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Top 50 best sales articles

13 February 2008 One Comment

Part of my resolutions for this year was to compile all of my favorite articles on selling and business and share them with you. I have put together a super list of links that should be more than enough to go through until can put together my top 100 sales posts.

I am always on the look out for new sites that I can use and share with my readers. If you manage a sales or business related blog or know of a good one, send me the link.

I have tried to break them down into categories.

Office culture

  1. Tuesday Most Productive Day of the Week, Execs Say - HR world
  2. Why Proximity Kills Productivity - LifeClever
  3. 28 toy stores for cube dwellers - Webware.com
  4. Office Culture: Cover Your Butt At Work with Thorough Notes - Lifehacker
  5. Distraction: Laptops in Meetings a Double-Edged Sword - New York Times
  6. Office Culture: Can You Make Work Fun? - Dave Cheong
  7. Work: 7 ways to cope with job burnout - Web Worker Daily
  8. The hidden causes of worker burnout - Blogher.com
  9. Convince Your Boss to Let you Work from Home - Productivity501

General Sales Tips

  1. Six Sigma Training - Don’t Leave the House Without Your Black Belt - Free Business and Management Articles
  2. Beware the Urban Sales Myth: the Big Rolodex - The Straight Line
  3. Automate Your Online Business - Entrepreneur.com

  4. 6 Ways to Appear Smarter - Productivity501

  5. Attitude is Not Everything - I will change your life . com
  6. Attack Yourself- Go After Your Own Best Sales Preformance - EyesOnSales
  7. How Do You Make Decisions? - EyesOnSales
  8. How to Get Your Boss’s Job (And Get Your Boss To Help) - EyesOnSales
  9. How to get a job you’re not qualified for - Penelope Trunk
  10. Five workplace practices that should be over. Now. - Brazen Careerist
  11. Permission Marketing - Seth’s Blog
  12. Be Your Best Rainmaker - Selling to Big Companies Blog
  13. Handling Tough Questions - Salesopedia
  14. Engaging Conversation Question - The Queen of Cold Calling
  15. Disarm sales resistance early - SalesResources.com
  16. Buying Sales Leads and Prospect Lists? - Sales 2.0
  17. Selling Is Not Difficult - It Just Seems That Way! - Sales 2.0
  18. The Causes of a Messy Desk - Productivity501
  19. Paper Control! 8 Questions to Ask Before You Throw any Paper Away - Productive & Organized
  20. What Buyers Really Want from Salespeople -Dig It !
  21. Know Who Your Client Knows - EyesOnSales
  22. How to use Google to search smarter - Dig It !
  23. Stop Networking and Start Building Relationships - Dumb Little Man
  24. It’s Not the Size of Your Office Politics Tool… - Dumb Little Man

Build your pipeline

  1. Fill the pipeline with real prospects - not information seekers - Sales 2.0
  2. The Sales Person’s Kryptonite - EyesOnSales
  3. Filling the Sales Pipeline? - The Queen of Cold Calling
  4. Pipeline = Lifeline - ManageSmarter.com
  5. Cold Calling 2.0 - Sales 2.0
  6. Lead management is far from an easy task - B2B Lead Generation Blog
  7. Unstuck the Staller - Dig It !

Prospecting for business

  1. Buying Sales Leads and Prospect Lists? - Sales 2.0
  2. Practice Golden Rule Selling - SalesMotivation.net
  3. Powerful Questions That Will Increase Your Sales - EyesOnSales
  4. 7 Ways to Stop Chasing Decision Makers - Salesopedia
  5. How to Hold Your Prospect’s Attention: - SellingPower
  6. The Top 10 Cold Calling Mistakes - SalesMotivation.net

Closing Strategies

  1. Closing Strategies for Great Sales People - BillCaskey
  2. Stop Trying to Close the Sale - Salesopedia
  3. Collaboration Huddles and 35 Other Ways to Improve Sales and Marketing Teamwork - B2B Lead Generation Blog
  4. Seven Things Every Salesperson Must Do Before the First Meeting - EyesOnSales
  5. Closing Skills. Necessary? Or Just Annoying to the Prospect? - Sales 2.0

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One Comment »

  • Michael said:

    Hi,

    Michael here from Germany.

    Thanks for the god work.

    I was thinking of compiling a similar list …*-)

    Now i can stay lazy and only have to read and adapt …lol

    Keep up the good work …*-)

    Regards

    Michael

    Michael’s last blog post..Would you like to get to the Top on Google and Yahoo?

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