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Take Your Show on the Road

Harvard Business Review

The managers who express this idea in our simulated competitive games aren’t thinking of some simple shelving-units-on-wheels format – the kind of oversized salesman’s bag that’s been hauled out to prospects for decades. It has made me think I should consider it more closely, and share it more broadly.

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How To Master The Art Of Social Selling

Eric Jacobson

AMACOM Business Leadership Management Selling Shannon Belew Social Networks The Art Of Social Selling' If you don''t yet believe the power of social selling, consider these stats and realities from Belew''s book : Without social selling, 40 percent of sales teams make less than 80 percent of quota, on average (Xactly research).

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Stop Selling and Add Value | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Call me crazy, but I don’t want to talk to someone who wants to manage my account, develop my business, or engineer my sale. Today’s consumer (B2B or B2C) does their homework, is well informed, and buys…they are not sold. I "sell" day to day B2c and B2B and its about relationship and problem solving.

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The Art Of Social Selling

Eric Jacobson

If you don't yet believe the power of social selling, consider these stats and realities from Belew's book : Without social selling, 40 percent of sales teams make less than 80 percent of quota, on average (Xactly research).

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA," Kaufer remarked. In December 2011, Expedia felt it wasn't getting full economic credit for TripAdvisor buried within its financials and so spun TripAdvisor out as an independent company, where it now trades on the NASDAQ with a $4.8 billion market capitalization as of this writing.

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