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Smart companies hire salespeople who already possess the attributes that are required to succeed in sales, and they know that they can’t change people. But people who want to can and do change themselves and we all posses the ability to be something more than we are. Read More

Brochures, flyers, catalogs: They're all part of the weak salesperson's selling arsenal. While these pieces can be helpful in marketing a business or a product, they are rarely much help to a salesperson in selling a product or service. Read More

In most cases, sales processes are effective enough, just like most business strategies are effective enough. The performance gap is in the execution. Sales has never been more difficult and more complex than it is now. But the answer to the complexity isn’t process alone; instead it effective process integrated with the timeless principles that success and sales success has always built upon (pl Read More

Are you master of your emotional domain? Choosing your reactions and responses to the circumstances of your life is the key to greatness! Read More

Let me start by saying that I'm something of a heretic, especially when it comes to business. Some would say that I'm outrageously opinionated, and that listening to my crazy ideas could get you into a lot of trouble. Read More

For sales people Sales 2.0 is a boon as long as they are smart about it. But if they don't manage their "social media footprint", it could impact their Reputation 2.0. Read More

Dirty databases kill morale. It’s so difficult to reach decision makers these days. More than ever, sales success is dependent on our ability to be more efficient. If you are like most sales people, you are working through a combination of various leads lists, and those who are wise, are managing their most targeted contacts through a CRM.

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Bill Rice recalls the late 1990s and the first several years of the 21st century, when lead-gen campaigns on the Web turned acquiring sales leads into a volume game. “Leads were plentiful and a 1% to 2% conversion rate was considered successful,” said Rice, chief sales officer of Kaleidico, which provides software for b-to-b sales. Read More

The term “trusted advisor” used to mean that the salesperson had the business acumen to help their clients achieve better outcomes. It has now come to mean something less; namely, the false idea that trusted advisors don’t sell. Read More

Yes, times are tough for sure. Many people everywhere are struggling all trying to deal with the consequences of the 2008 - 2009 Great Global Recession Read More