bring onto your team as your next sales hire.

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2024, The Year of the Customer

2023's struggles fueled a shift: companies are ditching wasteful strategies in favor of data and AI-powered growth. Enter 2024, the year GTC takes center stage. Discover 5 ways a customer-centric approach unlocks new revenue and delivers lasting success.

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How to Become a More Agile Business w/Sanjiv Augustine, CEO at LitheSpeed Ep#153

Strategic Planning and Management Insights

SME Strategy is a strategy consulting company that specializes in aligning teams around their vision, mission, values, goals and action plans. Learn more about how we can help align your team with our strategic planning and implementation services.

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Market Basket Analysis in Excel – Example for Cross-Selling in B2B

QYMATIX

One Useful Example of Predictive Sales Analytics Using Excel. Cross-selling is the practice of selling an additional product or service to an existing customer. Indeed, B2B companies define cross-selling in general and cross-selling analytics in particular, in many ways and with many names. One common naming used in retail or distribution is “market-basket-analytics”.

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Why Buyer Experience Is Way More Powerful Than Plain, Old Sales Enablement

Showpad

What is ‘buyer experience’ all about and how does it relate to revenue enablement ? . Glad you asked. We work with a lot of great sales, marketing, and enablement teams, and all the best ones do something really, really important: they flip their perspective from inside the company—where people talk about ‘sales enablement’ or ‘revenue enablement’—to outside the company, starting with the buyer’s view of things.

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Augmented Analytics: Frequently Asked Questions

SmartKarrot

As smart technologies continue to evolve, industries such as healthcare, finance, construction, education, retail, etc., are taking advantage of modern solutions. Augmented Analytics is one such emerging technology that has completely changed the way people perceive data analytics, data manipulation, monitoring, and, data literacy. The popularity of augmented analytics is because it adds value to the analytics lifecycle, insight delivery, and the entire process of data preparation, and analysis.

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The Chief Customer Officer’s Guide to Achieving Team Alignment

SmartKarrot

Team alignment is crucial for ensuring that all members of an organization understand the vision and mission of a company and work together in a structured manner to attain the end goal of the organization. As a Chief Customer Officer, you need your team to understand your customer success goals and work in alignment with the strategies developed by you.