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Here’s wishing all of you a healthy and prosperous 2010! And to start off the new year, here are the bizSugar articles that inspired me the most last week. Read More

Two posts over the last two days have generated some interesting comments and feedback. The first was a post titled Quantify Yourself. This post explained that sales is not a numbers game and suggested that you quantify your own personal sales metrics as way to understanding what you might need to improve to improve your sales results. Read More

Less in not more. But more is not always more either. In sales, we too often believe that simply increasing activity is enough to generate increased sales. More often than not, it requires an increase in effectiveness. The key is treating activity problems and effectiveness problems differently. Read More

At time it is the things that we fail to do as sales people that prevent success, rather than how well we do execute those things we do. Planning is one success factor that many sales people do not do, or don't do enough of when they do. Read More

If you follow me on Twitter you know that I like to tweet social media tips. This is a collection of social media tips under 140 characters that I tweeted out over the past year. Here's the list of over 150 tips: Read More

Sales leaders are always looking for ways to improve results. It begins with getting everyone focused on the right things. Here are 8 tips that will help you improve team productivity. Read More

In 1999, I was the general manager of a business. Y2K was on the top of nearly everybody's thoughts at the time. I stayed up until midnight on New Year's eve of that year, wondering if all hell would break loose at midnight thanks to Y2K. Perhaps you joined me on that journey.

Well, all hell didn't break loose (unless you consider the financial industry's near demise about a year ago which had Read More

There are a number of thing that then to come up while selling that need mentioning, but may not merit a full post (some may argue may not merit anything at all). So in doing the year end clean up on my BlackBerry, here are some loose ends. Read More

Knowledge of the cultural baggage you carry around with you helps you to improve the cross-cultural communication skills you need for international business. Your international business success depends on how well you know yourself. Read More

There is a lot of discussion on who is responsible for a companies growth. What do you think, is sales responsible for a companies growth?

This post breaks down, who and what impacts growth the most. Complete with some good discussion and thought. Read More