Sales Productivity

Sell with Maximum Impact in the Least Time
Sell with Maximum Impact in the Least Time Make every moment count To really crush it in sales, whether to close out the year on a high note or to consistently perform at your highest level every day, you have to make every moment count. The following is from Ernest Hemingway's classic book "For Whom The Bell Tolls:" “Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.” I like to modify that to say “But what will happen in all other moments that ever come…
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How to Get More Facetime with Dentists
How to Get More Facetime with Dentists Previous in this series: How to Break Into Medical Device Sales Dentists are tough prospects — they just don’t have the time to meet with sales reps between appointments. Your dentist has a tooth extraction, crown insertion, and cleaning to get done before lunch. He’s booked solid. But if you’re not meeting with dentists, then you’re not selling. As a dental rep, you need to be creative to get in front of your prospects. Each stage of the sales cycle is unique when it comes to dental sales. You have to initiate contact, qualify the lead, and present your offer all…
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4 Ways a Seasoned Sales Hire Can Bring You Success
4 Ways a Seasoned Sales Hire Can Bring You Success Business strategy is, in some ways, similar to chess. Your board (or sales territory) is full of the standard battle-ready pieces: pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, kings, and queens; each of which brings their own unique abilities to the game. A new sales rep is the rook: a relatively strong player because of their range of flexibility but limited in their movements. Similarly, the experienced sales hire would be the pawn. That’s right. A pawn. Our rep is the pawn because he tends to get overlooked in the hiring arena. But, like pawns in chess, sales reps are highly versatile.…
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A Morning Routine That Will Improve Your Sales Productivity
A Morning Routine That Will Improve Your Sales Productivity A Morning Routine Made Just for You What makes successful people — pro athletes, business moguls, political figures — successful? Success is swearing by a morning routine to start the day. It makes you think about your goals and what you want to accomplish and lets you focus on what’s most important. While successful people take pride in their sometimes absurd morning routines, like running in a pool, or eating exactly 3 and a quarter piece of whole wheat bread, a morning routine only needs to be consistent to be successful. If your morning routine helps you feel more productive…
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Why You Should Balance Your Sales Team's Territories
Why You Should Balance Your Sales Team's Territories Sales territories are a cost-effective way for sales managers to strategically divide their sales force by assigning specific customer groups to individual reps based on customer demographics and geography. By allocating different sales territories to individual reps, sales managers are able to maximize the productivity, and promote economies of scales in field sales. Although sales territories are integral in achieving peak efficiency within a company, formulating the correct dimensions for each individual sales territory can be difficult. It is important that you establish manageable and well-balanced territories to ensure effective usage of resources and time. Sales territories are often…
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