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How to Develop a Sales Enablement Plan That Delivers Results

How to Develop a Sales Enablement Plan That Delivers Results

It’s a cruel twist of fate for senior sales and revenue leaders that as the year barrels toward a close with urgency to maximize the remaining time, that strategic and tactical planning for the next year must happen at the same time. At a minimum, these leaders must tackle quota setting, territory optimization, account assignments, […]

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The Path to Sales Growth through Customer Focus – Part 2

This post continues the previous discussion of enabling sales growth through customer focus. “The journey toward sales growth starts and ends with our customers.” – Mike Kunkle Customer Focus Framework for Sales Growth In part 1 of this series, I shared my Customer Focus Framework for Sales Growth.  The five pillars of this framework include: […]

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Improve Your Sales Coaching with Two Simple Steps – Part 1

Coaching & Fashion – Models Abound There are many solid models for generalized sales coaching and sales rep development. Most of these models address how to coach – meaning, how to conduct an effective, interactive coaching session. Appropriately, these models usually include some sort of Socratic, dialogue-based, facilitative approach, similar to effective selling, interactive classroom […]

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How to Increase Sales with Top Performer Analysis – Part 2

In part one of this series, I discussed the misnomer inherent in the term “best practices” and recommended “top performer practices” instead. I also pinpointed the reason for the bad reputation, since poorly executed best practices projects often fail to produce tangible results. In the projects I’ve run over the past 25+ years, I’ve learned […]

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