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Ease Up on Sales Button For New Ventures

By James T. Berger October 1, 2007

New ventures would be wise to go slowly with the initial sales effort and carefully manage the “sales learning curve (SLC),” according…

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Sadder But Wiser

By Tim J. Smith, PhD June 1, 2007

We have all learned something the hard way, and those lessons tend to be well learned.  Those of us with little gray…

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The Perils of Hiring Bad Salespeople

By James T. Berger April 1, 2007

Ever thought what it costs a company to hire an inferior sales person? In their new book, “Never Hire a Bad Salesperson…

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Stalking Mr. Schmooze

By James T. Berger January 1, 2007

In the search for the ultimate super-seller, author Richard Abraham offered attendees of a recent University of Chicago Sales Roundtable insight into…

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Leading Today’s Sales Organization

By Tim J. Smith, PhD December 1, 2006

Constant change in today’s business environment has made running the sales organization more demanding than it has ever been. The CSO (Chief…

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Resonate or Be Irrelevant

By Tim J. Smith, PhD October 1, 2006

Effective sales and marketing messages resonate with customers like tuning forks resonate with guitar strings. Each excites the intended party while leaving…

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Why waste time with your Corporate Background?

By Tim J. Smith, PhD March 1, 2006

The time that salespeople spend with prospects is a valuable and precious commodity. Who wants to waste it with a corporate backgrounder?…

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Success through Relationships

By Tim J. Smith, PhD January 1, 2006

Malcolm Gladwell poignantly demonstrates the value of personal relationships throughout The Tipping Point. In one of his stories, he tells of the…

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Differential Pricing Needs More Than Differentiated Functionality

By Tim J. Smith, PhD December 5, 2005

Why does the price of pen vary so much? Functionally, they are all simply writing instruments for applying ink to paper. We…

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Pedantic or Socratic?

By Tim J. Smith, PhD October 5, 2005

Are you pedantic or socratic when you sell? Which should you be? How do you go from one to the other? Or,…

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