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4 Tips to Fearlessly Achieve Your Goals

A key individual that the Chiefs would have never won the 2020 Super Bowl without? It’s not Patrick Mahomes! That man is Brett Veach, the General Manager for the Chiefs. He is an excellent case study of effective leadership.

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Consultant vs. Employee vs. Contractor

Each option comes with its obvious pros and cons. I believe the decision of which route to pursue starts with what the person is asked to accomplish and what the environment looks like they will operate in.

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Define Your Ideal Customer -- Or Be Magnetic To No One

It’s obvious that knowing your target customer is a critical part of operating and growing any business. Defining your ideal prospect drives all aspects of sales and marketing, but also provides direction for the entire enterprise, from developing products and services, creating positioning, developing sales enablement programming, and building the organization, from people to tech stack to processes.

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The Value of Reliability

We also value people that ‘just work.' Margot Anderson puts it this way: “We place great importance on people … who are able to deliver consistently good results time after time and who can be depended upon to deliver on commitments and promises. Fundamentally they make life … easier, more enjoyable and more rewarding.”

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Always Trust Your Instruments

Great Sales Leaders understand this. They embrace all available technology, align digital and human interactions, trust their instrument and the process, and use the deliberate human touch to their advantage.

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Social Selling for Fractional Executives: Get Started with Your Pipeline of New Customers

We'll discuss the basics of social selling and how you can get started right away. We'll also talk about some of the benefits of social selling and how it can help you grow your business.

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How to Lead a Sales Team at an Enterprise Software Company

When executives put their hiring criteria together, I would implore them to throw out the regurgitated and stale approach so often used and statistically unsuccessful - wait for it - “the rolodex and product experts.”

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How Do You Lead a Sales Team?

Too many people like to describe themselves as thought leaders. They want to be recognized as an authority in their field, as the one with the original thinking that others follow. But those true original thinkers are a very rare breed.

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Give Your Sales Leader a Seat at the Table

What appears to be an absence of structure, invites everyone to have an opinion. And everyone becomes an expert on how to structure and execute sales, how to pitch to a customer, and to think that the value proposition is really a no-brainer.

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