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How to Make a Remote Sale

Sales and Marketing Management

Provide a focused agenda. The agenda provides a clear plan for the conversation to ensure you respect their time and achieve both parties’ goals. If the agenda includes virtual log-in, dial-in, or other logistics, send it in advance of the meeting as a reminder.

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Creating an Account Plan for Any Sales Organization: 5 Components that Help Plans Succeed

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Mark Donnolo Account planning is an essential part of any high-performing sales organization. Every sales organization is unique, but most have similar challenges and succeed according to a common set of principles. The six components below encapsulate a best practices account plan for any organization.

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For a Great Sales Kickoff, Think Beyond the Meeting

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Colleen Honan and Liz Pulice As we head into 2020, many organizations are preparing for their sales kickoff meetings. These meetings are usually the one time of the year when companies can assemble their entire sales organization and get the team energized, engaged and prepared for the year ahead. . Before the Meeting.

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Tips to Upsell and Cross-Sell to Current Clients

SalesFuel

He recommends asking yourself the following to uncover opportunities: What value have similar organizations gotten from us? In what other ways can we support their agenda with our offerings? This means, he writes, “they work collaboratively with clients to construct new ways of delivering value.”

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Creative Virtual Strategies to Engage with Clients

Sales and Marketing Management

However, organizations are continuing to grow business despite the pandemic. Many organizations will usually take clients to sports games, dinners, or happy hours to build rapport. This cadence won’t overwhelm your clients and will keep your organization top of mind for them. . Here are three important factors to consider: .

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5 Ways to Deliver a Truly Impactful Sales Kickoff

Sales and Marketing Management

The three-day agenda combined information sharing, skills development, team workshops and fun, which I’m sure sounds pretty familiar. In InsideView’s case, we’d gone back and forth over the past few years between large scale/scope/budget/bold agenda and conservative/scaled back. We recently completed our sales kickoff at InsideView.

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Every Great Conversation

Sales and Marketing Management

Author: Randy Sabourin The most important things that happen at any organization are conversations. A salesperson who struggles to have meaningful customer conversations, a leader who is misunderstood when implementing strategy, or a manager who prefers to avoid coaching conversations are all negatively affecting their organizations.

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