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Find the Right Metrics for Your Sales Team

Harvard Business

But today’s sales technologies enable companies to measure almost anything, which leads many managers to try to measure everything. As a consequence, managers don’t have a clear sense of what is really driving sales in their business, while salespeople, who are inundated with dozens of metrics, get lost in the day-to-day noise.

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How to Build a Better Sales Playbook

LSA Global

What Is a Sales Playbook? Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Sales Strategy. Sales Culture.

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Consultant Marketing Discovery Meeting

Jerry Fletcher

In most cases the answer will be that some metric in the sales equation is off. See Jerry’s new speaker demo reel. Start by determining the primary problem that has caused them to consider your services. I find that it is best to be direct. Ask questions like: What is the problem or concern that caused you to want to talk?

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What is Project Accounting?

Progressus

Introducing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central + Progressus A Total Solution for Project-Centric Organizations Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is a comprehensive, cloud-based ERP solution for small to midsized businesses, connecting sales, service, finance, and operations to work smarter, adapt faster, and perform better.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Harvard Business

Companies have hired writers and Chief Content Officers to run departments, create blogs and other materials, and, in the process, some have assured sales people that content marketing can mean the end of cold calling. Our data also indicate that much of marketing and sales collateral is read by prospects outside of the normal work week.

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Why New Consumer Brands Must Scale Faster

Harvard Business

Steve Demos, the founder of Silk Soymilk, used to joke that Silk is a 25-year overnight success. After the sale, Thomae was on vacation in her native Australia, where she tried a yogurt unlike anything she had ever tasted. The tell-tale signs here are their metrics and mental models.

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