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How To: Get Your Sales Team Onboard with SaaS

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Your Sales team is where your company’s efforts meet the world. They’re where the rubber meets the road. Your organizations efforts can live, or die, based on the performance of your Sales team. The happier they are, the more positive they feel, the more confident they are in your offerings, the better they sell. And the better revenue flows.

But what if the apple cart gets upset?

This is a challenge currently facing a lot of companies, particularly in the B2B (business-to-business) space. As SaaS offerings become more common-place, traditional software sales models are being upset.

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The Problem With the Truth

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Truth is a perception. It’s based on what we know at a point in time. Accept that new ideas, new realities, may make it necessary to change how you perceive a given truth.

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Credibility. A Fundamental Trait to Being a Leader

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Credibility, it is a key enabler, a coin to the realm. Find it, keep it, do what you can to never misplace it.

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A Key to Success-The Business Case

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Don’t just go in and ask. Build a business plan that lets you clearly -convince- them it’s a sound decision…that -needs- to be made.

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Making Things Happen

Making Things Happen comes down to: Did you? Or, did you not? Often Failure, and the fear of it, are impediments. Fortunately Fear’s out of the closet right now.

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So, What Do You Need Improvement On?

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It’s a question that we frequently ask ourselves, perhaps professionally, perhaps personally. In answering the question, have you broken the question down enough to be useful, to be precise?

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Why Do IT Projects Slip?

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“Projects progress rapidly until they become 90 percent complete; they then remain 90 percent complete forever.”

I have seen this phenomenon, lived through it, and come to realize it frequently suggests leadership and accountability failure.

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14 WordPress Plugins Worth Considering

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Self-hosting a WordPress blog site, a popular question I receive is, “What WP plugins should I use?” After two years, here are 14 WordPress plugins I recommend.

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Can Leaders Be Taught Virtues?

Is too much emphasis is placed on developing skills, and little or none on Virtue? Can we teach virtues to our Leaders and executives?

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Need Work–Try Running an Ad Campaign

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Need Work? Try running an Ad Campaign. A new tool is available for job seekers: LinkedIn DirectAds. Not a totally new concept…