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Is it possible for a huge database of contacts or thousands of friends or followers to actually reduce your sales output? Yes!

This isn’t another rant on quality over quantity in lead generation. Or a diatribe on how critical lead management is to sales. It’s an important sales discussion about focus, discipline, and misplaced hope Read More

Who am I to argue with General Dwight D. Eisenhower? He made the comment in this post’s title regarding the Normandy invasion. He was reflecting upon how little the actual battle resembled the D-Day plan; a plan that resulted from a truly stupendous effort on the part of the Allies Read More

What’s in it for the customer? From day one of a sales career, the necessity of thinking in that context is crystal clear. Everybody knows it. Everybody believes it. It’s intuitively obvious!!! BUT …sometimes the obvious is not so easy to execute Read More

Silence can have just as great an impact on moving the sales forward as saying something (anything). Sales professional need to get more comfortable with it's powers and here is why Read More

Are you exhausted? …feeling like you have lost your passion? Here’s a list of 10 things you can do to climb out of the rut and get re-energized Read More

I was having a casual chat with a friend this weekend who happens to be a very successful commission salesperson in the business-to-consumer space. I'm not sure how we got on the subject, but she told me that, as a consumer, she avoids dealing with commission salespeople.

When I asked her what she meant, she said she avoids buying from commissioned salespeople because "they don't care about me, they only have their own interests in mind." She went o Read More

Don't use perfecting something as an excuse for not doing it. Execution is more important than perfection, by doing you learn and improve, by perfecting you waste opportunity Read More

There is a lot to be said for remembering the past, even in sales it true that if you forget it you are doomed to repeat it. The idea is not to forget the darkness of 2009, but to learn from it, to profit from the knowledge gained.
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I know, I know, you’ve all heard the “ask why five times” cliché over and over and over. Why repeat it again? I’ll tell you why. It’s because of a story I heard just last week from an extremely successful rep with more than 30 years of experience Read More

Here is a chance to get great insight from 9 leading sales bloggers in a unique format. No Tolstoy like things that never get read. 9 words, 125 words describing each, you are ready to go and use in minutes. Less Filling - More Satisfying Read More