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Give Your Sales Deals A MEDICAL: 7 Steps to Qualify New Business Opportunities View more presentations from Workbooks Online . I don’t know many professionals that feel comfortable with the idea of selling. Many hope that good service delivery coupled with word of mouth and a bit of glad handing at the local golf club will do the job. Unfortunately that’s only likely to get you so far. Workbooks has come up with a 7-point plan that can help you understand the sales process and overcome some of the more obvious pitfalls. Key to their way of thinking is the combination of a structured approach combined with supporting software. Of course there had …
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