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Whatever It Takes In Sales

Iannarino

The profession of sales has a way of revealing your strengths, your weaknesses, and your vulnerabilities—those weaknesses that actively hinder your success. Instead of looking for shortcuts, secrets, hacks, or anything else that promises an easy result, actually do the work. Increase Your Activity. Improve Your Approach.

Sales 294
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Few Want to Go Into Sales

Iannarino

The greater pressure is internal, the result of a role that provides more autonomy and more responsibility for individual results. The high-pressure tactics worked exactly as the book promised, but they also gained me a lot of enemies among the gatekeepers. None of them could cite anything other than buying a used car.

Intrinsic 334
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Unwilling to Unlearn

Iannarino

The Gist: One of the primary obstacles to better results is a refusal to unlearn poor techniques. Many still believe that all that is needed to produce greater results is “more activity.”. This formula can result in a positive or a negative number. The Belief That More is Better than Better.

Technique 311
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Field Sales: How to Improve Your Sales Productivity Quickly

Veloxy

As a sales leader, your efforts directly impact the company’s stability and growth. However, with increasing competition combined with a limited budget and sales personnel, reaching your quotas can be challenging. However, it’s not due to a lack of effort by the sales team. Grab a warm coffee or tea and let’s get started!

Product 246
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We Are Efficient, But Are We Effective?

Partners in Excellence

I became a master of cut and paste, so I could get a lot more done in a shorter period. I could create lots of letter, sending out dozens every week. Whatever time we tend free up, is immediately filled with something else and we become time poor, once again. The goal of each of these is increasing our efficiency.

Follow-up 136
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How to fight bias in your AI models

Martech

Bad data creates bad results. What has changed is the impact the results have because of how many decisions are now made by AI. Missing economic activity “When a woman wants [money] to open a store or something of that sort,” she said, “they go through a financial institution. Always has and always will. That is not a typo.

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Alternatives to third-party cookies: The state of play

Martech

“I think there are going to be lots of different tactics to get through this,” said DeZao. “Brands that don’t have a lot of first-party data — say, for example, CPG brands — are going to rely on their retail media partners, the Targets and the Walmarts, to get them the reach that they need. .”

Retail 136