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The Challenge of Selling Expertise (Not Product)

Strategic Account Management Association

When we talk about expertise, you could label it as knowledge-intensive business services or expertise-based services that don’t show up in a product catalog. These services are not documented like products, technologies or platforms that have solution sets customers can find online and have at their disposal.

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Social Selling Applicability by Industry

SBI Growth

Buyers can make a purchase decision with little help from a sales rep. This makes these industries highly susceptible to social selling transformation. The onus will be on the companies to act decisively and quickly. Sales teams in this cluster that succeed will be those that make bold bets to reshape themselves.

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Power, Politics, and Benchmarking Influence Strategy in 2013

SBI Growth

In Business Services companies, Operations executives usually have more power than Sales executives. This is especially true in Business Services companies and other more mature business models. Robert’s story rings true to many sales leaders in Business Services industries. Do the VPs call him up?

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What You Need to Know About Insourcing

Planview

. “…The decision as to whether to outsource or to provide services in-house has to be based on criteria that reflects what is important to the organisation and not on the preferences of the CIO.”. So: business decisions need to be based on just that — the business. Decisions, Decisions.

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Your Customers Are Telling You to Reconsider Inside Sales

SBI Growth

From software to business services, the message is clear: re-evaluate your Sales Force Structure by piloting, expanding, or reconsidering your commitment to Inside Sales. Why aren’t you making it easy for them? Work with your team (or engage outside experts) to develop insightful questions about how they make buying decisions.

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How to Get Your Startup Up and Running with a Business Incubator

Hubspot Sales

Over the last decade, founders and startups have turned to business incubators and accelerators to scale their business. The concept makes a lot of sense for entrepreneurs or early stage founding teams that want to leverage a defined process for success and transition to a sustainable enterprise.

Investors 101
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The Complete Guide to Sales Contracts: 6 Templates to Shorten Your Sales Cycle

Hubspot Sales

Contract management software makes it dramatically more accessible, for example, to consistently create high-quality contracts with the use of pre-built templates, ready to use content libraries, drag-and-drop electronic signature and payment blocks, approval workflows, and more. General Business Services Contract.

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