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Stop Shooting in the Dark: Use Data to Drive Your Sales Enablement

It’s time to dispel a myth – and give you a little kick in the pants while I’m at it. The myth is this: As a small business, you don’t have

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
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How to Use Your Mobile Devices to Give Effective Sales Presentations

It’s a magical time for salespeople. Mobile devices allow you to present from anywhere – cord-free. (Cue the angels singing.) Mobile devices and mobile apps support selling in so many ways. [https://blog.

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
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The Missing Link Between Sales Enablement and the Sale

Are You Placing Your Sales Reps on a Two-Legged Stool? What?! Bear with me... We like the Brainshark definition of sales enablement as “A systematic approach to increasing sales productivity, by supporting reps

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
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10 Ways to Make More Sales With Your Mobile Device

Mobile devices have revolutionized everything from making a phone call to finding a date. It’s no surprise that they have revolutionized sales, too. Top sales organizations know that mobile sales apps are

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
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5 Steps to Avoid “Death by Powerpoint” and Make Your Sales Meetings More Profitable

Buyers are skeptical of sales meetings today. And there’s a good reason for it. Sales reps often waste their time with irrelevant, rambling Powerpoint presentations. Think about the last time you met

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
5 min read
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Give your sales team superpower tools for sales enablement!

Everyone has seen the huge influx in new cloud-based tools designed to help sales teams with every known aspect of their day. Choice is good. The right tools used well free sales teams

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
2 min read
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I never update my apps... and other tales.

I know, I know! Updating your device’s operating system and apps is like eating vegetables, drinking eight glasses of water and showering regularly: mostly feels like a hassle, but good for you

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
1 min read
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Zoom Video Conferencing

There's the odd time when business tools are so good you feel like you have to share them with others. Products that are not just ok, but seriously good and you

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
2 min read
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5 ways the Apple Watch improves the life of a salesperson

Somewhat predictably, there’s been a rush on beat-up commentary in the media over on the various failings of the Apple Watch. Generally they’re variations on these favorites: * It’s just an

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
2 min read
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How Mitsubishi Motors improved customer experience by 91%.

As a modern marketing manager at an auto brand, you have an unprecedented challenge. By the time your customer steps foot in your dealerships, she may know as much as your sales team

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
4 min read
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Presenting from a tablet 101: How to not look like an amateur

For the past three years I’ve been using my tablet as my primary presentation device in sales meetings. The people I'm meeting with usually bring their tablets too and over

  • Millie Blackwell
    Millie Blackwell
2 min read
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