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		<title>Using the “vertical” Sales scoreboard horizontally – a suite of “league tables”, to define and articulate best practices</title>
		<link>http://salessystem.com.au/2012/04/23/using-the-%e2%80%9cvertical%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the last in this mini-series of monthly blogs in which I will write about the virtues of applying elite level sporting measurement (AFL, NRL) to the B2B business setting.  I used the term “vertical Sales scoreboard” to describe what each member of the team should be equipped with that represents  an integrated set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using the Sales scoreboard – both vertically and horizontally, to define and articulate best practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month I wrote about the virtues of applying elite level sporting measurement (AFL, NRL) to the B2B business setting.  I want to extend  the theme this month and enrich the point I made regarding the value of rigourous, objective and scientific measurement for the sales organisation.  And keep some link to my elite level [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales scoreboard development – applying elite sports measurement to corporate B2B sales performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Footy season is upon us! How is your football/rugby team going to fare this season? I am a hapless AFL Richmond supporter, so many weekends I cannot bear to turn to the sports pages to read the obituary. When the Tigers do crack it for a win (even a draw is cause for celebration for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Team Optimisation Versus Sales Exec Effectiveness  &#8211; What Is The Difference And Why Is It Important?</title>
		<link>http://salessystem.com.au/2012/01/30/sto-vs-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://salessystem.com.au/?p=1090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just two different and complicated ways of saying the same thing?  More obfuscation created by consultants to assist Heads of Sales de-clutter what did not need to be cluttered in the first place? Well, not really.  A rich understanding and appreciation of these business imperatives turns out to be one of those chicken and egg [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crafting the right face to face selling methodology for your organisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spin Selling&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Solution selling&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.Conceptual selling&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.New conceptual selling&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;Professional selling skills&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.the list goes on and on.  The Sales sections of bookstores are loaded with them.  Since the mid 1980’s, professional selling started to garner enough respect to be studied and written about.  The Huthwaite group were possibly the early pioneers, and they observed and captured data to analyse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales territory structuring – driving for maximum efficiency and visit productivity</title>
		<link>http://salessystem.com.au/2011/11/13/sales-territory-structuring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Previous monthly discourses have touched on the critical importance of visit activity rate benchmarks as part of the solution to the problem of sales team productivity and RoI.  This month’s topic will return, albeit from a different perspective.   We have already seen that the true cost of a Sales Exec visit when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headcount cost; visit activity rates; levels of customer coverage; degrees of prospect penetration – the key levers for modelling and controlling Sales Team productivity and RoI</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever pondered how much your company invests to pay, incentivate and fully equip the sales force to deliver the revenue budget they are set?  Ever wondered what impact reducing the investment by 10% would have on the ability to deliver the revenue budget?  What if the revenue budget was increased by 10%&#8230;.what increase if any, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A glossary for lovers of sales science</title>
		<link>http://salessystem.com.au/2011/09/12/glossary-of-sales-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a disciple of the church of sales science&#8230;&#8230;..and a sales consultant all in one&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;I have to confess that I am as guilty as that other one over there for using jargon when communicating on my topic of great passion&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. sales team productivity and return on investment (see&#8230;&#8230;.I told you so!).  I would like to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tailoring your sales pipeline for superior prospecting (hunting)</title>
		<link>http://salessystem.com.au/2011/08/17/tailoring-your-sales-pipeline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 23:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It costs seven times the blood, sweat, tears and dollars to win a brand new client than it does to maintain an existing client.  Heard that one before?  A million times, I bet.  This old adage has become so oft trotted out that most of us no longer even know where or who started it.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elevating your Sales Exec &#8211; Customer relationships from a simple “sales and service” platform to a value-adding business partnership – the heart and soul of superior account management (farming)</title>
		<link>http://salessystem.com.au/2011/07/18/elevating-your-sales-exec/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:53:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://salessystem.com.au/?p=694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask just about any Head of Sales in B2B corporate Australia about the nature of the relationship between the Sales Execs and their respective customers and you will hear rhetoric about business partnerships and the training, leadership and expenditure deployed to move beyond transactionally based sales relationships.
Too often, though, once the first layer or two [...]]]></description>
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