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    Capacity Beats Efficiency: How VMCL Gives Complex Sales Teams the Edge

    The most effective B2B sales organizations are more than just efficient. They’re effective. They make good use of salespeople’s time, they bring home more (and more profitable) sales than their competitors, and they stay strategic to provide outstanding value to buyers and to their own company.

    by George Brontén

    Embracing The “Messiness” Of Buying And Selling

    As human beings and business professionals we crave structure and order in everything we do. We build carefully architected sales processes. Our customers draft detailed project plans, guiding them on their journey.

    by Dave Brock

    Why Cheatsheets And Hacks Don’t Deliver

    My feeds in social media are filled with Cheatsheets, Hacks, Templates—all sorts of tools. They attract lots of interest, lots of requests. People are looking for anything they can do to help them do their jobs, to find the shortcuts or secrets to success. I look at them, most are pretty good, there are always interesting ideas and approaches.

    by Dave Brock

    The Death of Customer Proposals. Stop Sending Proposals and Win More Sales

    The proposal trap: You just got off the phone with what you thought to be a promising prospect. At the end of the conversation, you told the prospect that you’d be sending them a proposal.

    by Keith Rosen

    Top 20 Reasons Why Sales Opportunities Don’t Close

    As regular readers know, I often use baseball as an analogy to help readers more easily understand the many facets of selling.  We are going to discuss closing but we’ll begin with closing’s baseball cousin, scoring.

    by Dave Kurlan

    Your Sales Success Depends on Your Decision-Making Context

    Every sale, in the end, is a decision. To make more sales, salespeople need to understand how their customers make decisions. In order to understand how they make them, they need to understand the context in which they are making them.

    by George Brontén
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