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I have been running through a lot of questions in my mind lately… but there is one question that keeps popping up, “Has sales become a role where only the elite survive?”

Chad Levitt from the New Sales Economy blog recently invited me for an interview on his site. He asked me some great questions and I decided to lay it all out there and share my perspective of what front line sales people ar Read More

Thoughts on when it is okay to fail and when it is not okay to fail. These meditations focus on the contests in sales, as well as the contests in life. Sometimes it is okay to fail, but never when it is a failure that could have been prevented by additional effort. Read More

A slow and steady approach to sales and prospecting yields gr4eater results in sales and allows you to avoid the usual "ups and downs" of selling. Develop the discipline to maintain a key activities throughout the cycle instead. Read More

A look at how different perspectives impact business basics in cross-cultural sales. And identifying different perspectives is one of the first skills international sales people develop. Read More

Most sales people hate prospecting, but for all the wrong reasons. It is not the rejection as much as the lack of preparedness. Here we look at three key elements to succeed in prospecting. Read More

The openness to ideas, especially ideas that you disagree with and that make you uncomfortable, is one of the foundations of mastery. Judge these different perspectives on their effectiveness in a single situation, knowing that there is no right and wrong. Read More

Here at Kaleidico, we work with social media quite a bit. Not only do we help our clients understand it, embrace it, and succeed with it, but we also use it widely ourselves. So you can imagine our excitement as we sat with about 600 other people in the online live event that Google conducted to announce Buzz, their next iteration of social media networking. Read More

The art of closing sales is not the process of persuading people to make decisions, but the art of making decisions with which people agree. Read More

Salespeople don’t sell product or services; they sell outcomes. Successful salespeople manage these outcomes for their clients and their companies, ensuring that they achieve the results and the outcome that they sold. Read More

I don’t think Sales 2.0 is about sales at all. Think about how people on the web give everything away for FREE. That’s not selling! Sales 2.0 is all about marketing, branding, credibility, and positioning for the future.

So what does the future of sales look like? Let’s start by painting a picture of what’s happening with sales people today… Read More