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Essential Ideas for Enterprise Software Sales Professionals

August 2005

In This Issue
Forecasting: Why Bad Things Happen to Good Sales People
Selling Against the Competition
You Vote: Which one of the following would help you close more business?
Agent Programs in the Technology Industry
Hot Candidates
New Jobs at SoftwareSalesJobs


Who's Hiring Software Sales People?
You'll have to visit www.SoftwareSalesJobs.com and create a profile to find out more, but here are only a few of the companies seeking software sales, pre-sales, and sales management professionals across North America on SoftwareSalesJobs:



Forecasting: Why Bad Things Happen to Good Sales People
By Philippe Lavie, President, KeyRoad Enterprises
Picture this: It’s the last week of the month and suddenly the sunshine, smiles, and optimism disappear as time comes to justify what transpired. Revenue was missed by 20% to 40%, less than 50% of the sales reps met their quotas, and the expenses and inventory increased significantly based on the original forecast. Does this sound familiar? If you have been in such a situation, and if you were the VP sales, how did that make you feel?
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Selling Against the Competition
By Dr. Tony Alessandra, Author and Keynote Speaker
Companies who don't understand their competitive advantage say things like "Our product is better quality" or "Our service is better." Even if a company has better quality or better service, it won't convince its customers just by saying so, because many of its competitors will be saying the exact same thing! You have to define quality or show how your service differs from the competition.
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Which one of the following would help you close more business?


Additional sales training/techniques
More warm leads/networking
Better company/product marketing collateral
Increased market knowledge




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Agent Programs in the Technology Industry
By Rick Vieth and Jeff Poole, Senior Consultants, Amazon Consulting, LLC
Virtually all companies in the high tech industry incorporate partner programs as vital components of their go-to-market strategy. Mainly, partnerships are designed to complete their service and product portfolios or to expand their sales reach. Channel, hardware, software, and service partners are common examples of such partnerships, but there's another type that can be one of the most effective and economical partnering strategies companies can employ: the agent partner.
Read full article >>


Hot Candidates
 
Looking to hire Software Sales people? Meet some of the premier field sales, pre-sales, and sales management professionals in the sector. Read profiles and contact registered SoftwareSalesJobs members that are waiting to hear more about your company!
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New Jobs at SoftwareSalesJobs

The following is a sample of jobs available at www.SoftwareSalesJobs.com

To view more NEW jobs, click here.

To search all jobs, click here.
Computer Associates International
Sales Executive, Mainframe
Independence, OH
Computhink
Regional Sales Manager
Los Angeles, CA
Computer Associates International
Sales Executive
Herndon, VA
Compuware Corporation
Regional Account Manager
Minneapolis, MN
Ardence
Sales Representative
Waltham , MA
Bentley Systems
Inside Sales Representative
Watertown, CT
Blackbaud
Pre-Sales Solutions Engineer
Charleston, SC
GT Software, Inc.
District Sales Manager
Phoenix, AZ
ILOG, Inc.
Technical Sales Engineer
Boston, MA
iLumin
Inside Sales Representative
Reston, VA
Infra Corporation
Account Manager - New Business
Boston, MA
Levi, Ray and Shoup Inc.
Sales Representative
Atlanta, GA
Marathon Technologies
Inside Sales Representative
Littleton, MA
Metafuse, Inc
Senior Account Manager
Irvine, CA
Mobius Management Systems, Inc.
Account Manager
Minneapolis, MN
Optinuity, Inc
Regional Sales Manager
Boston, MA
Oracle Corporation
Regional Manager- Inside Sales
Bloomington, MN
Passlogix
Sales Engineer
Phoenix, AZ
PerformanceIT, Inc.
Enterprise Account Executive
Atlanta, GA
Plethora Technology
Sales Representative
Washington, DC
Revelwood Inc.
Regional Sales Manager- Midwest
Chicago, IL
Serena Software
Enterprise Sales Representative
Bay Area, CA
Sybase
Territory Account Representative
Rockaway, NJ
Trendium
Sales Account Executive
Denver, CO
Westbrook Technologies, Inc
West Coast Sales Managers
Branford, CT
The above is a sample of jobs available at www.SoftwareSalesJobs.com

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