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Read moreSales Leaders! Do Your Salespeople's First Zoom Meetings...Lead to Another?
If you’re like me, you will find these stats staggering. Whether these meetings have been self-generated by salespeople or sourced through marketing, it doesn’t matter.
Read moreBusiness Unusual: Empathize Before Selling
You cannot ignore COVID-19 and keep prospecting and selling as if nothing has happened. You will come across as self-serving and frankly a bit weird (or very ‘businessy’ and boring).
Read moreNewly Promoted Sales Leader?
Sales leaders are the fulcrum for driving sales performance in every company. And yet, they can also be the cause of the chronic inconsistencies that many sales organizations have.
Read moreCEOs & Sales Leaders: Distinctions Drive Performance Improvements and Accelerate Execution
If you ask any salesperson, executive or sales leader what they want to have more of, they will tell you that they want to accelerate - sale cycles, share growth, revenue velocity and more. Speed of execution is a priority.
Read moreOpening Closed Minds
In sales, as in life, there will be times when you encounter people who throw up (unconscious) barriers or resistance even when your intent is to be helpful – to sell them something that could dramatically increase their business results or to improve their personal condition.
Read moreInconsistent Sales Results? Here’s Why
When I ask that question to most CEOs, sales leaders and sales learning and development professionals, I’m usually met with a questioning look and then an explanation of adopting best in class sales process, methods, content or the latest selling fad.
Read moreSales Leaders! How’s Your Forecast Looking?
If you’re honest with yourself, deep down you know they never will – despite your salespeople protestations and best efforts.
That’s because they aren’t qualified properly and your customer doesn’t see or feel the value in buying from you.
CEOs & Sales Leaders! Low Proposal Win Rate?
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been coaching and mentoring several sales teams on how to navigate to power and involve true decision makers in their conversations – so that they’ll win significantly more business.
My Top 10 Blogs in 2019 to Improve Your Sales Results
With the new year and new decade just commencing, I thought I would share my top 10 blogs in 2019! If you’re looking to take sales performance as an individual or team to the next level in 2020, apply these insights.
Read moreWhat Do You Need to Give Up to Grow?
What’s the ONE thing you can STOP doing that will transform your sales results or life?
Back in 2013, I had a truly transformative experience that changed both my life and sales results.
CEOs & Sales Leaders! How Do You Rate Your Salespeople’s Level of Awareness?
Many salespeople - and some sales leaders - will admit that they don’t know what makes them successful. When things are going well, they don’t know why.
Read moreWhat Gets Measured Gets Done. Not Quite…
If you’ve spent any time working in sales, you’ll no doubt have heard, “What gets measured gets done” (variously attributed to W. Edwards Deming, Peter Drucker, and Rheticus).
Read moreYear in Review: 2019’s Biggest Sales Challenges…
In the spirit of providing immediate value (tis' the season), I thought I would share my biggest takeaways from working with sales forces in 2019.
Read moreCEOs & Sales Leaders! Do Your Salespeople Nail Their First Meeting?
If you’re like me, you will find these stats staggering. Whether these meetings have been self-generated by salespeople or sourced through marketing, it doesn’t matter.
Read moreCEOs & Sales Leaders! Are Customers Surprised by Your Pricing?
Do your salespeople wait until the customer asks them what the price will be for your product/service/solution?
Read moreCEOs & Sales Leaders! Do Your Customers Make Your Salespeople Play FETCH?
This is a picture of one of my dogs, Luke. Unfortunately, he passed away far too young for such an active and handsome fella.
Read moreCEO's & Sales Leaders! Can You Teach Curiosity to Salespeople?
Over the years, I’ve often heard CEOs and sales leaders lament that they wish that their salespeople were more curious. Perhaps you wish that, too?
Read more4 Reasons Why Companies Struggle to Grow Sales, Starting with the CEO...
So many businesses struggle to generate enough new sales to take their growth to the next level…and it doesn’t have to be this way.
Throughout my career, first as an inside sales rep (SDR), new business field sales rep, sales leader, executive and finally as a consultant and advisor, I’ve seen the same issues at nearly every company I’ve worked at and consulted with, small or large.
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