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Elevating Sales Performance: 6 Simple Tweaks for Big Impact

Mike Kunkle

So, in this article, I’ll explore fostering a relentlessly customer-centric culture, refining your ICP and optimizing territories, sharpening sales messaging, deepening discovery skills, training sellers on buying process exit criteria, and enhancing manager coaching skills. Create a Customer Advisory Board.

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Want to Accelerate Your SAM Journey? Create a Center of Excellence

Strategic Account Management Association

Customer-buying behaviors have also reshaped Amazon and other retailers in delivering everyday goods. Organizations are already planning for this new- or next-normal hybrid model and have worked hard to elevate the needed skill sets of their commercial teams – especially strategic account managers. Three Pillars of Success.

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Back to the Future: F2F selling is returning, but virtual selling is here to stay

Strategic Account Management Association

Just when customer account teams and salespeople were beginning to grow accustomed to virtual-only sales and account management, a return to (some) face-to-face interactions is on the horizon. Customer-facing teams need to continue to up their virtual game, even as they learn how to optimize a balance of virtual and in-person engagement.

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Using Multi-Factor Analysis to Maximize Sales Performance Improvement

Mike Kunkle

Note: AirCo Solutions is a completely fictional company that we created for our Modern Sales Foundations training program at my employer, SPARXiQ. You can skim through the below initial facts on industry and products/services. Custom System Design: Engineering tailored filtration systems to meet the unique requirements of each client.

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Rethinking Enablement for the Future: The Power of Commercial Effectiveness Integration

Mike Kunkle

Introduction In today’s fast-paced and challenging business landscape, maximizing organizational success hinges on seamless coordination across various functions. This unified effort propels businesses to new heights of success. I’m not saying it should report elsewhere, just that it is critical to commercial success.

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Understanding Sales Process, Methodology, and Competencies

Mike Kunkle

It should be aligned to the customer lifecycle and buying process, where possible. Here are two examples of customer lifecycles and the corresponding sales processes, for a consultative process with an implemented solution, and a transactional process with a flow of purchase, stock, use or resell, and restock.

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Sales Process vs. Sales Methodology: What’s the Difference?

Upland

It’s a systematic framework that outlines the steps, actions, and stages involved in converting leads into customers. They’re typically sold based on a fee charged for the intellectual property, combined with a per-person, per-year charge for training and license fees. What is a sales process?

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