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MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Photos

by jwmarcus on March 7, 2010

Quick post for you all:

The photos from the 2010 MIT Sloan Sports Anaytics Conference are now available online. Luminaries such as Mark Cuban, Jonathan Kraft, Daryl Morey, Bill Polian, Bill Simmons, Jessica Gelman and Michael Lewis. Check out the photos at: http://bit.ly/apHRF1. Huge props to Matt Sullivan for all the help.

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3 Tips for Prospecting Online

by jwmarcus on February 21, 2010

We all hate it, but prospecting is the single most important part of selling in 2010. With all of this technology surrounding us, we should at least be able to take out some of the drudgery. As a social salesperson, here are a few questions that come to my mind when I prospect:

  • Is this person the decision maker?
  • Does this person have a pain that my product solves?
  • If not, does their superior or company have some pain that my product solves?
  • Will they / can they refer me to the decision maker?

All of these questions can be answered with a few simple searches through the inter-webs. Let’s look at some free resources that are out there. [click to continue…]

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How do you prospect?

February 17, 2010

How do you prospect? Which sales tools do you use? MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn? Leave a comment below and we can build a tool, together, that allows us to prospect faster and close deals, easier, using the power of the web.

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5 Questions Applied to Social Selling

February 14, 2010
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In order to give a good baseline of the purpose of this blog and the articles I plan to write, I wanted to apply the 5 W’s to the concept of Social Sales.
What is Social Selling?
Social Selling makes use of the social web to help inside and outside sales representatives sell faster, better and easier. [...]

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