Your sales message can make or break sales
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A bit of fun and sales wisdom
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 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 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.
Read moreCEO's to Salespeople: How to Answer, "So, What Is It You Do?"
So, you’ve been let loose at a conference or are manning your company’s stand at an exhibition.
You’re looking sharp. Hair recently cut, shoes polished or heels just high enough and your favourite suit or outfit makes you shine with confidence. You look every inch the successful salesperson, head of sales or CEO.
That is until someone walks onto your stand or starts making small talk with you in the line up for the buffet and innocuously asks, “So, what is it that you do?”
Read moreDoes Your Job Title Make People WANT to Respond?
If your salespeople are involved in prospecting for new business and they use email as part of their outreach to new contacts, you may want to take a close look at their email signatures – specifically their job title.
Does their job title establish peer to peer credibility with the person you want them to speak or meet with, or does it, like most of the sales teams I work with, sabotage their prospecting effectiveness and results?
Read moreInside Sales Leaders! STOP Calling Potential Customers TARGETS
Recently, I watched a video delivered by an inside sales expert. He teaches a LOT of leading-edge content that will be creating a great deal of value for his customers.
BUT, and I use the word intentionally, I believe he is unconsciously sabotaging the results that his SDRs and potential customers will be getting because of the words he uses to describe potential customers – aka “targets.”
Read moreCEO, Sales Are Struggling Because of YOU!
In the course of my sales growth advisory, training and coaching engagements over the last ten years, it’s become apparent to me that much of the responsibility for sales organizations that struggle lies at the feet of the company’s most important salesperson: you – the CEO.
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