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5 ways to build a high-performing sales team for your small business

klyn-elsbury — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:02:00 +0000

In the world of small business, sales teams are the lifeblood of growth and success. A high-performing sales team can drive revenue, create loyal customers, and propel your business to new heights. But not if you’re currently the business owner...

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How small business CEOs improve their sales

Joe Galvin — Tue, 24 Apr 2018 15:20:18 +0000

The tailwinds of a strong economy are propelling growth for 92% of small and midsize businesses (SMB), with 28% realizing multiple-year double-digit growth. Against this backdrop, Vistage Research, in partnership with Salesforce, surveyed and analyzed responses from 1,377 Vistage SMB...

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3 ways to fast-track your sales efforts

Joe Galvin — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 18:00:09 +0000

How did one of the fastest-growing small to midsize businesses (SMBs) in America reach its goals and pave the way for increased growth in the years ahead? It helps to take a look at the SMB landscape, and compare how...

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Your website’s silent sales killer [webinar]

Ben Landers — Sat, 05 Aug 2017 17:00:45 +0000

Watch the webinar “Your Website’s Speed & Security Might Be Sabotaging Your Sales.” Imagine for a moment that you have a brick-and-mortar retail store, and you spend a lot of money on advertising and promotions in order to drive sales....

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Stop talking about sales: Create a revenue strategy

Rick McPartlin — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 17:00:20 +0000

Stop talking about sales, selling, sales people and how they need to get better, learn to close, improve their prospecting and live up to their quotas with a revenue strategy. In many organizations, the sales people are some of the most...

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Are your salespeople ‘tourists’? 3 ways to increase their loyalty

Tom Searcy — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:00:55 +0000

The brand loyalty of tourists is a fragile and fickle thing. A tourist may give repeat business to, say, a hotel that he’s had a good experience with. But if that tourist later has a bad experience with the hotel,...

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Is the Sales Model Broken?

Kevin McArdle — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 16:03:37 +0000

I’ve spent my career showing organizations in crowded markets how to survive—and thrive—without cutting their prices by using the simple, yet powerful technique of value creation. While I was speaking with the Vistage CE Group in Buffalo, New York, this...

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