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The biggest thing sales leaders overlook: SALES!

Strategy Driven

I’m an outside salesman who spends countless hours filling in itineraries, CRM notes, and reports. Thanks for any advice you can give me. My first piece of advice is: Get your boss fired as soon as possible. You seem to be doing the right thing – INCREASING SALES, and having the best year of your career.

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Salespeople have questions. Jeffrey has answers.

Strategy Driven

Every salesperson who has a CRM – SalesForce.com , Microsoft Dynamics, whatever it is – is required to put stuff into their computer on an everyday basis for every sales call they make and there’s one universal truth about it: they all can’t stand it. Do I need two different approaches? Gerhard, No. Ask your vendors.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

My advice is simple…stop rationalizing and justifying doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons, stop whining & complaining and get in the game - do the right thing. link] robpetersen Mike, Great advice and a great foundation piece on social media. This is where much of the true complexity lies.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

When you are young, or when your why is non-existent or has gone missing, which happens to most of us at some juncture in our business or career, it may be that you just need to move forward. CRM started as a simple-to-use, cloud-based (read: low cost) sales data warehouse. Career planning Managing yourself'

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Don’t Waste Your Time on Networking Events

Harvard Business Review

They have been a staple of aspiring and successful professionals for so long that most networking advice focuses not on whether you should attend, but on how to make the most of these events when you do attend. People who fall into this category are: former classmates, former co-workers, or any contacts from a previous career (to name a few).

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How an NBA Team Thinks About Data, Talent, and Pricing

Harvard Business Review

We have a global audience that has an unending thirst for mobile content, and a sophisticated CRM database that allows us to be a state-of-the-art marketing operation. If you could give your younger self one piece of career advice, what would it be? Learn how to run a regression analysis! It takes humility to do that.

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How Deloitte Consulting LLP and Salesforce Are Using Technology to Transform the Employee Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DELOITTE’S CONNECTME AND SALESFORCE

Harvard Business Review

ConnectMe leverages the world’s leading CRM cloud solution, Salesforce, to help organizations navigate the changing workplace and deliver an exceptional employee experience. A company that’s growing must be able to retain its talent and show them different career paths. Angelia Herrin, HBR. Angelia Herrin, HBR.