Sales & Service

Building MPS Sales Reps

As the title of this article implies, the best Managed Print Service (MPS) reps are built not found.  As MPS gains more exposure, acclaim and momentum, more dealerships are looking to jump on the
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Between the Lines: Mind Your Client’s Business

There may have been a time when a salesperson simply needed to know the product in order to succeed. That time is no more. Today’s sales professional must understand their prospective client’s
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Sales Pitch: Are You Prepared for Change?

Many companies struggle to be efficient and effective in implementing new strategies, approaches, and initiatives. Companies faced with increasing customer requirements, multi-product and vendor
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Sales Pitch: From Cold to Close

Why do you need to change?  Because sales leaders that are field facing and front line sales professionals in the trenches know that using past approaches – approaches that may have been
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Staubitz on Service: Identity Crisis – Can You Identify the Attributes of a Great Service Technician?

A few days ago my wife came to me asking for suggestions to improve her organization’s success rate in hiring qualified candidates for her emergency physicians group.  I have to admit I am a
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Sales Pitch: Master the Art of Office Politics – Hard Work and Talent Aren’t Always Enough

Before joining Strategy Development I worked for two big companies. During my tenure with the first, I was young, naïve and clueless about the fact that politics were even a part of the fabric in
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How to Get the Best Performance on the Service Side

Measuring and driving performance is something that I see in sales departments but not in most service departments. However, I can tell you that the most profitable and successful dealers track
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Sales Pitch: The Trouble with Sales Metrics and Why Sales Managers are Part of the Problem

One of the initial questions I field with every newly retained client engagement is which CRM we at Strategy Development recommend?  Typically they are asking this question due to the fact that
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