Why the best salespeople don’t sell products or services
Customers aren’t interested in buying products or services. Their interest in products or services extends only as far as those things can help fulfill these goals:
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Injecting new life into your blog: 3 steps
Blogging is great for business. But a company blog requires lots of fresh content — and that can be hard to come up with. Here are three ways to fill the void.
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4 ways to maintain your edge as markets shift
Times are changing. Prospects now have instant access to competitive pricing and low-ball offers, which means you need to approach every prospect prepared to defend your offer.
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The No. 1 secret to winning buyers in this economy

More than 70% of prospects say they’d be willing to pay as much as 10% more for a product or service if a company …
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20-Minute Sales Meeting: Boosting customer loyalty, repeat business
Satisfied customers are not loyal customers. They shop around. They may like you, but not enough to resist the temptations of competitors. Therefore, the real emphasis must be on building loyalty, not satisfaction.
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Saving customers who’ve become dissatisfied
Dissatisfied customers can be divided into two types:
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Keys to winning more buyers in an online marketplace
In a world where prospects have instant access to online offers, discounts, pricing and customer feedback, these four strategies will help you attract (and win) more buyers:
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The 5 toughest types of prospects — and how to close them all
Selling to these types of prospects isn’t easy. But it can be done by using these five tactics:
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2 reasons prospects may no longer find your offer valuable
If your selling processes haven’t changed and your closing rates have dropped anyway, a well-known sales expert has two theories as to what’s hurting your business.
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Looking to shorten your sales cycles?
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Marketing Data: 50+ Charts & Graphs
HubSpot complied this data from a variety of sources, including analysis of our 2,500 business customers, surveys with hundreds of businesses responding, analysis of the data in our free tools like Website Grader, Twitter Grader and Facebook Grader. Each page has a URL to the original source document or article.
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Overcoming 4 common presentation pitfalls

When the sale is on the line, there are four common pitfalls almost every sales pro has fallen victim to at one time or another.
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Have your salespeople earned the right to sell to the top?
“Sell higher, sell more!” is the message sales managers deliver to salespeople today. The logic is clear — get into senior execs’ offices and the opportunity increases to make larger sales and develop strategic alliances.
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Study reveals who’s using Twitter and why
Here’s clear evidence that if you’re not using Twitter to boost your sales efforts yet, now’s the time to start.
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20-Minute Sales Meeting: After-sales support
Some salespeople do a great job of selling until the prospect buys. Then everything changes. After the prospect takes ownership of the product or service, salespeople become scarce. That’s a problem.
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Ways to maintain an edge that boosts sales & loyalty
Here are four steps sales pros can take to maintain strong relationships with their existing buyers and avoid losing them to aggressive competitors:
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Seal the deal: 4-phase approach gets it done
Research has shown customers tend to go through four distinct phases when making a purchasing decision. And only three occur before the purchase.
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E-signatures deliver secure document signing with faster turnaround times
The need to shorten sales cycles often runs headlong into the requirement to safeguard valuable transactions and data. eSignatures combine secure signing, workflow automation, and archive functions into a package so you can execute legally binding agreements online. Read this paper from Forrester to find out more. Sponsored by EchoSign.
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Close more deals with less effort!
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5 presentation skills that compel prospects to buy NOW!
The difference between a good presentation and a great one is whether it creates the type of urgency that compels a prospect to buy now.
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