tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87976939188596029812024-02-20T05:13:56.617-08:00keiraknightleypussy.blogspot.comssshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241716944492905746noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797693918859602981.post-18684831195579892482012-12-30T05:07:00.000-08:002012-12-30T05:08:35.995-08:00Lace Wedding Dresses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Wedding dresses ar presupposed to be extravagant and crowd pleasing. There ar a range of materials to decide on from, for your wedding dress. Lace recently may be a terribly trendy material once it involves creating wedding robes. Earlier lace was used majorly in wedding dresses. With time it light and wasn’t seen any longer. however recently it's return in fashion. Kate pamphleteer sets a really example of mistreatment lace in her wedding outfit. Her dress was swish and glossy and it absolutely was not the least bit quaint. albeit several designers compared her dress with Grace Kelly’s dress, it still stood up to today’s fashion.</div>
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ssshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241716944492905746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797693918859602981.post-12482301194759092302012-12-28T05:11:00.000-08:002012-12-30T05:12:22.777-08:00The best beauty trends of 2012 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What a beauty-full year it’s been! 2012 saw several of our most fashionable stars setting latest trends, from hot pink lips to the daring brow championed by our terribly own peeress.</div>
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Long lashes, smoky eyes and lashings of red lippie conjointly compete their spare famed faces together with Angelina Jolie, Kristen Stewart and Penelope Cruz serving to establish a number of the year’s prime beauty crazes.</div>
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And we were even shown a way to work the difficult ‘natural look’ courtesy of our red carpet favourites painter spirited and Kate Winslet.</div>
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Red lips</div>
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Another unaltered classic that remained a hot trend in 2012 was the red lip.</div>
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Bright and daring, it’s a move to for all listing beauties. Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johannson were simply 2 of Hollywood’s leading girls operating the planning</div>
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This year we have a tendency to bid farewell to skinny eyebrows and went larger and bolder. Heading up this fall trend was our terribly own peeress of Cambridge, whose fuller brows got girls everyplace reaching for his or her brow pencils.</div>
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Model of the instant Cara Delevigne was another beauty favorite championing the planning</div>
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Bronzed beauty</div>
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A sun-kissed complexion may be a beauty favorite. A sweep of bronzer helps heat up the skin and build a perfect canvas, a la Jennifer Aniston and Jennifer Lopez UN agency championed this beauty basic this year</div>
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ssshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241716944492905746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797693918859602981.post-7357850900520138262012-12-27T09:00:00.000-08:002012-12-30T05:10:47.716-08:00FSM Style Guide – This Fall’s Fashion Chick By Aneliya Vasilieva<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In several arenas of late, it’s—to borrow a phrase from Beyoncé—girls World Health Organization run the globe (and wherever they don’t, maybe they should). thus what additional applicable message to examine on fall’s runways than that of authorization, with the simplest designers in ny, London, Milan, and Paris giving sturdy, chic, individual girls new ways in which of dressing. The mood is adult and polished, with major embellishment, geometric prints, rich color, and plenty of terrific statement coats (that generally aren’t coats in the slightest degree, however dresses or the like). really the shows effectively captured the ideology, wit, color, and originative spirit that may be celebrated this spring and summer once the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan repository of Art displays the work of Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli—two of fashion’s strongest girls if ever there have been.</div>
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As they are saying, the devil is within the details. the autumn 2012 runways brought a moody class to accessories, with broody hues on the new high boot, work-ready portfolios, outsized totes and additional — all flat-topped off with the season’s metal of selection — silver.</div>
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There ar around one thousand thousand fall trends this season (we’ve been keeping shut track), and separating the wheat from the straight-to-sale rack will want an endeavor in unusefulness. What new purchases can very last you your whole life…or, at least, following 5 years? that trends are literally price finance in? What items can cause you to appear as if a tuned-in girl, and which can cause you to look out of touch?</div>
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ssshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241716944492905746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797693918859602981.post-66610835093766106362009-05-05T14:38:00.000-07:002015-08-21T09:47:31.247-07:00Sales Targets: You Can't Hit Them If You Don't Have Them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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How often do you get in your car and drive aimlessly? How often do you get into a train or a car without a destination? I am guessing never, because those things take time and money and you can't waste either of them. However, when CEO's of many small and mid-size businesses are asked if they set sales targets, and if so, do they set them in stone, the answers make you squint and cringe like Clint Eastwood. There's a lot of "no," "sort of," "not really's" and "we just tell the salespeople to go out and sell".</div>
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There is working smart, working hard and then there is just working stupid. Not setting sales targets and wondering why your sales team is not producing makes you the one who should be wearing the dunce cap. Every organization, and that means every single one, has to have sales targets. Who cares if you've been getting by without them because that is just getting by. Knocking sales out of the park should be your goal. Sales targets are the highways businesses drive on and without them, it's a bumpy ride.</div>
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So, here is a start to setting targets:</div>
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What type of behaviour do you want to motivate?</div>
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What did the numbers look like last year?</div>
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How much, by customer, do you think is possible to sell in the coming year? This forecast should be a range between realistic and optimistic based on what is in your sales tracking system. If not, have you spoken to your account team about their individual accounts? (More on the importance of sales tracking to come in this series.)</div>
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What is a realistic number for growth? i.e. 5%, 10%, 20% more?</div>
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Do you have a commission structure in place and if so, is it geared to get results (more on this in part IV of the "Why Your Sales Team is not a Sales Force").</div>
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There are only five steps here and even doing these imperfectly is better than doing nothing. Once you have solid sales targets in place, your sales force is going to become results driven because there is a target. This by itself will make a substantial difference. So, now that you know where to get started, get planning, get going, and get those sales!</div>
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ssshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241716944492905746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797693918859602981.post-30536995325390843332006-03-15T08:33:00.000-08:002015-08-21T09:43:45.469-07:00Adversaries, What to Do and How to Spot Them<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've heard a saying "The customer is not stupid, the customer is your spouse" or "The prospect is not your enemy, the prospect is your fiance." In other words, your customers and your prospects should be your friends. You should always strive to work together, to build trust, to make that win-win relationship we hear about.</div>
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There is no excuse for letting your sales work result in a large number of enemies, rather than a long list of allies. There is ridiculous advice floating around about how you need to beat up on a prospect before they beat up on you. That's rude, unprofessional, and arrogant. Your prospect would really rather have you for a friend, someone they can depend on, someone they get advice from, someone who can help them. In return, you enjoy their business. Believe it or not, most customers like to reward the salespeople</div>
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they work with and want you to know you are appreciated.</div>
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The measure of a successful sale is how well you've matched a true need of a client with true benefits from the product or service you offer. If the sale you are about to take doesn't measure up to these standards, maybe you should think twice about taking the sale and explore with your client whether you both are making the right decision.</div>
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Now for a warning. Are you the kind of salesperson that takes a sale once in a while that you weren't sure was really in the customer's best interest? Are you the one who has been thrown out of someone's office a few too many times, or hung up on more than once a day? If that's you, get some additional training very soon. Take a hard look at what you say, how you say it, and what the process is that leads to anger or frustration in yourself and your client. You will never really be successful until you adopt a much different attitude.</div>
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Now for the sales managers. Do you have someone on your staff that you suspect is in this category. Usually they're easily recognizable from the fact that for the number of calls made, the numbers are way too low. Please take the time to spend a day on the road with them or sit behind them for a few hours and do some coaching. A person in this category represents your company. I've seen this so many times where a salesperson makes lots of calls, but the fact is that mostly, they are making enemies of a finite number of potential clients. Better get on this quick. Sorry, that may have come off as negative. If anyone is offended, please accept my apologies. This is a call to professionalism in your work as salespeople. Making an adversary of your client just promotes the used car salesperson mentality. This is a proud profession. Take pride in your work.</div>
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ssshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241716944492905746noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797693918859602981.post-40651857279227953652005-05-10T09:05:00.000-07:002015-08-21T09:45:13.128-07:00The Sell Side of Things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There have been countless number articles on sales and how to sell. The emphasis has been more on meeting individual targets and being on the run always.</div>
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A sale is not a single transaction by a single person as is generally perceived. It is a strategic process that is supported by all the members of the team. Apart from the salesman's effort, it also involves:</div>
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I) Effort by the technical team - to make the quality of the product / service sale-able.</div>
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iii) Effort by the finance team - to price the product / service correctly for the client.</div>
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This is where your creativity, strategies, relationships, quality, almost everything comes into play. You are successful when you sell without having to go through the rigours of selling.</div>
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The best show of strength is to listen and to listen carefully. Most salesmen do not listen because they are busy selling their wares to the customer. That is where they fail. The idea is not to force a sale on the customer, but to let the customer buy from you.</div>
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The author is a serial entrepreneur and mentor. He is also a visiting lecturer in various institutions. He is a pioneer in Knowledge Management and Outsourcing related businesses in India. He heads Shriyai - a strategic management consulting company. </div>
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ssshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04241716944492905746noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8797693918859602981.post-4134638863811968632003-04-15T08:30:00.000-07:002015-08-21T09:42:28.266-07:00Sun Tzu's Tip for New Sales Managers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ann spent years developing into a stellar sales rep for her employer, a tech company. She had a well-earned reputation for producing results far beyond expectations. Six months ago, they rewarded Ann's hard work by promoting her to the position of sales manager.</div>
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Now, Ann tells me she's working harder than ever before-and yet her team's results are mediocre at best. My words of advice to her and other new sales managers come from Sun Tzu (The Art of War), the great Chinese philosopher. He wrote: "Eventually your strengths will become a weakness."</div>
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In her job as a sales rep, Ann developed and honed certain attributes that contributed greatly to her sales success. But now as she tries to become an effective sales manager, those instincts that worked so well in the past are holding her back because they are the polar opposite of what she needs to do to lead a team.</div>
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For example, when Ann was a sales rep, she was keenly focused on making the close and getting results.</div>
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Now, as a sales manager, that instinct causes her to pay the most attention to her reps when their deals are approaching the close. It is what I call the "über-closer" syndrome-a manager leaves a rep alone but then swoops in at the end to help close the deal and save the day.</div>
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Trouble is, that's too late in the sales process for an effective sales manager to coach salespeople! The dollar amount of a sales opportunity-which reflects the urgency and extent of the customer's needs and the customer's selection criteria-are determined early in the sales process, long before the close step. How often do your salespeople make a smaller sale when the customer should have bought something larger?</div>
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Also, an über-closer sales manager can only provide evaluative-type feedback-comments that come after an event has happened. Reps perceive such comments as criticism, not coaching, because it doesn't help them solve an immediate problem or prevent future problems.</div>
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Effective sales managers understand that their purpose is to develop the skills of their sales reps. To achieve greater results, therefore, they must do more coaching during the earlier phases of a sales opportunity: where high-value sales skills such as account penetration, diagnostic questioning and architecting the customer's solution vision, are being applied.</div>
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I don't want to sound too critical of Ann. Her reliance on prior skills is not unusual, especially for someone who was so good at what she did. One thing we know from behavioral research is that the most successful people have the greatest difficulty giving up the activities and competencies that made them successful in the first place!</div>
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Ann has learned that Sun Tzu was right. For her to become a successful sales manager she must become aware of how some of her sales strengths can now become a management weakness. She must develop a specific action plan that will help her focus on coaching early-sales-cycle sales skills. I'd advise her, for instance, to coach someone first thing every morning-before she checks email or makes phone calls. This ensures that coaching is proactive, not reactive. She also needs to document the development goals for each rep and follow up with them as appropriate.</div>
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These changes have many benefits. If a rep makes a mistake, Ann will recognize it sooner, while there is still time to put the deal back on track. She'll start to see more better-qualified deals in her team's pipeline. Also, she will start providing coaching and feedback to reps in a more timely and consistent way. Her comments are thus more likely to be seen as constructive and helpful. That helps instill a team culture of continuous improvement.</div>
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When Ann sees her team's results start to improve, she'll know that she has won this particular war with herself!</div>
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There is an increasing pool of research-from respected organizations like Gallup and the Harvard Business Review, and also many newer research firms- demonstrating that the costs of a bad hire in B2B sales, more than any other functional group, are enormous.</div>
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Most B2B companies tend to grossly underestimate the negative consequences a bad sales hire can bring to their company.</div>
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Long-term impact on market share and brand - lost customers and brand loyalty</div>
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Let's look at an example for a company where the sales quota of the best salespeople is $1.5 million, and sub-par performers are delivering half of that ($750,000).</div>
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The annual impact of having a poor performer on the team can be estimated at $1,360,000 (including lost revenue, lost clients, and extra management costs). The costs of delaying action, to remove this individual, are $2.6 million over 2 years!</div>
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You must remember that B2B salespeople represent your company to your clients. Therefore, the impact of brand and market-share erosion over time, of a sub-par salesperson, can have grave consequences for your company.</div>
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CSO Insights, a sales research firm, puts out statistics it gathers every year from surveys it does with over 2500 companies.</div>
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They found that only 58.2% of B2B sales reps made quota in 2013 out of the 2500+ companies surveyed. That means that 42.8% of sales reps missed their quota.</div>
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It's usually because the sales rep hasn't had ongoing coaching to ingrain the sales training methodology into their daily routine.</div>
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Does Training & Coaching Pay Off?</div>
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Training gives a one-time boost in sales behaviour and results, but people quickly slip back into their old familiar behaviour without coaching reinforcement, and increases in sales are negligible.</div>
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However, with coaching after training, although there is a slight dip right after training, the sales people who received coaching keep getting better and better results.</div>
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Through all of my 40+ years of coaching, I have found that coaching costs very little compared to the increased results that have occurred. In many cases, coaching fees were less than 1% of the overall increase in revenues.</div>
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So, if you truly want to grow your business, you need to have your sales people trained and coached by professionals. And in most cases, this means hiring outside professional B2B sales coaches. You will see a very worthwhile ROI.</div>
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Competing at the top level is very exacting and can be very trying mentally. Anyone who has ever played golf knows that for sure.</div>
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But in order to succeed at any level, people need coaching. This is true for executives, business owners, and especially for sales and marketing people.</div>
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You use coaching for two main reasons.</div>
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1. To help you learn new skills, and to perfect or change old ones,</div>
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2. To give you feedback on how you are performing those skills, and to correct mistakes.</div>
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Feedback needs to be timely, accurate, consistent, relevant, and individualized. The other four factors are fairly self-explanatory, but let's have a look at what is needed to be accurate, and why it is important to be accurate.</div>
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In order to be accurate, you need to have some kind of measurement system in place to give you metrics about how someone is performing all the way through the sales cycle.</div>
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You need to measure things like;</div>
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1. Is she following up on leads? (I hope you have a good lead generation system)</div>
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2. Is he using the sales and marketing methodology that you have implemented? ( I hope you have one)</div>
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3. Does she qualify prospects well, so she's not chasing people that aren't going to buy right now?</div>
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4. Is he demonstrating your system properly, or does he do it too early or too late in the sales cycle?</div>
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5. Does she follow a correct proposal writing script that your company has implemented?</div>
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6. Does he follow-up properly with all prospects?</div>
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7. And all the way through the sales cycle.</div>
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You need to measure everything right through the sales cycle, until you either lose or win the business.</div>
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As you can see, in order for your company to meet its revenue targets in any year, you need to be implementing coaching in your business.</div>
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This coaching should also include the executives of your company, so everyone is on the same page.</div>
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It becomes pretty obvious that training with coaching pays off.</div>
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Are your sales reps, marketers and executives getting the training and coaching they need to understand sales and marketing better, and to able to reach quotas?</div>
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You already know that the B2B sales cycle can be anywhere from 2 months to 2 years. What if you could cut that time in half? Discover how you can do just that and at the same time stop chasing non-productive leads.</div>
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If you are looking to grow your sales force, it's no secret that finding the right people can be challenging, time consuming and sometimes even frustrating. A few key ingredients come to mind when looking for ways to attract the best talent your company can hire.</div>
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The first key is Compensation. Compensation is at the "heart" of most sales professionals, it is the romance language of all great sales-talent. Most people join the rank and files of sales not because they enjoy taking massive amounts of rejection, but because they are willing to rise to the challenge under the right set of conditions.</div>
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Give a sales professional a befitting product or service, effective leadership and a winning compensation plan and you have the basic recipe for success. Believe it or not, in some companies the number one sales person is paid more than the CEO. These savvy CEOs understand what motivates sales professionals and are happy to pay top commissions as they watch their companies achieve accelerated growth rates.</div>
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The second key is Leadership Support. Today, more than ever, outstanding sales people need strong leadership. Sales management is valued for their ability to provide direction, clarification, thought leadership and client acquisition strategy. Great leadership can attract over achieving sales professionals, improve performance, accelerate client acquisition, and reduce unwanted turnover.</div>
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When accomplished sales professionals consider changing companies, they look for managers who are knowledgeable, perceptive, cogent, confident, involved, trustworthy and approachable. They look for managers who have open door policies; the political prowess needed to acquire additional resources; the bravado to push though aggressive compensation plans and the influence needed to increase marketing support.</div>
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Top sales talent looks for leaders with integrity and a vested interest in serving both the client and the sales team. In the long run, your ability to attract top revenue generators will be a reflection of the organization and the sales leader, so make sure you have the right managers in place.</div>
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The third key ingredient needed to hire top sales talent is a comprehensive Recruiting Game Plan. It will be difficult to land top producers without a strong recruiting strategy. Finding top sales talent is a job that never ends, and if done haphazardly, can leave you vulnerable to hiring mediocre performers.</div>
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Remember that all top producing sales hires are highly profitable, so it makes sense to invest the time and energy needed to build a strong recruiting game plan. With a little planning and a strong commitment to investing in the best sales people, your organization will reap the rewards of building a fierce sales force that dominates the market, wins profitable business and captures more than its fair share of clients.</div>
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Sonja Hastings has more than 10 years of experience recruiting sales professionals in the software and services industries. With a passion for identifying and recruiting high-achieving talent, she has recruited more than 250 sales professionals across the country. Sonja has worked with Chief Revenue Officers, CFOs, CEOs and Vice Presidents to identify, attract and hire high-level talent. </div>
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