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Unleashing Potential: How to Turn Around a Historically Underperforming Sales Territory
Earlier in my career, I was challenged by my sales manager to resuscitate a historically underachieving sales territory. It was a vertical market—healthcare—and it was limited by having very few (approximately one hundred) target customers in the region. I developed a...
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Five Tips for a Successful 2023 Recruiting Season
With so many fluctuations in the job market, hiring companies will need to move quickly to get the best and brightest talent. We share five tips to help with your recruiting efforts.
A Faster Start for “the Grinder”
Diversity expands perception and understanding, brings new ideas, and sparks innovation Diversity, equality, and...
Top 5 Ways to Create a Winning Lead Nurturing Program
Lead nurturing is a necessary and critical part of IT sales. Discover our top 5 tips for boosting your lead nurturing program.
OLDER POSTS
How to Exit the COVID Era With a Stronger Sales Team
Practically overnight, COVID-19 has ushered in numerous changes to sales teams and the workplace at large—from a mobile, collaborative, and group-based environment to an individualized and isolating work-from-home dynamic. But...
Time Is Money: 270-Year-Old Advice for Modern Sales Management
Time is money. This famous aphorism, coined more than 270 years ago by the eminently quotable Benjamin Franklin, hasn't lost its relevance. Today I'd like to focus on this lesser-known excerpt in the same essay: “He that can earn ten shillings a day by his labour, and...
Building Your Sales Quota from the Bottom Up
How to Set a Realistic 2021 Sales Quota Predictability, in the age of modern B2B sales, is often hard to come by. Each new year brings new challenges. Changes in the local marketplace, tectonic technological shifts, broader economic factors, and even social...
Time to Sharpen Your IT Marketing Tools for 2021
It’s that time of year again. End of year sales are over and business output has downshifted. Many are knee-deep into post-mortem analyses of the prior year while budgets await allocation. For leading content marketers, the season’s lighter load is the perfect...
Arming Your Sales Team with Virtual Selling Tools
After managing virtual sales teams for two-plus decades, we share best practices for managing a remote sales team.
How to Close the Widening Skills Gap Quickly
Technology is now outpacing expertise, creating a skills gap that can lead to lost business. Find out what steps to take future-proof your org and attract top talent.