Below, you’ll find some sales related articles that cut to the heart of pressing, urgent, and costly problems that affect real businesses – like yours. These are all available free, and you’re welcome to share them with your staff, colleagues, and contacts.
The days of easy sales are probably gone for good. This is certainly bad news for organizations that haven’t taken a proactive approach to sales. However, for those that have invested in optimizing the performance of their sales team, opportunities are plentiful and customers are buying. Do your salespeople have the tools they need to […]
When business is slow we are all like deer on a dark and windy road. Some of us see approaching headlights and instinctively know to leap into the woods. Unfortunately, others of us freeze. Unable to go left or right; we think that wherever we leap to will be worse than our current position. I […]
Sure you don’t want to cold call but sometimes it’s simply a necessity such as when your sales pipeline is empty and not enough leads are coming in or your networking isn’t generating enough activity. Most people approach cold calling with a certain degree of fear and loathing but with a small amount of preparation […]
The age-old debate of quantity versus quality – Is one truly more important than the other? For sales professionals, the answer is unequivocally NO! Quantity AND quality are both important if you want to succeed. We’ve all heard the “experts” drone on and on about the importance of “quality” when it comes to leads. […]
As a sales consultant and trainer for the past 28 years I’ve worked in pretty much every conceivable industry. I’ve seen the good (great!), the bad and the ugly and have always attempted to add my 2 cents so that the marketing endeavors are aligned with and support my client’s sales efforts. But here’s the […]
It’s 2016 and one month is gone already. Many of us started the year with aggressive sales goals and at this juncture – one month in – I need to ask you, “how are things going?” I’m not expecting that a significant amount of new business could be closed in just these 4 weeks but […]
It’s a new year. A new you and all that jazz. The pressure of resolutions or maybe you call them goals. Maybe you make them or maybe you don’t. It doesn’t much matter. What DOES matter is that you have to start something. Inertia is a killer. Michael was right. You have to start SOMETHING, […]
I read this article in Smart Hustle by Megan Totka and immediately adopted some of the action steps outlined in the article. Take a look. Perhaps they will work for you as well: Facebook says it is home to over 30 million active small business pages. How can you get your page noticed? How can […]
We’ve all had those sales presentations where everything went right. You captivated the audience with your words, and they nodded in agreement. You left the room feeling like a rock star, confident that you’d soon have a sale. Then, the romance quickly ended when you tried to close the deal. They fell off your grid, […]
