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LinkedIn - You as Your Brand

Posted by Trish Bertuzzi on Wed, Apr 23, 2008

Since I started the LinkedIn Inside Sales Experts Group (request to join here) a little over a month ago, the membership approval process has afforded me the opportunity to review more than 240 LinkedIn profiles.  Most, I would say 90%, of the members are sales people but I have to tell you that I would never know that from looking at their profiles!

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Topics: linkedin, target marketing, branding

Sales Tips: Tales from a Gatekeeper

Posted by Trish Bertuzzi on Wed, Apr 09, 2008

I love to read blogs that make me laugh and I read a post on The Sales Wars that was interesting and funny.  It was written by Michelle Doucette who is a gatekeeper for a software company in the Boston area.  Take a peek here and find an excerpt below:

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Topics: sales process, sales tips, cold calling, sales tools

Sales Tip: Ask Great Sales Questions

Posted by Trish Bertuzzi on Wed, Apr 02, 2008

Does your team ask great questions?  Every salesperson thinks they ask great questions, but do you really? 

The shortest distance between winning a deal and having it slip from month to month is a direct one.  In fact, it's these direct questions that encourage prospects to share information, establish a personal relationship with us, and increase our chance of selling our solution.  

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Topics: sales process, sales tips, lead qualification

4 Tips for Cold Calling

Posted by Debbie Boucher on Fri, Mar 28, 2008

One evening when I was reading a bedtime story to my 7 year old son, he exclaimed, "Mommy, please slow down, you're talking too fast!" His remark took me by surprise; I had no idea I was reading so fast.  This one statement made me realize that in my desire to share a story, I had lost my target audience. 
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Topics: cold calling, sales tools, inside sales tips

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