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Partnering has been in vogue for the past few years. It seems as though every sales person wants to partner with their customers. Marketers talk about partnering, consultants want to be everyone's partner. Read More

Nothing happens until we start doing it. We won't get that meeting unless we pick up the phone. We won't understand what it takes to get that order until we ask. We won't get that order until we complete all the work of configuring a solution and completing the proposal. Our manager will not stop h Read More

I've always admired the connection with the customer that my fashion industry clients have--it's something all of us can learn from. These clients are always trying to understand what's hot with their customers, what drives them, what are the great trends or fads they will buy. They focus intently Read More

Can you give me a picture of your customer? What type of business is it, what type of person within the business is it, what are they trying to do, what are their passions, how are you going to address those passions? Read More

We confuse activity and progress, unfortunately too often focusing on activity rather than progress. Read More

There's the old -- and still good -- maxim in sales, follow the money. As sales people, we continue to chase the money. We're measured on revenue, our job is to grow revenue, we focus on orders. Read More

It seems we need to look at the other side of the coin---look at things from our customers' perspectives. Are we strategic suppliers to our customers? Read More

Walking away from a bad deal is tough. Too often, we don't have the courage to do this--the pressure for revenue is so high that we get ourselves into situations that are bad. Read More

He's absolutely right--Our sales process and the customer's buying process is very much like a project plan. The sales person acts as a project manager--developing the plan, aligning the resources (customer, partner, and company),and providing leadership in executing the plan. Many of the skills, d Read More

We have to approach the planning process with the end in mind---when does the customer want to make a decision, when do we want to complete this project? Once we understand the end goal, we develop all our plans by working backwards from that goal. We know our sales process, we know all the activit Read More