August, 2014

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How to Get Technical Salespeople to Sell

The Brooks Group

Selling a highly technical product or service requires a certain skill set: one that ties a deep understanding of the features of the offering with the ability to persuade prospects and customers to buy by presenting the benefits of the offering. The challenge? Many technical salespeople tend toward "feature dumping" instead of building value in the mind of the buyer.

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The Death of "Good Ole Boy" Selling

The Brooks Group

Sales professionals in the old days had a much different relationship with their customers. In previous generations, selling was more about whom you knew than what you knew. A strong relationship with customers and a few gifts such as golf tournament tickets, fishing trips and the lowest price simply won't cut it anymore. Today’s salespeople face a much different selling environment and the days of “whiskey and ticket selling” are fast coming to an end.

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How to Get Salespeople to Sell into a New Market

The Brooks Group

In the face of a rapidly shifting marketplace, companies - and sales teams - are having to change focus.fast. Oftentimes, the reason for such a shift involves a "go to" market going away. This often means moving your focus into a new, untapped market. . When considering how to get salespeople to sell into a new market, managers need to stress the potential value of the markets they want to expand into and provide incentives for territory development. .

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The Key to Giving Your Company Culture a Sales Mindset

The Brooks Group

All parts of a business are important. From customer service to marketing to accounting, a company needs to be able to handle responsibilities across several fields in order to succeed. However, for businesses that want to maintain long-term success, the most important area to be strong in is sales. Mark Cuban, billionaire entrepreneur and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks , told Reddit recently that sales are the most important element of small businesses.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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What's the Difference Between Price, Budget and Perceived Value?

The Brooks Group

In many of our sales training programs, attendees will ask us: "What's the Difference Between Price, Budget and Perceived Value?" When it comes to the concept of price in sales, there are actually three principles that guide customer behavior: Price. Budget, and. Perceived value. What's the Difference Between Price, Budget and Perceived Value? The differences between price, budget and perceived value in the minds of your prospects are important to understand if you want to succeed in positioning