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How to Radically Improve Your B2B Sales Win Rates

How to Radically Improve Your B2B Sales Win Rates

In this post, I’m going to share some simple concepts that I’ve seen deliver radically improved results across a sales force. And by “radically,” I mean improve opportunity management effectiveness and skyrocket win rates by 25-40%. I’ve been part of delivering these results, multiple times in my career, for both employers and clients. It’s entirely […]

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How to Resize and Retool Your Sales Force

How to Resize and Retool Your Sales Force the Right Way

This is a post I never wanted to write. I originally posted it as a LinkedIn Article in August of 2020 and unfortunately, find it relevant again already in mid-2022. At the time I published it initially, I had hoped the worst of the pandemic-fueled layoffs were behind us. Unfortunately, many company executives still needed […]

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The Sliding Scale of Sales Transformation

The Sliding Scale of Sales Transformation Cover

Sales Transformation. It’s a term that means different things to different people. I’ve been involved in sales transformations that were entirely focused on getting the best-possible performance out of the sales force (ranging from a 30 to 600 percent increase in sales), independent of retooling the rest of the organization. In my experience, the potential […]

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What’s Your Strategy for Sales Talent Development? Part 2

Whats Your Strategy for Sales Talent Development Part 2

In the first post in this series, I defined Learning, Training, Development, and Education. Learning: Learning is the act of acquiring new knowledge and skills. Training: Training is job-related learning about what, why, and how (and maybe when and where) to do something (or multiple things), to be successful in a specific role. Development: Development […]

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Why I Decided to Join the SPARXiQ Team

Mike Kunkle Joins SPARXiQ

[NOTE: This post was originally published in late November of 2018. I have updated it to reflect a few changes, including the company rebranding, my title, and some cool new solutions that we offer.] The position change announcement feature on LinkedIn has become the birthday announcement on Facebook. Except for anyone with a large network, […]

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Transform Your Sales Results with a Systems Approach – Part 4: Sales Training

Transform Your Sales Results with a Systems Approach - Part 4 Sales Training System

  In Part 1 of this series, I shared that the solution to our current sales problems and the vehicle for transforming your sales results is a Systems Approach to Sales. The four systems I cited are: Sales Selection System Sales Readiness System (formerly Sales Support) Sales Training System (formerly Sales Learning) Sales Management System In Part 2 of […]

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