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Board Game Distributor Gets On Board to Build Stronger Client Relationships

  • March 25th, 2021
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  Board Games Distributor gets on Board to build Stronger Client Relationships   Organization: An Ontario-based Board Games’ Distributor with 10 sales reps. Business Issue: In the past, business boomed focused around the success of a specific line of product for this board games’ distributor.  Most of a rep’s time was consumed by order taking activities.  It wasn’t necessary to take time […]

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Key Selling Tips From the Winner of 21 Sales Achievement Awards

  • January 26th, 2021
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                Key selling tips from a winner of 21 sales achievement awards   In the late 1990’s I joined a training development organization in an account executive role. Products and services offered included corporate training such as leadership development.  Shortly after joining the company, a mentoring program for new account executives became available, and […]

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The power of Referrals for business development is timeless

  • January 25th, 2021
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The power of referrals for business development is timeless A number of years ago, my father (Garth Webb, a D Day World War II veteran) decided Canada needed a place to learn how Canadians contributed in World War II. He started selling bricks to WAR vets to contribute to a building now called the Juno […]

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Strengthening Client Relationships In a Pandemic

  • May 6th, 2020
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We are witnessing and living through a historic time.  The pandemic is a health and business crisis. Things have changed. We are being assured that our circumstances are temporary and that business will indeed resume again – however we don’t have a precise timeline. For those of you in a B to B sales role, […]

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Why prepare for a meeting?

  • September 17th, 2019
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Why is pre call preparation so important? We plan our weddings, vacations and retirement, yet we don’t plan for a sales conversation! Often our livelihood depends on these conversations! I believe the most successful salespeople plan on a regular basis. Those most successful at selling are also humble. They always feel they could learn more […]

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Why Organizations Don’t Do Enough Sales Coaching?

  • June 12th, 2019
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We know that when sales coaching is done well it brings improved sales metrics. One of the key factors to a dynamic sales coaching process is to have your sales reps coached on a regular basis. It is recommended that each rep have one to two hours of sales coaching per week. Yet the 4th […]

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