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Research confirms that high performing sales reps have the ability to adapt to the selling environment and the customer’s world. Research also shows that this competency can be learned and improved through training.
Research confirms another difference between top salespeople and average ones. Top performers are better listeners than talkers; better at probing and asking good questions than telling and presenting, and consistently understand the key driver’s of their customers’ business.
Salespeople are assigned a territory. But, are territories organized by geography, product, customer, industry or some combination? How do salespeople efficiently manage their territory? How do sales managers allocate territories fairly and efficiently? The answers are a major determinate of the success of a sales organization.
Nothing about sales is changing as fast as the profession’s use of technology. Salespeople and their managers must know more about their customers, their competitors, their products or they lose credibility and are at a competitive disadvantage. Salespeople must use technology to be more efficient and effective every day – every hour.
