Defining Sales Management-Just what is power?

Posted by Jack Derby, Head Coach on Sun, Mar 14, 2010

The issue of “power” was front and center with me all this weekend. With two violent winter storms converging, the coast of NH was slammed with hurricane level, sheering winds and three days of flooding rain. All of which resulted in the loss of power at the house from Thursday through Saturday.

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Tags: sales productivity, Sales Optimization, sales management, sales management effectiveness, improved sales management

Grades

Posted by Jack Derby, Head Coach on Mon, Feb 15, 2010

As everyone knows who reads these posts, in my “spare time”, I teach business planning and marketing as a lecturer at MIT and as a marketing professor at Tufts. I love the work and student involvement, plus it provides an excellent opportunity to integrate concepts into the real world of sales and marketing tactics, both for my students and for our companies at the firm since often they become case studies in the classes.

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Tags: Sales Optimization, sales, sales management, sales effectiveness

My Favorite Economist

Posted by Jack Derby, Head Coach on Fri, Jan 29, 2010

Very early yesterday morning, I drove to the picture-perfect New England town of Newport, New Hampshire. Since I had an early morning planning session with a key customer, I wanted to arrive early so that I could go over my notes, plus I wanted to talk to my favorite economist and her reaction to the Wednesday night Obama speech.

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Tags: sales productivity, Sales Optimization, sales management, sales management effectiveness, sales effectiveness, marketing effectiveness, marketing productivity, marketing management