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June 12, 2019 Adam Norton

Sales Management Association Webinar: Managing the Agile Sales Force

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Many sales leaders emphasize repeatable, consistent processes as the basis of sales organization productivity. But in so doing, they also may undermine an attribute important to the sales organization’s success: agility. This webcast presents research that suggests a single-methodology emphasis in sales process is counter productive, and offers in its place a management approach that […]

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May 29, 2019 Adam Norton

Ebook: Sales Training Doesn’t Work and Four Other Common Myths About Sellers, Buyers and Coaching

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”3329″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] Myths are widely held but are often false beliefs or ideas. They arise and are hard to shake because they are usually based on perceived common sense and logical or long-held thinking. But, myths are myths: incorrect, untrue, and just plain wrong. You can’t afford to hold onto concepts simply because they […]

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May 29, 2019 Adam Norton

Disruption is Not Always the Answer

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]You know the drill. Sellers need to offer their buyers insights and information they don’t already have.  They need to be provocative and consultative.  Disrupt all the time, and you will win.  But, it’s just not that simple.  And, we have research to prove it. It’s true that salespeople are often viewed by their buyers […]

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May 29, 2019 Adam Norton

Driving Differentiation in Customer Interactions

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Our research often uncovers unexpected things. Beyond everyone finding it wildly interesting and underscoring the need for empirical research in selling and sales, that unanticipated data often informs and inspires our next steps.  Take, for example, the customer who reported that a rep really differentiated his product in a meeting.  She remembered a lot about […]

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May 28, 2019 Adam Norton

Great Dane Selects VantagePoint Performance to Ready their Sales Team for a Digital Future

Innovative Leader in Trailer and Truck Bodies since 1900 Chooses Industry Disruptor to Create an Agile Salesforce VantagePoint Performance, the only research-led agile sales coaching, consulting and training company in the world, announced today that Great Dane selected VantagePoint’s Agile Sales & Coaching Platform after hearing them speak at Dreamforce 2018. With a history dating […]

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May 1, 2019 Adam Norton

The Real Reason Your Sales Reps Aren’t Using Your Training

Imagine you’re training for a marathon and have hired a coach to help you achieve a certain finishing time. He gives you his standard list of exercises to do and distances to run, but you’re not making the right progress. When you ask, he won’t give you any new exercises to try. Would you continue […]

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April 30, 2019 Adam Norton

How to Solve Your Sales Performance Problems

When organizations experience a sales performance problem – and most do –  they look to one of two places for the solution: their sales processes or their sales methodology. The underlying idea is that improving process or methodology to create consistent sales execution will solve the sales performance problem. This has been the common approach […]

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March 8, 2019 Adam Norton

Webinar: Is Your One Size Fits All Methodology Broken? Definitely.

In this webinar, Tim Riesterer of Corporate Visions and Dr. Leff Bonney of VantagePoint discuss why one size fits all is the wrong choice for sales.

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