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Unless you’re Dale Carnegie, it probably can’t hurt to criticize your own sales methods fairly regularly.  Are you doing all the right things at the right times to maximize your sales performance? Great performers in sales are always open to new ideas and new actions that will give them edge and take their performance to...
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Sales leaders in industries with long sales cycles are oftentimes plagued with dramatic swings in forecasts, months in between progressing sales stages and sizable competitors. Here are a couple of sales contest ideas to address each of these challenges and help break up that sales cycle, optimizing key points along the way. 1. Forecast Swings Do you...
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Ever find yourself facing a tough question from a prospect very early in your discussion? Or maybe you’ve been rushed through the beginning stages of your pitch, so they can readjust the starting point to something they haven’t already researched on their own? There’s no doubt the amount of savvy technology buyers has increased dramatically...
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Think you know Twitter? So did I this morning. Then I attended Quicken Loans’ first ever “Family of Companies Social Media Conference,” hosted by Twitter Senior Account Executive Sara Baker this afternoon. And I had some serious aha moments.  In effort toward helping you to do the same, I’ve compiled a list of nine of the interesting...
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It’s not that our business development team doesn’t want to help with marketing initiatives. It’s just they spend their days juggling. They need to call and email and schedule and nurture and manage the seemingly unmanageable amount of activities that come with prospecting at a fast-growing startup. On top of carrying out marketing requests. Don’t...
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[Cameron is a Customer Success Manager at LevelEleven] When we talk with customers about running successful sales contests, one of the first things we say is: “Don’t overcomplicate it!” Sounds easy, right? Not always. It can be very tempting to want to motivate everything that’s important to making sales, as opposed to keying in on what...
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