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Questions for Completing and Beginning the Year

By execstratgroup On January 6, 2012 · Leave a Comment · In Leadership, Motivation, Sales Efficiency Tips, Time Management, Time Mastery

I am a subscriber and frequent reader of David Allen’s Getting Things Done BLOG (http://www.davidco.com/about-gtd). This month he provides you with some great questions to ask yourself as you exit last year and head into this year (http://www.davidco.com/newsletters/archive/0112.html).

DAVID’S FOOD FOR THOUGHT

QUESTIONS FOR COMPLETING AND [...]

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How to Manage Your People…without Having to Be a “Hard-Ass”

By execstratgroup On December 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Develop Company Strategy, Leadership, Motivation

by Christopher Yonker

From my experience, one of the top self-proclaimed weaknesses of entrepreneurs and business leaders today is that of being a “push over.”

They find it difficult to confront their employees and hold them accountable. Oftentimes, issues build and stockpile until finally, the last straw is broken.

Frequently, the challenge is [...]

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9 Sales Metrics to Increase Your Sales Territory Success – Plan Like Alexander The Great

On October 25, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica

Alexander the Great was born sometime around 355 BC in the area of Macedonia near Greece. While still in his early teens, Alexander grew to become a fearless and aggressive strategy-based leader who sought to conquer the whole world.

After wining the battle of Granicus (his first battle), his reputation spread quickly [...]

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Developing and Mapping Your Sales Process

On October 11, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica

Developing a sales process that is successful, replicable, and measurable is one key to growing your firm. Like six sigma models, the correct sales process is designed to minimize and eliminate business errors that reduce your sales operational deficiencies and increase corporate profitability. Having corporate revenue success is not always a proven [...]

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Lost Sales Analysis For Greater Sales Management Success

On September 27, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica

 

One of the best sales tools available to CEO’s, VP’s of Sales and sales managers when evaluating salespeople and sales performance is the use of a lost sales analysis metrics program. The lost sales analysis is more effective than percent of quota attainment as a measurement tool, because it measures not [...]

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8 Ways Management Teams Lead Their Companies and How It Affects Their Sales Teams

On September 13, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica 

Working with ten of thousands of salespeople and hundreds of companies during the last eleven years, at Value Forward Group we have identified 8 common types of management styles. These management descriptions are not always reflective of the company size but more on how they manage their firm.

Each of the 8 [...]

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Are You A Fireman Always Putting Out Fires?

On August 30, 2011 By Kevin McCann
how to become a fireman

by Paul DiModica 

Salespeople love leads – inbound, tradeshows, networking. Leads, leads and more leads . . . that’s all we want. But the management of those leads and how they are handled is important to their sales success.

When selling prospects, there are several options to managing the prospect as a lead opportunity. You [...]

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How to Close More Sales Opportunities by Using Words Your Prospects Want to Hear!

On August 23, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica 

When selling products and services, the words you and I use reflect to the prospect our education, training and knowledge of their business issues. In sales, communication can be the pen that signs the P.O. or the sword that cuts the deal.

When cold calling or meeting with C-level executives of Fortune 1000 [...]

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How to Use Cross-Selling Techniques to Increase Sales

On August 16, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica 

To increase sales performance and customer account lifetime value, cross-selling is a key business tool that when used correctly can close complicated sales opportunities, eliminate competitive issues, and create a “visual value” of your market differential.

But when cross-selling is deployed incorrectly, it can confuse buyers, delay sales cycles, and sometimes induce [...]

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It’s Time to Play Like a Champion

On August 9, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Kevin McCann

It’s Time To Play Like a Champion from Kevin McCann on Vimeo.

I often talk about tools and methods of how CEO’s can improve their businesses by integrating strategy, marketing and sales – and we offer numerous answers and breakthroughs for our clients in this area.

However, [...]

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Measuring Your Sales Strategy I.Q.

On August 9, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica 

Selling is a “Zero Sum Game.”

Someone wins and someone loses.

When developing your sales process (as a corporation or as a quota carrying salesperson), you need to decide if you are going to use a premeditated (proactive) sales process or a reactive sales process to manage your zero sum game [...]

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The 7 Stages of Prospect Commitment You Need to Manage

On July 21, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica

Are you managed by your prospects? Are you projecting your needs onto prospects — hoping they will buy? Are you held hostage to the small size of your sales pipeline?

To sell more products and services, it is important to manage prospects — not have them manage you. Selling is a [...]

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How to Use Prospect Engagement Outlines to Shorten Your Sales Cycle

On June 21, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica

As salespeople, we must manage prospects’ buying cycles with our selling cycles.

When trying to sell prospects, we sometimes discover they do not know how to buy correctly. So your prospects’ lack of buying skills can affect your sales success and the accuracy of your sales forecast.

Taking this into consideration, how [...]

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How to Articulate Your Value in 6 Words or Less

On June 7, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica

On the Internet, there is a web site called “six word stories” located at http://www.sixwordstories.net that is a tribute to Ernest Hemingway. According to history, the great life writer Ernest Hemingway was challenged to pen a short story in six words or less.

The word “story” according to Webster’s Merriam [...]

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Increase Your Business Success By Building Your Business To Sell (Even if you are not going to sell)

On May 31, 2011 By Kevin McCann
Exit strategy pinned on noticeboard

by Paul DiModica

Recently, USA Today ran an article about an increase in mergers and acquisitions.  Considering that information, I wanted to share some information about increasing your valuation even if you don’t plan to sell.

To grow your company’s top line revenue or to sell your business requires an active business model that uses [...]

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Increase Your Success Through a Better Sales Forecast

On May 17, 2011 By Kevin McCann
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by Paul DiModica

6 Reasons Why Most Sales Forecasts
Are Inaccurate and Why They
Hamper Corporate Profitability

One success driver for companies to grow their top line revenue is the accurate management of their sales forecast. A sales forecast is a leading business driver that when used correctly, increases corporate cash [...]

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