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The 9 Most-Deadly Sins in Sales & Marketing
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| If business can be described as "war without guns" then Sales & Marketing are the military arm
* Salespeople are the ground forces: Infantry, Cavalry, Armored
* Marketing is Intelligence (Research & Market Data), Strategy, Planning, Artillery & Air (ads & promotion)
Because most companies don't think of Business Development in these terms, they continually repeat the 9 Most-Deadly Sins listed below: |
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Are You a Great Manager?
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| A twenty-five year Gallup study of over eighty thousand managers discovered the secrets of great managers. Here’s what the research uncovered -- Great managers hire employees based on talent, not experience. This flies in the face of the arguments I hear from sales managers all over the country. They want experienced salespeople. Gallup found that great managers look at talent, not just history. |
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MARKETING YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW FOR BUSINESSES DEVELOPMENT.
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| Marketing concept has evolved over the years. It has gone through some sort of evolution to where we are today. There have been marked stages and these stages are the following:
Industrial revolution: at this stage specialization took place, with the industrial revolution, wages were introduced. At this stage the farmers could produce and sell to the industrial workers. The marketing and the business concept was simple at this stage but later become more complicated eventually. In marketing this stage is called the production stage, it took a while and Henry Ford perfected it. He came up with the car assembly and mass market was born. At this stage there was limited choice for the customer. |
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Exceptional Prospectors
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| Over the past 14 years, my team has conducted thousands of psychological assessments and interviews with both managers and salespeople about their prospecting and sales behaviours.
Our research has consistently revealed that salespeople often experience their greatest difficulties, dissatisfaction, and anxiety at the prospecting stage of the sales cycle. Meanwhile, Sales Managers repeatedly express their frustration that they cannot find salespeople who are competent, confident, and motivated to prospect for new business.
Prospecting requires sales people to establish contact with people who might buy your products or services. Whether it is phone, face-to-face or group prospecting, inbound or outbound, nothing gets sold until you get in front of and/or talk to potential buyers. |
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Three Stages of a Sales Agent
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| Sales agents and advisors have a life cycle, similar to that of the life cycle of a franchisee. There's a beginning stage, an intermediate stage, and the final result stage. Most agents and advisors behave in a similar fashion during the first two stages, but their behavior can differ dramatically in the final result stage. But I'm getting ahead of myself… |
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So what is the Definition of a Manager?
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| A classic definition of what managers are about is that ‘Leaders do the right thing and managers do things right’. A more standard definition is that managers would work towards the organisation’s goals using the resources at their disposal.
It of course also depends on the size of the organisation. Larger companies might require managers to oversee the efforts and achievements of a further level of managers. A General Manager might have several other managers reporting to him or even several levels of management reporting to each other. |
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Entrepreneurs Raising Early Stage Venture Capital are in a Beauty Contest
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| Startup and Early Stage entrepreneurs must compete for the attention and limited capital available from angel investors and early stage venture capitalists. In many ways it can be compared to a Beauty Contest. The business fundamentals of a successful business are in place, but to be "picked" from the other companies also pitching those investors, that company must be the most attractive to that investor, that judge who will decide if the company qualifies to go to the next stage in the process. |
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Selling from the Page Is the New Social Media Marketing Behavior
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| Most people do not like to be sold from the stage. Yet social media has redefined selling from the stage to selling from the page. |
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Are You Genuinely A Leader Or Merely A Manager?
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| Without managers, the visions of leaders remain dreams. Leaders need managers to convert visions into realities. For continuous success, organizations need both managers and leaders. However, as most seem to be over-managed and under-led, they need to find ways of having both at the same time. Perhaps the best way to handle this paradox is for managers to aim to be managers when viewed from above, leaders when viewed from below and to remember that the need for leadership grows as we move up the organization. This is only one of the challenges that can make working life fun.
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Killer Closes (From the Go for the Gold Summit)
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| This is the first time I’ve shared my easy formula for selling from the stage and creating more sales through public speaking. Here are 6 things you can do to market from the stage, including my Killer Close: the Back-of-the-Room Formula. |
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Dealing with Prospects in the 'Untroubled/Unaware' Stage
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| The most difficult challenge in sales is talking to prospect who need your product or service - but don't know it. They do not see the trouble or the need to change, so we call this the Untroubled/Unaware stage. This article explains how to deal with people in this stage. |
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