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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

Iannarino

The Gist: We are increasingly choosing prospecting approaches that harm our professional relationships. The stereotype that defines salespeople as pushy, smarmy, lazy, high-pressure, self-oriented, entitled, and willing to do absolutely anything to win a deal hasn’t been true for decades. Brute Force Approaches.

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Everything Wrong with Prospecting

Iannarino

The Gist: We are increasingly choosing prospecting approaches that harm our professional relationships. The stereotype that defines salespeople as pushy, smarmy, lazy, high-pressure, self-oriented, entitled, and willing to do absolutely anything to win a deal hasn’t been true for decades. Brute Force Approaches.

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What It Means When You Trash Your Competition

Iannarino

The Gist: There is never a reason to trash your competition. The more mature your contact, the more you’ll alienate them by focusing on your competitor. You best approach to differentiating yourself from your competition is enriching the sales conversation. How Mature Business People Think. Nothing to Teach.

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How to Design a High-Performing Sales Enablement Program

Sales Hacker

You need to define or redefine your ideal employee profile (IEP). Making a list of characteristics you want to see in your ideal employee. This will help you evaluate your current sales team’s strengths and fine-tune your search for new hires. Audit your current program. There are four steps to this.

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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 305: Q & A with Russell Benaroya @

Heinz Marketing

Pacific on LinkedIn (also on demand) you can find the transcription and recording here on the blog every Monday morning. This week’s show is called “Get Inside the Mind of your CFO” My guest is Russell Benaroya , Co-Founder and Partner at Stride. I am your host, Matt Heinz, excited to have you all here.

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35 Sales Interview Questions to Hire the Best Salespeople

Gong.io

Making a great hire comes down to the interview questions you ask your sales candidates. Or they ask “creative questions” they’ve heard some tech company uses (cough…Google…cough): “If you were the size of a nickel and trapped in a blender, how would you get out?”. PS: Decrease onboarding ramp time for your new hires.

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Fear The Beard: The Wayne Henderson Story

SalesLoft

It’s a hard work environment, results driven but at the same time very relaxed and family oriented. They say you get to choose your friends, not your family. What’s your secret? From a sales point of view, find your strength and get better at it; make it stronger. Isn’t time your most valuable resource?”.