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Sales isn’t about pushing products or being efficient; it’s about building the right systems to manage and empower your salespeople.
If you read nothing else on sales, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review; articles and selected the most important ones to help you understand how to create the conditions for sales success.
This book will inspire you to:
Understand your customer’s buying centerIntegrate your sales and marketing operationsAssess your business cycle and its impact on your sales forceTransition away from solution salesLeverage the power of micromarketsIntroduce tiebreaker selling and consensus sellingMotivate your sales force properly
This collection of articles includes: “Major Sales: Who Really Does the Buying,” by Thomas V. Bonoma; “Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing,” by Philip Kotler, Neil Rackham, and Suj Krishnaswamy; “Match Your Sales Force Structure to Your Business Life Cycle,” by Andris A. Zoltners, Prabhakant Sinha, and Sally E. Lorimer; “The End of Solution Sales,” by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman; “Selling into Micromarkets,” by Manish Goyal, Maryanne Q. Hancock, and Homayoun Hatami; “Dismantling the Sales Machine,” by Brent Adamson, Matthew Dixon, and Nicholas Toman; “Tiebreaker Selling,” by James C. Anderson, James A. Narus, and Marc Wouters; “Making the Consensus Sale,” by Karl Schmidt, Brent Adamson, and Anna Bird; “The Right Way to Use Compensation,” by Mark Roberge; “How to Really Motivate Salespeople,” by Doug J. Chung; and “Getting Beyond ‘Show Me the Money,'” an interview with Andris Zoltners by Daniel McGinn.
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Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date : May 23, 2017
Language : English
Print length : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 1633693279
ISBN-13 : 978-1633693272
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.5 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #360,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #719 in Systems & Planning #1,743 in Leadership & Motivation #2,556 in Business Management (Books)
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