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PODCAST 179: Cultural Insight on Operating a Regional Office with Paula Shannon

Sales Hacker

How to open a regional office. The importance of understanding company finances. With over 35 years of sales and leadership experience, she’s an accomplished linguist and knows a lot about how companies should expand regionally to maximize growth. What You’ll Learn. When to use functional heads in lines of reporting.

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Sales Operations: The Guide They Never Gave You

InsightSquared

Account Manager. Finance and management studies gave you models to take into the real world while our area did not. The responsibilities range from daily support of sales to developing the territories for regions of the world. What are your common discount rates, and do they vary by region or vertical?

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The Ultimate Guide to a Career in Sales

Hubspot

Keep in mind that the majority of people in this position have several years of experience since they often have to work independently and excel at time management. Account Manager. This is where account managers come in. Account managers are evaluated on customer retention and satisfaction metrics.

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70% of Your Pipeline from Social Selling? Arzoo’s Story

SalesforLife

Arzoo is an account-based seller for Refinitiv and Thomson Reuters, and we’ve been working with her for the last seven years. Like millions of people in the MENA/GCC region, Arzoo has embraced social selling. Bottom line: There are 21 million people on LinkedIn in the MENA/GCC region. Regional excuses are no longer valid.

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The “Problem” Is Different Depending On Where You Sit

Partners in Excellence

Finance will see the problem in a different way than IT and customer service. ” One of my regional managers knew I had a relationship with the CEO of a major US telecom company. This regional VP thought he should call at the top, asking me to arrange an intro to my friend the CRO. As will procurement, and so forth.

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Are “Traditional” Selling Skills Even Relevant Anymore?

Partners in Excellence

Rather than a sales focused training workshop on problem solving, what if sales people train with finance, engineering, operations, and manufacturing people? What if we mixed different disciplines/functions/points of view in the same training programs.

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Data Governance: Salesforce Objects in a Lead-to-Cash Process

Sales Hacker

Now you need to merge their Salesforce account with yours in some meaningful way, and theirs was set up with custom objects to represent their particular products and services, and they export this data in a spreadsheet for finance to assign commissions and invoices. How This Works for Account-Based Sales.