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Partnering And Selling

Partners in Excellence

I cringe every time I get an email or social media invitation, “Dave, we’d like to partner with you… ” It’s always code for, “I want to sell you something!” Partnering, true partnering, is critical to success in buying/selling. Strategic partnerships have existed in various forms for decades.

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The New Sales Channel

Partners in Excellence

Channels are a high impact route to market, they enable us to connect with customers we can’t easily connect with. We put in place programs to attract channel partners (or if we are a channel, to attract the companies developing the products/solutions) getting them to sell our products. A new type of channel partner.

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

Joanne Black is one of the leading authorities in referral selling. Jennifer Brandenburg is an industry sales leader in building high impact organizations that are repeatable, measurable and predictable. Her book Stop Selling & Start Leading is a terrific read on buyer experience and sales.