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Winning and Retaining Business When There is Competition

Understanding the Sales Force

When we left Massachusetts, the calendar said early April, the grass and gardens were still dormant and the weather felt like mid-January with some games played in 25-degree wind chills! Most salespeople are not capable of much more than presenting, offering discounts, and following up. Do it right now.

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5 Tips for Delivering Better Presentations

Hubspot

Giving presentations can be slightly nerve wracking or incredibly fun, depending on who you are. If you’re part of the group that dreads a presentation or giving a speech, you’re not alone. When coupled with public speaking, memorization can contribute to anxiety and can take away from the overall effect of the presentation.

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Top 5 Keys to Hire Ideal Sales Candidates at Your Company

Understanding the Sales Force

If you’re a gardener, and you’ve had as much rain as we have received in Central Massachusetts in the summer of 2023, then your plants that prefer dry soil are rotting – just like some of ours. Farmers have it worse as rain can lead to disease and lower yields.

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3 Tweaks to Your Sales Approach Are Steps Toward Sales Greatness

Understanding the Sales Force

Consider how frustrating it is to approach a traffic circle, or as we call them in Massachusetts, a rotary, during rush hour. You very slowly make your way towards the circle in a long line of traffic, attempt to merge into a congested circle, travel around to the other side of the circle, and finally exit the other end.

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Best Sales Rep Salary: Average Sales Salary in 50 States

Lead Fuze

Massachusetts. The index gives an instructive overview of rental, transportation, and grocery expenses at a time when college grads are weighing their career options and presently employed job searchers are contemplating a relocation. Mississippi. North Carolina. North Dakota.

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Higher Education’s Big Pivot – Giving Students the Skills Employers Value

Salesforce

One of the schools trying to eliminate the mismatch is University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML), a public institution 30 miles northwest of Boston. The depth of education transformation championed by Gao, though, goes beyond digitizing presentations and recorded Zoom lectures. Matching curriculum to industry demand.

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LBS Update #4

The Lost Book of Sales

What it means to be truly educated 📖 👨‍ Hi, my name is Noam Chomsky, I'm a retired professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where I've been for 65 years. Read the full post. Chomsky on being truly educated.