What's keeping you up at night? It's a classic question many sales people use to start identifying their customers' needs and priorities. In reality, however, it's a terrible starting point. It may mean, you haven't done your homwork in preparing for the call, particularly with senior executives. Read More
A recent post on one of Harvard Business Review’s blogs offers some unexpected news about sales training. Authors Matthew Dixon and Brent Adamson report that managers who coach their weakest salespeople usually don’t get much of a return on their investment. Surprisingly, managers who coach their m Read More
Most sales people hate voice mail, and most will not leave a message for a number of not so valid reasons: Mistake. While there is no silver bullet to dealing with voice mail, there are specific steps you can take to increase returned calls, and build value over time. Just check out the video! Read More
Companies spend $100's of millions every year in training sales people about their products and solutions. As sales people, we are proud of our knowledge--naturally eager to demonstrate it to customers. Likewise, people in our company who may support us--developing sales and marketing materials, re Read More
I am asking you to donate $5.00 for my webinar on Friday, May 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM EDT. My presentation is called “Building Your 13-Week Sales Success Plan. Read More
To understand another method for making the sale, Dike Drummond MD breaks down the best principles for the new culture. Creating business success with "authenticity" is one of the many points discussed. Inspiring and educational. Read More
Can you describe what your business does in 30 seconds or less? Craft an interesting and concise elevator pitch and give your sales and networking efforts an extra boost. Read More
It’s surprising how many sales organizations don’t provide their salespeople commission or bonus reports. Sometimes the information is difficult to acquire. Most of the time, the information exists but the will to capture and report the salesperson’s bonus or commission doesn’t exist. Read More
Great sales professionals get what they want---the reason is purposefulness. They build a plan, they execute the plan, they try to eliminate any roadblocks to getting what they want. If it's a sales call--they don't leave anything to chance. They develop a call plan and execute it. They have clear Read More
I do absolutely love being an insurance agent because of the support, security and ultimately satisfaction I deliver to my clients everyday Read More
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