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Your competitors are arming themselves with the best tools they can in order to beat you. In order to effectively compete and win, you have to arm yourself with the best tools that you possibly can, including your own personal development, your own professional development, your own sales process, and your own proof providers (among other things) Read More

But there is a dark side to the blogosphere that we all should be aware of. And we need to do what we can to stamp it out. Enter one "Michael J. Roman." Mr. Roman may have some excellent qualities, but he appears to be a plagiarizer with a significant body of others' work that he claims to be his own work. Read More

In order for other people to buy you, you have to buy yourself first. That means building your confidence. There are no tricks, gimmick, shortcuts, or secrets. The people who are most confident and the most comfortable in their own skin are the people who have built the foundational attributes of success, who have built the foundational attributes of sales, and who pursue stretch experiences Read More

There are always going to be challenges to deal with in selling, the question is how to not let them occur to begin with. If there hurdles you need to deal with regularly, why not just take them away.
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It sure feels that way today! You rarely reach your prospects on the phone and when you do, they quickly brush you off. When you’re in meetings, they want you to get right to the point.

Sometimes they’re so busy multi-tasking, that you’re not even sure if they’re paying attention. Even your long-term customers fail to return your calls for months, making you wonder what you did wrong.

Welcome to the new normal! Your prospects are suffering from.. Read More

Success with Internet leads has much to do with how you manage those leads. Maybe even mostly to do with how you manage them. However, that lead management process can very effectively be adjusted to smooth and leverage the diversity of there generation methods.

This brief guide will introduce you to several of the Internet marketing methods lead providers use to generate leads Read More

If you are going to network, don’t dip your toe in the water… Dive in head first!

I am a big proponent of networking and referrals for professionals, from generating referrals from your clients and contacts, to getting involved in formal and organized networking groups.

What I can’t figure out is.. Read More

Glance, one of the software tools in my Sales Stack, introduced a very interesting Sales 2.0 concept in their post on Building a Custom Sales 2.0 Toolkit. They framed it in the analogy of the more traditional software stack.

I think they created a very useful analogy Read More

Inside you is a giant, a bigger and better version of you. Most people accept a vision of themselves that is simply too small by conforming to the smaller visions of those around them. Becoming the best you requires having a bigger vision of who you are and of what you are capable Read More

The language choice of “overcoming objections” is ineffective, in part, because of its adversarial connotation. Effective salespeople elicit their client’s concerns, knowing that they are real, substantial, and must be dealt with in order to move a deal forward Read More