{"id":966,"date":"2014-04-23T16:09:54","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T23:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2014-04-23T16:09:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T23:09:54","slug":"the-missing-driver-of-sales-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=966","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Driver of Sales Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, sportsfans, what is it?<\/p>\n<p>I have to confess I missed it when I read the headline.<\/p>\n<p>The missing driver is &#8216;\u00a0listening to the market&#8217;. This is interesting, because when we do sales consulting, the missing driver is often accountability.<\/p>\n<p>But, it&#8217;s a valid point: salespersons usually will find out from customers what you could be doing better or differently with your products or sales. Usually after they&#8217;ve just lost a sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salesbenchmarkindex.com\">www.salesbenchmarkindex.com<\/a> says they have a Sales Leaders Listening Tool. From looking at the first three items, it might be worth giving them your name, position and email address. Interestingly, I didn&#8217;t see &#8216;listening&#8217; as one of the top 3 attributes; not just listening to the market, but listening in general.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, sportsfans, what is it? I have to confess I missed it when I read the headline. The missing driver is &#8216;\u00a0listening to the market&#8217;. This is interesting, because when we do sales consulting, the missing driver is often accountability. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=966\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,5],"tags":[41,59,743],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}