Your Brain and Selling What do your brain and selling have to do with each other? How about your PROSPECTS thoughts?? Think it doesn’t matter? What does your brain and selling have to do with each other? The more we look into sales success, we realize how the psychology is what really creates success, or
What are the 5 reasons not to leave a cold call message? I mean we don’t want to keep hanging up, do we? Isn’t there something we can say that will get them to call us? Well, if I had that answer I would be a gazillionaire! There is no one answer to this problem
What Makes a Sales Superstar? So are you hiring sales superstars or aren’t you? If there were one thing I could emphasize to C-level executives is that starting with the right people, the best people is the key to everything. Yes, there are lots of other important factors, if there weren’t, I wouldn’t
Top 5 Lunch Meeting Mistakes Talking too soon about business. Listen, you’re there for a meeting. You’re at this restaurant to talk shop but you also need to show basic social graces. If you jump right in with the business talk the person you’re meeting with isn’t going to be
Are You Ready Now? Change is difficult for most. It has proven so uncomfortable for people that staying where they are and doing what they are doing is more difficult than the change itself, even if it is for the better. Salespeople do the difficult. That’s what
Top 6 Changes in Sales You Must Make now! As much as the world of business has changed, some of the same mistakes are still being made by business development professionals. These 6 things are simple yet a must in creating business today. Searching for Customers is Different Today. Prospecting is the
Are salespeople born or are they made? I hear this question a lot. Surprisingly, the answer is “made.” Believe it or not, there are learned characteristics that help catapult success in sales. And they aren’t what you think. First and foremost, when it comes to sales success, the two most important things you have
5 Things every CEO Needs to know Today CEO’s are in a quagmire. They are finding themselves running their business’s, making CEO decisions yet having to either manage a sales department or wear the sales hat themselves. What’s a CEO to do today? There are 5 things I think are imperative to do if you
Are Hiring Millennial’s in Sales the Right Move? “I can’t find any good salespeople out there. I even tried to hire some young college kids and that was a mistake,” said Matt, the sales director of a ___ Business. “I hired a few of them and they just aren’t engaged, they just seem board.”
I am surprised how often I get a question about accountability. The feeling that you are “babysitting” and not wanting to ‘micro-manage’ your salespeople is bogus! Holding your people accountable for results creates urgency, focus, and positive pressure to perform. Human nature shows us that having a clear picture or vision gives us a more
