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B2B Wholesale & Distribution: Challenges and Triumphs of Industrial Wholesale Companies Facing Insolvency in Germany

QYMATIX

In Germany, specialist wholesalers and industrial distributors who can no longer meet their payment obligations due to current or foreseeable overindebtedness must, by law, file for insolvency protection. If you will not be able to meet your obligations, insolvency is cast. Forget your revenue, your brand, your years in the market.

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Social Entrepreneurship: What It Is and Why Everyone's Talking About it

Hubspot Sales

They wrote a business plan, circulated the document to a bank, and worked tirelessly to scale their company and drive profits for themselves and their investors. Ben & Jerry’s aims “to create linked prosperity for everyone that’s connected to our business: suppliers, employees, farmers, franchisees, customers, and neighbors alike.”

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How to Define, Calculate, and Manage Sales Backlog

Hubspot Sales

For example, unexpected downtime in a production line can cause a backlog, as well as difficulty with suppliers. When their brand initially launches and their product isn’t well-known or in-demand, they’ll likely have no problem meeting order targets every week. The Importance of a Sales Backlog. The challenge?

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The Plain-English Guide to Cash Flow Statement

Hubspot Sales

It allows investors and creditors to assess a business' ability to meet obligations and produce future net cash inflows while determining the need for external financing. Cash paid to suppliers or vendors. And it can give decision makers and potential investors a more accurate picture of how a business is doing.

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8 Creative Sales Prospecting Ideas You've Never Tried Before

Hubspot Sales

There are only so many hours in a day to sell -- the more practiced salespeople are at completing everyday tasks, the more time they can allocate to high-value activities like meeting with prospects or learning new skills. The meeting length you choose should depend on the size and complexity of the issue and your average deal size.

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The Perplexing Power of Process & Methodology in Complex B2B Sales

Mike Kunkle

The above diagram is only one possible example and is a consultative example, where a solution is sourced and implemented (rather than a transactional example where a supplier is sourced and products are purchased, used, and replenished). Many of the commercially-available methodologies are very good, but incomplete.

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Guest Post: Opportunity Lost: What Don’t Your Testimonials Say About You?

Engage Selling

The following post came for Doreen Ashton-Wagner at Greenfield Services and was posted on her Meeting and Event Lead Blog. If you are a meetings industry supplier, your website should feature a collection of testimonials from past clients who are happy to tell the world what a great job they saw you do on your last conference or meeting.