On October 2, 2001, the selling world of the medical device took a dent. 3M Company received FDA approval of Avagard® and surgeons stopped scrubbing their hands at sinks outside of Operating Rooms. At the time, I was a medical device rep selling Intraocular Lens Implants (IOLs) and the action was at the scrub sink.…

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When your customers want help and can’t articulate what they need, that’s an opportunity! Three years ago, we bootstrapped Sightpath Creative as an ophthalmology-only agency to serve Sightpath Medical’s customers. Starting anything from scratch is hard. What we wondered is, “Can we build an agency, using existing organizational talent and resources, to help our customers…

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If you want to succeed as a sales representative today, understanding market segmentation is critical. Well-run Sales and Marketing teams now work closely together, and their ability to collaborate creates new opportunities. Proper market segmentation work is foundational to good corporate and territory-level planning. Understand Your Market and How it Works Think of your market…

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My hair is now gray, and these are the 9 selling truths I’d teach my younger self. Professional selling began for me 26 years ago. I was 24, had a baby on the way and my family figured I’d starve. Gratefully, I now have lots of wins and losses under my belt, and I’m still…

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[headline style=”1″ align=”center” headline_tag=”h1″] Sales Reps Must Think Like Innovators to Sell to Innovators [/headline] The first edition of “The Diffusion of Innovation” by Everett Graham was published in 1962. Graham’s seminal work supplied structure to academic thinking about how innovation spreads. Most Sales Reps are familiar with this concept. The fifth edition of his book…

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