Last week I made up all kinds of excuses as to why I couldn’t run the half marathon I signed up for in November. Having peaked at five miles with a ton of pain, I figured I’d give up. My son encouraged me. He told
Too many sellers look for new business in the wrong places. They’re in the dark when it comes to engaging with today’s information rich, time starved consumer. They fail to adapt to new methods of prospecting, discovering information, creating value, and holding the customer’s attention.
Your junk drawer provide a perfect metaphor for your sales process. Your junk drawer, like your sales process, undergoes a natural sort of entropy. We litter them with ideas, metrics, and white papers; we pile on more information and clutter our slide decks. We assume
The benefits of coaching sales teams are undeniable. However, Bad or nonexistent coaching causes negative behaviors to become ingrained in your culture and repeated year after year. Whether you’re a manager or a seller, read these 5 deadly coaching mistakes and make certain you give
Can you believe it? The second quarter of 2019 is already over. In my quarterly roundup, I share with you my top three LinkedIn sales videos from the last three months. All of them have valuable tips that’ll help you increase your sales and achieve
Habits are liberating. A life in which we have to consider which shoe to tie first, and how we want to apply the paste to the brush each day would leave us exhausted. By relying on habits we free our minds to focus on what
Your sales team is the lifeblood of your business, and the guidance you provide is crucial to success in an ever-competitive market. Utilizing these 3 strategies when creating your training program will improve retention in trainees dramatically and ensure your team has the tools they
We often hear that thinking and reflecting are synonymous. They most certainly are not. Self-Reflection demands far more than intelligence. It requires a particular type of vulnerability and courage. Are you spending too much time thinking and not enough reflecting?
Thomas, the CEO of a large conglomerate, was a tough sell, but a lifelong client and now a dear friend. Agreements took months to close, terms were altered, and Thomas insisted on running each revision by “the board.” Come to find years later
Sales can be a tough game. It’s full of rejection, stress, and self-doubt. But once you armor yourself with the structure to manage it all, you’ll find the rewards to be plentiful.
