EcSELL Institute
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Combo Article Friday – Finding New Business and Sales
- January 3, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I wrote an article for the Sales Blog over at Hubspot on how Inbound Marketing has really been around, like, forever.
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This is How Sales Managers Should Coach Their Salespeople
- March 13, 2013
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
A salesperson told me he met with a customer that had taken their business to a competitor because of price. It sounded like they were getting what they were paying for:
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Does Your Sales Force Look Like This?
- April 12, 2012
- Posted by: Kurlan & Associates, Inc.
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I shared just a few of the charts, graphs and tables, which we include in a sales force evaluation when we are answering common, but difficult, business questions such as:
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Sales Education – New Events, Articles and Books
- February 28, 2012
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Today’s article has a collection of links to help you, your sales managers and your salespeople become more effective.
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The Difference Between Good and Bad Sales Coaching Questions
- February 17, 2011
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
When it comes to coaching salespeople, there are both good and bad questions that sales managers can ask to get the conversation started. Here are some examples:
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The Science of Selling – Rules versus Data
- February 25, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
The true science in selling is the research and data that explain performance. In Baseball, a good or bad year, by a team or player, is not explained so much by whether the rules were followed – they probably were – but by the statistics that explain why a good or bad year occurred. We have the same thing in sales and Objective Management Group may have the mother load of that data.
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3 Powerful Excuses for Maintaining Mediocrity in Your Sales Hiring
- January 26, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
When I answered questions from the audience, the best one, in my opinion, was the most obvious. It went something like this:
“If your recruiting process works so effectively, and your assessments are so predictive, and they save so much time and money and consistently identify top performers, then why don’t more companies use them?”
