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Podcast: Business as Unusual

By Monday Morning Manager on Mar 23, 2020 5:45:00 AM

 
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Podcast: Getting Paid in Strokes

By Monday Morning Manager on Mar 16, 2020 6:45:00 AM

 

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Melody and her boss just couldn't understand why she continued to struggle to close business. She was a very outgoing person who was extremely well liked by her customers. She went out of her way to be friendly to everyone and appeared to possess a good knowledge of her product and the selling process. Her failure to excel was confusing to everyone.

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Podcast: Malpractice: Prescription Before Diagnosis

By Monday Morning Manager on Mar 9, 2020 5:45:00 AM

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Hayden was ready for her first call of the day. She had a referral into this prospect's office and had been told they were in need of getting products fast...very fast. In preparation for her meeting she pulled timelines, shipping schedules and production pieces that could impact their products she thought this prospect was interested in.

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Podcast: Selling Yourself First?

By Monday Morning Manager on Mar 2, 2020 5:45:00 AM

 

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Good morning & Greetings, here's this week's selling scenario to think about.

Symptoms:

Justin was spending some time off around the holidays thinking about his 25 years in sales. There were many things to be proud of, but after a bit of soul searching, he was forced to admit that he thought he'd be a bit further along financially by now or perhaps have a more prestigious title or even work for a better company, considering the two and a half decades he was reflecting on. 

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Podcast: Pipelines Need a Timeline

By Monday Morning Manager on Feb 24, 2020 5:45:00 AM

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Good morning & Greetings, here's this week's selling scenario to think about.

Symptoms:
Carlos believes that sales success is simply a game of numbers, and his commitment to relentless

prospecting has proven him right quarter after quarter, year after year. However, all that prospecting creates problems, for Carlos often finds himself so overwhelmed by follow-ups and open opportunities

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Podcast: Calling On Decision Makers

By Monday Morning Manager on Feb 17, 2020 5:45:00 AM

 

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Good morning & Greetings, here's this week's selling scenario to think about.

Symptoms:
When Kathy hired Everett, a former user of her company's products, she thought she had finally found someone who could easily penetrate her market. Everett came from the industry and had been a devoted user of Kathy's products in his role as a product repair specialist. When Everett told Kathy he wanted to make the jump from user to salesperson for her product line, she thought it a great idea and immediately offered him a position. 

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Podcast: How much research should you do?

By Monday Morning Manager on Feb 10, 2020 6:00:00 AM

 

Monday Morning Manager

Good morning & Greetings, here's this week's selling scenario to think about.

Symptoms:
Jason really wanted to impress both his sales manager and his prospect with how prepared he was for the first call of his sales career. He had all his literature organized and had armed himself with all of the background info he researched on the prospect's website. He felt good, except that after reviewing the website data, he really didn't know what 

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Podcast: Procrastinating on bad news

By Monday Morning Manager on Jan 27, 2020 5:45:00 AM

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Symptoms:
One thing was certain: Derek was going to get an earful when he mustered the courage to tell his biggest customer that the truckload of material he was expecting was going to arrive three weeks late. With the last six months seeing all kinds of shipping headaches, the customer told Derek that their patience was wearing thin. They demanded a more reliable delivery schedule and that Derek be more honest and timely communicating with them.

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Podcast: Nurture clients in their best interests

By Monday Morning Manager on Jan 20, 2020 8:02:58 AM

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Good morning & Greetings, here's this week's selling scenario to think about.

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Podcast: Norm Doesn't Prospect

By Monday Morning Manager on Jan 13, 2020 5:30:00 AM

 

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Good morning & Greetings, here's this week's selling scenario to think about.

Symptoms:

Norm hung up the phone and was absolutely ecstatic, jumping up and down while searching the office for someone to high five, all because the sale he'd been chasing for the last six months had just closed. His relief was palpable and once he shared the news with his sales manager that his drought was over, Norm planned on taking the rest of the day off to celebrate the good news.

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