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Barbara Weaver Smith

Sales 3.0 – The Future of Sales

I enjoyed a conversation with Sangram Vajre, host of the #FlipMyFunnel Podcast, about Sales 3.0 and the future of sales.  Sangram founded Terminus, a successful

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Barbara Weaver Smith

Selling Upmarket: Classic Books for Large Account Sales

Whale Hunting debuted as a business development model for small and midsize B2B companies in 2006. I co-authored the definitive guide in 2008 with Whale

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Membrain.com Sales Enablement Software
Barbara Weaver Smith

The Whale Hunters Add Sales Enablement CRM Solution

I am extremely pleased and very proud to announce The Whale Hunters new partnership with Membrain, the company behind  a complete Sales Enablement CRM that can...

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Barbara Weaver Smith

Name It-Claim It Video

Does your big customer want to see your process–but you don’t actually have one yet?

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Very small businesses can land large accounts.
Barbara Weaver Smith

Very Small Businesses Can Land Large Accounts, Too!

As you may know, Whale Hunting is based on two concepts: (1) the best, safest way to grow a B2B company is to consistently land

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Sales 2.0 and Large Account Sales
Barbara Weaver Smith

Did Sales 2.0 Disrupt Large Account Sales?

In my article on the major disruptions in large account selling in the last decade, I identified disruptions of the selling systems and disruptions of

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Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Sales and Transform Your Company
Barbara Weaver Smith

Ten Years of Whale Hunting for Large Accounts

Ten years ago, in January 2008, Wiley published Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Sales and Transform Your Company, the book about large account sales

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Barbara Weaver Smith

When large account selling is like whale hunting—and when it is not!

This article summarizes the philosophy and key tenets of the whale hunting metaphor for large account selling. It distinguishes how Whale Hunting differs from other

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Barbara Weaver Smith

The Earn-It Trap

Let me ask you this: have you ever felt that in order to get in the door at a big company you should offer to

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Small businessman needs confidence.
Barbara Weaver Smith

How To Approach a Big Company Executive with Confidence

  As an executive or salesperson representing a small company,  learn to approach big company executives with confidence. These are people whom you don’t know,

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Business Process
Barbara Weaver Smith

Name It and Claim It: 4 Steps to Develop a Business Process for Proposals

Almost every RFP asks you to define or explain your business process for something or other.  Here are a few of the recent ones that

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Barbara Weaver Smith

Talking About Whale Hunting with John Golden of Sales Pop

Hunting for those big customers and big deals requires a skill set all to itself, with a coordinated, trained team–much like the Inuit people in

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