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10 non-marketing books every SEO should read

Search Engine Land

‘Never Split the Difference’ by Chris Voss This book might seem an unconventional choice for an SEO, yet negotiation is a skill more embedded in our daily activities than we often realize. Whether we’re discussing budgets, negotiating time off or championing the adoption of a new tool, effective negotiation tactics are pivotal.

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How to Create a Need in Sales: Strategies for Success

Lead Fuze

Creating a need in sales is an art that requires strategic planning and execution. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is like a secret weapon that helps your website shine on search engines like Google. Leveraging Pivotal Agreements to Close Deals One killer technique in negotiations is leveraging Pivotal Agreements.

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How to Start a Profitable Social Media Marketing Agency

Lead Fuze

It requires an in-depth understanding of the social media landscape, strategic planning, and execution skills. Balancing operation expectations requires skillful negotiation and effective communication strategies – vital components in running a successful social media marketing agency.

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30 Outside Sales Tips That’ll Grow Your Pipeline

Veloxy

Know your product Whereas inside sales reps need to speak intelligently about their products, outside sales reps also need to know how best to use their products, their industrial applications, and in some cases the products’ intricate engineering. It’s truly one of the most effective sales models today.

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Is a Sales Operations Career Right for You?

Sales Hacker

This includes everything from automating mundane tasks to lighten a rep’s workload to providing the overall strategic plan for the sales organization. The focus is on things like reporting, territory management and later stage tasks such as contract negotiations and finance approvals. Problem-solving skills are also a must.

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How to Use M&A as a Tool to Accelerate Growth Feat. Insight Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Usually you see those things happening on the engineering side, people are acquiring machine learning and AIT for example. Let’s say you want to open that second engineering location. After some lengthy negotiations both businesses came out with a great experience and are very excited about building the company forward.

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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

Clausewitz (Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general) believed that friction was as inherent to war as it is to mechanical engineering and could therefore never be eliminated but only mitigated. Friction provided opportunities and could be used by a general just as much as it could be used by an engineer.