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Day Two at The Conference Board’s Senior Sales Executive Conference

The focus of this year’s conference was Sales Operations as a Strategic Revenue Growth Asset. Today featured a number of presentations from practitioners, all of whom took a deeper dive into some of the themes from yesterday.

Four Themes from The Conference Board’s Senior Sales Executive Conference

Four Themes from The Conference Board’s Senior Sales Executive Conference I had every intention of making four or five posts ...

4 Ways to Improve Your Ability to Take Initiative in Sales

1. Define What It Means to be Proactive The first way to take initiative is to define what it means to be proactive. This is ...

5 Ways to Be More Competitive in Sales

1. First Beat Your Most Difficult Opponent: You! There is an old Japanese saying, “Makatsu Agatsu.” It translates to “True ...

5 Ways to Be Optimistic in Sales (Or Anything Else)

I have written before about self-discipline and optimism, because I believe they are so critical to success in sales–and ...
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7 Ways to Be More Disciplined

Self-discipline is the master key to sales success. All other disciplines, attributes, and skill sets are built upon the ...

When It Is Okay To Fail

When It Is Okay To Fail It is okay to fail when you have given it your very best effort, when you have played the game to ...

How to Study Sales on SBU and Chicago Tweetup

On Sales Bloggers Union Each month I contribute an article to Sales Bloggers Union (SBU). This month the topic is Different ...

Manage Outcomes: The Ability to Achieve Results

The tenth and final sales-related skill set is the ability to manage outcomes. It is built on the foundational success ...
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Leadership: The Ability to Generate Results Through Others

What is Leadership? The definition of leadership is too ambitious for this humble blog post: there are too many opinions and ...

Change Management: The Ability to Help Others Improve

Businesses are made up of people, and change management is a people process. As such, change management requires many of the ...

Negotiation: The Ability to Create Win-Win Deals

What is Negotiation? Negotiation is the art of the deal. Negotiation is an event, or series of events, designed to produce ...

Storytelling: The Ability to Create and Share a Vision

The sixth attribute and sales-related skill set is storytelling.
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Diagnose: The Desire to Understand

The fifth attribute and sales-related skill set is the ability to diagnose.

Live from The Conference Board’s Senior Sales Executive Conference Feb 23rd and 24th.

Skip Anderson from Selling to Consumers and I will be blogging live from The Conference Board’s Senior Sales Executive ...

Business Acumen: A General Understanding of Business Principles

Business acumen doesn’t follow closing, differentiation, or prospecting, even though it is fourth on the list.

Prospecting: The Ability to Open Relationships

The third sales-related attribute is the ability to prospect.
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Differentiate: The Ability to Stand Out In a Crowd

The ability to differentiate follows closing because you need to be able to obtain commitments in order to have the ...

Closing: The Ability to Ask For and Obtain Commitments

The attributes a successful salesperson must possess and develop are built upon the foundational success attributes covered ...

Influence: The Ability to Persuade Others

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