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n most businesses, between 70-80% of your leads are long term. They're potential clients who pass all your qualifying criteria - but they're just not ready to buy right now. Ideally, you want to begin to build a relationship with these potential clients so that when the time is right to buy, you're in the front of their mind. Unfortunately, Read More

"It's all very well to say 'qualify your bids'", said a company director last week, "but in our industry, a two per cent win rate is the norm." - is that for real??? Read More

It seems Ben Stein is a bit nostalgic about his first summer job as a teen when he sold shoes. Read More

Perhaps something that is less often looked at with regards to how sales managers interact with the individuals in their department is how managers use the information that comes to them using sales systems. Do you use it monitor behaviour? How far should one go in using this data in managing your personnel? Read More

An effective sales manager uses many methods to help his team achieve their targets. Different approaches are needed for different team members. However, one approach that is almost always neccesary is coaching. And unfortunately, it's usually done very badly. Read More

The author describes the necessary steps for protecting your best accounts. Read More

Is this the most painful customer service story ever? You decide.... Read More

One of the key - yet often overlooked - levers for increasing your sales is velocity: the cycle time from initial lead to closed sale. Read More

This weeks episode is on providing quality follow-up. Our guest this week was Rick Cooper. Rick is Founder and President of The PDA Pro and is author of Million-Dollar Contacts, Fortune is in the Follow Up, Marketing Magic and his most recent Extreme Excellence. Rick is an expert and national speaker on Attraction Marketing and Sales Results. It i Read More

This blog post and podcast article talks about the ability in sales to keep one the most important components of a business continuously providing - its customers. Satisfied customers are the bedrock of any business and maintaining relationships will mean that in hard times they can be relied upon to keep providing business time and time again. Read More