SOCOM Sales Tips

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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