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Essential Ideas for Enterprise Software Sales Professionals

October 2006

In This Issue
Knowing Your Buyers’ Key Questions is Key to Great Sales
A New Definition for Selling
You Vote: Would you be happier starting your own company?
How to Differentiate Yourself in a Flat Market
Book Review: Heavy Hitter Selling – Steve Martin
Hot Candidates
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Knowing Your Buyers’ Key Questions is Key to Great Sales
By Michael Cannon, Founder and CEO, Silver Bullet Group, Inc.
Most sales and marketing executives and their teams don’t know their buyers’ key buying questions. That’s why survey data indicate that Sales considers over 50% of the collateral created by Marketing to be useless. And that is why most marketing and sales people are consistently unable to articulate their value proposition. The key to creating great sales messaging is knowing your buyers’ primary buying questions for each of the products and services you offer.
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A New Definition for Selling
By Tony Horwath, President and Founder, Sales Focus, Inc.
No matter how long or what type of sales experience you have acquired over the years, your definition of selling determines how successful you are now as how successful you will be going forward. If your basic definition of selling is off base, your entire sales process and ultimately your long-term success will be affected. If you want to change your success in selling, you may need to truthfully examine what you are doing and not be focused on what your company isn’t doing.
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Do you believe you would be happier starting your own company than building a 'corporate career'?


No. Based on what I know, starting a company is too hard and/or too risky and not for me.
Yes. Based on what I know, I think I'd be happier starting my own company.







How to Differentiate Yourself in a Flat Market
By Sharon Drew Morgen, Founder, Morgen Facilitations, Inc.
The interesting and frustrating fact in a selling market is that your product will not differentiate you. And buyers do not buy your product, no matter how perfect it is. Buyers buy only when they are ready to solve a (business) problem. While buying a specific piece of software might be their best solution, they won’t make the actual purchase until they understand and resolve their buying criteria and manage the internal change that the purchase itself will stimulate. Learn how to differentiate yourself in a flat market.
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 Book Review
Heavy Hitter Selling: How Successful Salespeople Use Language and Intuition to Persuade Customers to Buy – Steve Martin
By Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
Like other marketing and sales books published recently, this one stresses the importance of human behavior. But unlike the others, it puts an emphasis on language. It goes into detail about the layers of communication like phonetics and content, and the way the mind uses and interprets language.
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Enterprise Sales Manager
Irvine, CA
Computer Solutions & Software International
Account Manager
Coconut Creek, FL
Google
Inside Sales Representative
CA/NY
Dassault Systemes
VPLM Sales
Detroit, MI
Fieldglass, Inc.
National Sales Representative
Chicago, IL
Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc.
Sales Manager – Inside Sales
Las Vegas, NV
Hyland Software
Manufacturing Industry Specialist
Westlake, OH
ILOG, Inc.
Field Sales Representative
Arlington, VA
Infra Corporation
Account Manager
ON
Taleo Corporation
Services Sales Manager
CA/TX
Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc.
EOM SMB Software Sales Representative
Atlanta, GA
Panda Software
Corporate Sales Representative
Los Angeles, CA
Reflexis Systems, Inc.
Enterprise Sales Executive
Boston, MA
Panda Software
Inside Sales Representative
Los Angeles, CA
Sentori
Sales Manager
Dallas, TX
SIRE Technologies, Inc.
Enterprise Software Sales Executive
Salt Lake City, UT
SkillSoft
Regional Account Executive – Higher Education
IL
Swiftpony Enterprises
Product Sales and Support
TX
Tenrox
Enterprise Account Executive
Pasadena, CA
TotalChart, Inc.
Account Executive
Boston, MA
Veramark Technologies, Inc.
Vice President – Sales
Rochester, NY
Accruent, Inc.
Sales Development Rep. – Enterprise Software
Santa Monica, CA
FileNet Corporation
Key Account Executive
Boston, MA
Compuware Corporation
IT Governance Sales Representative
Long Beach/Irvine, CA
MKS Inc.
Regional Sales Manager
Nashville, TN
Gelco Information Network, Inc.
Account Executive
Minneapolis, MN
Courion Corporation
Regional Sales Manager
San Francisco, CA
Logical Apps
Customer Experience Manager
Midwest, USA
Compuware Corporation
Regional Director - Products
Long Beach/Irvine, CA
MQSoftware, Inc.
Account Executive
IL
Mobius Management Systems, Inc.
Sales­ Exec - Financial Services Sr. Accnt. Mgr.
San Francisco, CA
Pyramid Solutions, Inc.
Senior Account Executive
Bingham Farms, MI
MQSoftware, Inc.
Account Executive
NC
Software AG
Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)
Denver, CO
UGS Corp.
Business Development Manager
Maryland Heights, MO
Trendium, Inc.
Sales Account Executive
Denver, CO
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