February, 2014

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Why Being The Highest Priced Provider Is Actually A Good Thing

The Brooks Group

“You must determine your competitive advantage and use it to differentiate your product or you will be seen as selling a commodity.”. Using Your Higher Price To Your Advantage. You must or should sell your product or service on the basis of some competitive advantage. While there are really 5 ways to do this, we'll focus on high price for the time-being.

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10 Things That Will Drive Your Sales Culture

The Brooks Group

How To Build A Self Sustaining Sales Culture. Every group of people, no matter what profession they're in, takes on its own unique philosophy, culture, expectations, norms and values. This is the fundamental power of small group dynamics. And a wonderful power if it is properly focused. The problem? This culture will be formed with or without sales management's active participation!

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3 Ways Price-Buyers Steal Your Salespeople's Time

The Brooks Group

One of the single biggest challenges our clients share with us are those associated with selling against lower-priced competition. Your team may tell you, "everybody buys on price," and "I had to cut our price to get the deal." Well. the truth is you can't afford to have them deal with price-buyers AT ALL! Here's why. Pure Price-Buyers Take All Your Sales Time If you’re an experienced salesperson reflect back on your selling experience and ask yourself this question: Where have I spent most of

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The Dead Deal Autopsy: 19 Questions To Ask When Conducting A Lost Deal Analysis

The Brooks Group

The Anatomy Of A Lost Deal Analysis. Your salesperson gets word from a prospect that they bought from your competitor. It happens. You can just get P.O.’d or you can reach out to the buyer to determine what went wrong to perform a lost deal analysis with your salesperson. Maybe you do both. I’m going to recommend you don’t do both at the same time, though.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Selling At The C-Level: 3 Ways To Avoid Getting Thrown Out

The Brooks Group

As the decision-making landscape continues to shift, the ability to enter an account as high as possible and operate comfortably when selling at the C-level is becoming more and more important. Many buying decisions that were once made at the user and implementation levels are now owned by decision-makers at the top of the corporate food chain. Consequently, the ability to sell comfortably at the c-level and v-level will increasingly separate price-cutting order-takers from high-margin value-br

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17 1/2 Things That Might Be Destroying Your Sales Team [Infographic]

The Brooks Group

Determining what's holding your sales organization back can be confusing. Use this infographic to help you make a little more sense out of what may - or may not be - hindering your team's efforts. The first step in improving your sales team's performance is determining where you are today. The Brooks Group's Discover phase takes a deep dive into your sales team's day to day reality, uncovering the strengths, challenge areas, and current performance levels of your team members. .

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