The sales rep was in the customer’s office for their first meeting. The rep had skillfully probed and qualified the account with questions that gathered quite a bit of data… read more →
They say that nice guys finish last. Really? In sales, nice guys can finish first and win the deal. Of course, turkey salespeople can win deals sometimes too. But more… read more →
Everyone sells and for the most part everybody knows how to sell, whether intuitively or from professional experience or training. The key today is in truly optimizing how you sell… read more →
It’s that time again. Another month, another quarter start, another second half of the year, in some cases a final close of the fiscal year. It’s either going well, going… read more →
We all like winners and can appreciate superstars when we see them. We admire the superstar athlete who is talented beyond question and helps his team win games. But we’ve… read more →
When Chief Sales Officers were interviewed and asked in 2011 what their top sales priorities were for the coming 2012 year, across the globe they said: 1. Increase Sales Effectiveness… read more →
Aberdeen Group research published in 2012, Better Sales Forecasting Through Process and Technology, highlights how top performers better deploy process and technology to achieve not only more accurate forecasts, but… read more →
In traveling to Asia Pacific, Europe and throughout North America, we work with sales teams with various approaches to effective sales messaging. Some teams use extensive but tired scripts to… read more →
Here we go again. Assuming a calendar fiscal year, it’s a new season, a new quarter. 2012 numbers have long been finalized. Recognition and achievement awards have almost all been… read more →
There is natural aligning of the 5 attributes of a Sales Superstar (see Rule #12) in my book 42 Rules to Increase Sales Effectiveness and the 5 sales rep types… read more →