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So, how do we get sales and marketing aligned? At first glance, this might not seem like a very complicated question to answer. I mean, both departments have very similar goals, right? Now, ask me how we can align sales and legal? Ahhh, now that’s a question! Sales versus the sales prevention department – a ...

Setting sales quotas is not pure science; rather it is a healthy blend of both employing standard analytical tools and imposing the broader needs of the company. These are 5 deadly traps organizations fall into when setting sales quotas. 1. Applying a bottoms up approach; setting individual rep quotas and summing them to determine the ...

How hard a time do women have connecting to their power? Are they more reluctant than men to brand themselves as experts? Not long ago I was conducting a “Message of You” workshop for women. As we shared our mess-to-success life journeys, I noticed we all seemed to have something in common: each of us ...

Back in my cold-calling days, a Health Food Store owner whom I solicited agreed to buy one trial bottle of the multi-vitamin I was selling. I placed a follow up call with him a month later to see how the trial went. He responded, “Yes, that was the best multiple I’ve seen. Please ship me ...

Inside sales cannot succeed on volume alone. More customer conversations will not move the needle unless those conversations yield value.

There’s really no way to sugarcoat it. It is the most challenging aspect of a salesperson’s job–or for that matter that of a parent or anyone who wants to persuade–to ask the more difficult questions. Such questions are sometimes referred to as “pain” questions. Two weeks in a sales training class will show you that ...

On what he loves about SalesPOP and sales itself, why salespeople should be different, why benchmarking sucks, the importance of Sales and Marketing alignment, and advice for new salespeople. Roy is a top contributor to SalesPOP! and seriously enjoys it. “I love working with people who are emotionally committed to their work” he says. “SalesPOP! ...

Marketing and Sales should work together to increase awareness, connect with target audiences and ultimately put revenue on the books. Too often, Marketing and Sales are at odds with each other. That’s actually the better scenario because it means they are actually communicating, while too many times there is no interaction at all. The worst ...