Tag: Education

Analytics

Elevating Analytics Through Sales Organization

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To paraphrase Elvis, “A little less analytics and little more action”. As striking as this may sound, the point is to simplify the management ask of salespeople to make sales. This requires that BOTH parties (analytics…
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Highlighting Benefits of Strategic Retail Execution Efforts

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Always happy to share research supporting the strategies and practices covered frequently in this blog. You know how we’re always urging beverage sellers to focus on leading indicators when establishing retail execution strategies…
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Evolving Distributors Winning with Tech Solutions

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So many brands, so little time. Our industry has become highly diversified and there’s too much to keep track of without a technological assist. Today’s larger suppliers manage dozens of brands each with its own series of strategic…
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Setting Smarter Goals Elevates Performance

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We’ve all been taught since grade school that success follows a predictable pattern. Set goals. Pursue said goals. Measure performance. Succeed! However, setting goals alone is not enough to ensure your success. In fact, setting…
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5 Strategies for Becoming Beverage Selling Superheroes

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Want to know how to become the beverage distribution superhero that you know you can be as a wholesaler? Want to be able to leap the tallest competitor in a single bound? Then you’ll want to learn these top five strategies wholesalers…
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How To Use Goals for Better Results

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It’s a New Year and you know what that means? If you work in sales, its goal time! Yes friends, it’s that time of the year when leadership goes through the exercise of establishing the goals that will drive the company’s…
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🛑 Wasting Sales Time

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Contrary to common sense, you can sell more of just about anything by having the discipline to ignore most customers. Ask the nearest sales leader or sales person, “What is the key to selling more?” You’ll probably get…
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GreatVines Supports M&A Activity for Alcoholic Beverage Companies

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  Shanken News Daily’s article titled, “Craft Spirits Continue Bull Run, With More M&A Activity On The Horizon” details the growing wave of merger and acquisition (M&A) activity occurring within the alcoholic…
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GreatVines Proven-Successful Implementation Part 2

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Nothing is more damaging to a beverage sales force than undertaking the effort to deploy a sales process automation solution that fails to live up to its potential. There is a lot that can go wrong during implementation of such…