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All About IT Sales

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Industry : IT Services, Technology Consulting
Functional Area : B2B Sales, Outsourcing
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Sales costs continue to rise, yet IT vendors remain focused on transaction-oriented practices designed to drive revenue, and the gulf between the buyer and seller continues to widen. The IT sales industry as a whole has matured significantly over the past few years, but vendors' sales strategies have not kept pace. While buyers express interest in a deeper relationship with their suppliers that includes increasing the pace of collaborative innovation, vendors continue to spend too much time in traditional IT sales team education and management processes. Global IT Sales are rising and people are now making sure that they use the medium to its fullest possible strength to get an advantage over others. So here lets discuss on happenings and developments in IT sales Sector....

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Shiv Kumar  |  Argues in support of  "Existing Customers"  |  1 year ago
I fully support Srikanth here, statistically speaking, it is 7 times easier to maintain an existing client relation, than to tap a new one. It just makes a good business strategy to try to maintain as many existing clients as you can and...
Makrand Bhave  |  Argues in support of  "New Customers"  |  2 years ago
Sales is an amazing mix of RETAINING OLD CUSTOMERS ADDING NEW! The ball game in Sales is to think and focus on HOW TO... 1. Increase the chances of old customers buying more 2. Increase the number of clients by adding more These directions...
Srikanth Sakhumalla  |  Argues in support of  "Existing Customers"  |  2 years ago
Hi Folks, it's quite interesting to see that debates are still coming in through, let me quickly add one more dimension to this! In these tough times, you should really look forward to sell more broadly and deeply into existing accounts as...
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Tumse mila mai kal to, Mere dil mein hua ek sound, Lekin aaj tum mili to kehti ho: Your 'FILE NOT FOUND!' Aisa bhi nahi hai ke, I don't like your face Par dil ke computer mein, nahin hai enough 'DISK SPACE' Tumhaare liye pyaar ki 'APPLICATION' create main karoonga Tum usse 'DEBUG' karna, wait main karoonga Tumhaara intezaar karte karte, mai so gaya Yeh dekho mera 'CONNECTION TIMED-OUT' ho gaya
 
 
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vickey  |  Argues in support of  "ccna "  |  1 year ago
yes i think the new technology is daily change and implementation also so how we update our self the ccna u do now u r doing ccnp
Nisha  |  Argues in support of  "ccna "  |  1 year ago
Vikey CCNA and CCNP are two certifications issued by Cisco You would need to have CCNA before you can apply for CCNP. CCNA certified personnel can work with the routers and switched networks while CCNP certified personnel can do this at a much...
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1 Differnt Use with Diffrent Industries.
2 Keep Track on our client every single need
Satya Prakash Choudhary  |  Added idea  "Meeting exceeding expectations."  |  2 years ago
CRM Tool helps in plenty of ways, some of them are being listed here : 1) Sales professionals not only to achieve the target but also maintain short and long term existing and futher relationship with the customer. 2) Storing, extracting...
Apoorv Rami  |  Supported idea  "OPEN FORUM"  |  2 years ago
If you meticulously collect customer opinion as to what products fall in 'favourite', 'not so favourite' 'Hate it' for them, the information can be analysed in conjuction with the demographic details like Age, Gender, Location, etc. This provides...
 
 
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kiran gajula  |  Argues in support of  "No"  |  1 year ago
Customers think market is in recession it is correct to over come recession they should have an good It setuo to over come the same
Mohit Aggarwal  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  2 years ago
Yes Mandar I completely agree with your data view points.
Mandar Thosar  |  Argues in support of  "Yes"  |  3 years ago
If you consider big IT giants then it has definitely posed a threat to IT services industry (since they contribute most in export) but this is a good time for small and mid size companies where they will get chance to beat big players on cost....
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In the business world, the gatekeeper is usually looked upon with disdain by salespeople. The gatekeeper's job is to make sure only certain calls go through to the boss. For those who are making a cold sales call to that company, they are definitely not on the list of people who can get an audience with the decision-maker, no matter how great their pitch or idea. A sales calls require connecting with the right person at the right time, in order to be successful. However, getting past the gatekeepers is no easy feat. Below you'll learn some techniques to help get you in touch with the person you need to for your sales calls esp IT sales calls. IT Sales Cold Calls are Difficult: How do you ge...
Nishchal Khetarpal  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
This article is not impressive. There could be alot many things you could have added. I've been working in this area since last 3 years now and have learnt a lot regarding cold calling.
 
 
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Mihir Jhaveri, PMP, CSCM  |  Answered  |  2 years ago
Hi  Turn your fears into success following are the tips: -Get clear on your market positioning -Pinpoint what it is that you're really afraid of -Use the things you don't like about sales to form a better approach -Examine the styles of those who...
Radhakrishna Marar  |  Answered  |  2 years ago
Mr.Manoj i definitely agree with all your points and adding on to what you said: 1.Lack of knowledge of their product. 2.Lack of convincing power.
Dipak Mawale  |  Answered  |  3 years ago
Following are few mistakes: 1. Low Self Confidence 2. Stretching the Truth 3. Not Saying I Don't Know, When you really Don't Know 4. Common Selling Image 5. Not Knowing Own Product or Service 6. Competition Unawareness 7. Not Understanding the...
 
 
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Amit Avasthi  |  Answered  |  3 years ago
HI Ankit  Microblogging exists in many forms but Twitter is the most popular of them and has been heralded as the biggest invention in social media. Microblogging is basically expressing your thoughts in precise terms (in twitter the limit is 140...
Prakash Rastogi  |  Answered  |  3 years ago
In Micro-blogging there is a technique used  which is called as Pownce in this links as well as folders could be send through messages. This helps to do online marketing apparently affecting sales.
 
 
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As the economy rolls on, IT sales myths still permeate technology and professional services sales forces trying to hit their forecasted sales quotas. Like urban myths, many of these business beliefs just continue to proliferate without identified authorship or business validity. Here are the top ten IT sales myths that are currently in vogue: Myth One Selling to decision influencers will increase your sales. Reality IT decision influencers (usually with titles like manager and director) are professional lookers who will waste your time, slow up your sales cycle and give you false information about buying needs, budgets and opportunities. Why? Because many times they are not in the informati...
R.SANJAY GREGORY WILLIAMS  |  Commented  |  2 years ago
Excellent post it really helped in identifying what to looking for in the IT sales and marketing professional
Manjunath Patil  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
A good one.But I don't agree with you on Myth 1 and 8 of your article, it varies on case basis. I really liked the Myth 2 one, many companies falter on that.
Murali Krishna Kesapragada  |  Commented  |  3 years ago
Excellent Article. I completely support point 3. Cold calling was for a long time ignored by IT Sales people as they thought it was not meant for them. Its only recently that they've realised the importance of cold calling. You can find instances...
 
 
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G TECHNOLOGY  |  Argues in support of  "computer sales & service"  |  2 months ago
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