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It’s tantamount to my brushing the dust off that use by 12/2004 can and polishing it up. Whether it’s specialization in how we move our customers through the “sales assemblyline.” We focus our skills development on product training and selling skills.
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We take them through the same standard “handling” as we engage them and move them through our selling process (forget they have their own buying processes and they struggle with it.). We can fire up the same standard reports and send them to the people, saying they should improve. Selling is a human process.
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