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The Best Thing Sales Leadership Can do in 2012

A Sales Guy

The beginning of the year in sales always starts with a number. Sales leadership spends a lot of time going through plans, setting quota, preparing for Q1, looking at the pipeline, etc. The best thing sales leadership can do in 2012 is support the sales team. Then it moves to getting to the number.

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5 Ways Companies Fail Their Sales Teams

A Sales Guy

Sales people have enough challenges externally to getting the deal closed, they don’t need to have to fight internally too. Get rid of the sales prevention department and stop making it hard for you sales people to sell. Sales are increasingly more and more complex. Support your sales team.

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There are ONLY 4 Levers Sales Can Pull to Grow Revenue

A Sales Guy

It’s not uncommon for revenue to slide. It happens to all sales organizations at one time or another. Revenue being down, isn’t the most difficult problem. Knowing why revenue is down and where to look is the biggest challenge. When sales are down there are only 4 levers leadership can pull to improve sales.

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