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Barbara Weaver Smith

Story of The Whale Hunters

  Whale hunting is not about killing. What a bad analogy that would be! It’s actually about serving. Honoring the whale. Celebrating the whale.  Doing

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The Buyer's Mind with Jeff Shore Cover
Barbara Weaver Smith

Practical Ways for Sales Professionals to Address Buyer Fears

Fears, we all have them but as a sales professional, how do you overcome this fundamental emotion? Join us as we uncover practical ways for

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Sales Reinvented Podcast
Barbara Weaver Smith

Selling Outcomes with Paul Watts of Sales Reinvented Podcast

Today B2B sales is much more professional, technology has played a major part in many of the changes we have seen. Remember that you are

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Jen Blount, Sales EQ
Barbara Weaver Smith

Jeb Blount Says Sales EQ a Must To Win Large Account Sales

Better than most whale hunters, my friend Jeb Blount has mastered the art of winning complex large account sales and teaching sales teams how to do

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Barbara Weaver Smith

How to Master a Sales Process for Longer Sales Cycles

Selling Power TV
Gerhard Gschwandtner

Filmed at Sales 2.0 Conference in San Francisco 2016

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Selling-Power-TV-Interview
Barbara Weaver Smith

Why Salespeople Need to Know More about Their Global Customers

Selling Power TV
Gerhard Gschwandtner

Filmed at Sales 2.0 Conference in San Francisco 2016

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Game Changer Network Podcast Cover
Barbara Weaver Smith

Four Critical Sales Strategies to Win Global Customers

This on demand audio is a part of the The Game Changer Network Series. Chicke Fitzgerald interviews Barbara Weaver Smith. The original live interview was…...

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shallows
Barbara Weaver Smith

Alarming Feedback from Global Account Buyers

“What global account buyers are saying is: we are tired of sellers who are shallow. Who are focused on their products and solutions and what…...

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Barbara Weaver Smith

Know More to Sell Better

Thanks to Connie Kadansky, the Sales Call Reluctance Coach, for a great interview on Blog Talk Radio about how to know more to sell more…....

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Lisa Magnuson
Barbara Weaver Smith

Review of Whale Hunting with Global Accounts

Lisa Magnuson, Corporate Sales Strategist and founder of Top Line Sales, is one of the fourteen sales experts who contributed to my newest book, Whale Hunting…...

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Whale Hunting with Global Accounts
Barbara Weaver Smith

Are You Leaving Millions in Your Global Accounts Bucket?

If you’ve been a whale hunter for awhile, chances are you have a few global accounts– big customers who do business all over the world. Almost…...

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Sales Development Playbook
Barbara Weaver Smith

Buy the Sales Development Playbook

Trish Bertuzzi, my good friend who heads up The Bridge Group, has written an exceptionally detailed playbook for sales development, that part of the sales

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Whale Hunting Practice #20: Train Your Subject Matter Experts

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How Focus Builds Your Brand

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Whale Hunting Practice #29: Practice the Trust Cycle

The transition from making the sale to delivering the service is a major opportunity for things to go wrong.  On the whale’s side, there is ...

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Are sales professionals trying to sell out of fear instead of quality? It seems they sell to “stay alive” just because they want to keep ...

Whale Hunting Practice #14: Progressive Discovery

Most small and midsize company sales representatives lead with their story of benefits and advantages, even in conversations with a whale. Contrarily, The Whale Hunters ...
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Seeing Through the Fog

This tip describes an activity to help you "know what you don't know" or what you THINK you know about a current whale customer.