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How to Use Proof Providers

You want to wow your prospective client by sharing testimonials and case studies that prove you can help them improve the important outcome they are facing. As you look at your list of successes, you choose the three largest companies. Each is a marquee logo on its own, but ...

A Confluence of Forces Changing B2B Sales

In 1965, the futurist, Alvin Toffler wrote, "The acceleration of change in our time is, itself, an elemental force. The ...

What To Do After You Lose a Deal

No salesperson wants to lose a deal, especially a large enterprise-level deal. No matter how good you are in sales, losses ...

How Salespeople Must Deal with Recurring Sales Problems Proactively

Salespeople often run into problems during the sales conversation. When these problems recur over time, it can cause a ...

The Operator's Advantage: Moving from Operations to Sales

You are in an operational role, where your job is to execute what your salesperson sells. Occasionally, a salesperson asks ...
3 Big Shifts

The 6 Types of Questions You Need in B2B Sales

Since forever, salespeople have been told, occasionally taught, and less frequently trained to use good questions. Despite ...

Leaders' Responsibility for Low Win Rates

Recently, Andy Paul shared with me that the average win rate in sales is 17 percent. That means it must be nearly impossible ...

B2B Sales Theory and Practice

I recorded a podcast with Andy Paul, Mike Bosworth, and Vince Beese. Andy started by addressing the idea that some people, ...

Discovering the Root Cause

The decision-maker sitting across from me was explaining how every company in my industry had failed him. He disclosed his ...
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Coaching Sales Managers: 10 Tips for Building Sales Leaders

Behind every successful sales team is a sales manager with incredible leadership skills.

The Sales Leader's First Decision

When you are building a sales force or a sales team, you will hire people that have been trained by other sales ...

The Ultimate Guide to Sales Coaching: Tools, Tips, and Tactics

Are you tired of mediocre results and missed targets? 

Too Much Faith In Your Solution

One outcome of solution selling was that sales organizations and their teams began to believe that their solution was what ...
Sales Manager Challenge

8 Advanced Selling Techniques to Master in 2023 (+ Expert Insights)

Are you tired of using the same old sales techniques that fail to close deals and bring in new clients? 

Soft Skills Training for Sales Team: 7 Top Skills (+ Programs to Train Them)

“You can’t learn to be good at sales, it’s just something you’re naturally good at.”

Cold Outreach As It Is Practiced Today Is Dead

Social selling promised sales organizations they would no longer need to make cold calls to create new opportunities. When ...

How to Capture Mindshare

In recent posts here, I have suggested that success in sales is going to require professional expertise. As the uncertainty ...
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Why Sales Leaders Must Prioritize Sales Effectiveness

Many sales leaders believe that they will achieve their sales goals by increasing the number of new opportunities their ...

Things That Are Not Your Fault But Are Your Responsibility

Something that helps you to be a good leader is to believe everything is your fault. A few days ago, there was a LinkedIn ...

The Problem with Prospecting Metrics

No sales leader will dispute that prospecting is critically important to generating new deals and net new revenue. Many ...

The Best Cold Call Script You'll Ever Need

My first job, which I started at age 12, was delivering newspapers. Making money meant knocking on every door in three ...

The Five Problems In Your Sales Pipeline

Sales leaders often require their sales force to fill their pipeline with several multiples of their quota. Ensuring you ...

Concessions vs. Negotiations: Sales Credibility at Stake

Many sales organizations use a terrible approach to negotiation, one that harms salespeople and their companies. Concessions ...

The Mistake of Pursuing Easy-to-Win but Undesirable Clients in Sales

One mistake weak salespeople make is pursuing clients that are easy to win but difficult to service after the deal is ...

Mastering the Art of Selling Value—Strategies for B2B Salespeople

Many salespeople believe they are selling value when they are really selling their products and their services. This is the ...

Thoughts About Effective Selling

Those of us who have had the experience of selling in a highly commoditized industry adapt to the lack of differentiation. ...

Fearing Your Client: The Importance of Candor and Courage in Sales

One of the most important things about the One-Up approach you find in Elite Sales Strategies: A Guide to Being One-Up, ...

What Is Business Acumen in B2B Sales and Why It Is Critical

In The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need, you will find three competencies that most salespeople are lacking. The first is ...

So, You Don't Need Sales Training

Every day we hear from individual sales reps that they get no support to improve their sales skills. We also hear from sales ...

The Future of B2B Sales Is Professional Expertise

In today’s fast-paced business environment, change is constant. While some buyers claim they would prefer a ...

Free Basic Sales Training: Kick Off Your Sales Career with 8 Key Tips

Seventy-five percent of sales hires fail in their first year. 

Empower Your Sales Team: Foster Accountability for Prospecting

It is rare that salespeople default to prospecting, looking instead for other sales-related work. Sales leaders who worry ...

Less Is More: Why You Must Focus on Strategic Targets

As a sales leader, I require my teams to pursue strategic clients. I discourage them from spending their time on companies ...

Mastering Credibility, The Key to Winning Sales Trust

One reason salespeople fail to win clients is because they have a difficult time building sales trust. Business acumen is a ...

A Guide to Mastering Sales Conversation Acumen

If you listen to salespeople in conversation with their prospective clients, you may notice that some salespeople are better ...

Real Life B2B Sales Coaching Scenarios with Examples

It isn’t easy for a sales manager to run a sales team. There are always obstacles, including buyers and decision-makers who ...

Inside the Mind of Consultative Salesperson

Great consultative salespeople have many attributes that help them guide their decisions and interactions with prospective ...

Using KPIs to Benchmark Excellence in B2B Sales Management

Sales leaders use many KPIs to assess their sales teams. These metrics help sales managers improve their results and achieve ...

Interstitial Journaling Secrets for Improved B2B Sales Performance

Do you wish you could remember the details of your conversations with prospects and clients? The more time that passes, the ...

Mastering Best Practices for Sales Communications - Trading Value, Relevance, and Insight

If you feel like something has shifted with sales communications, you are paying attention. We have more ways to communicate ...

Avoid Desperation and Setbacks with Proactive Prospecting!

As a new salesperson, I won three very large clients in short order. One was the state of Ohio, and the other two were big ...

6 Expert Tips for Building a Sales Team from the Ground Up

Sales is the lifeblood of any organization.  Without a strong sales team, it doesn’t matter how great your company’s product ...

Answering Your Questions About Consultative Selling

Many B2B sales representatives believe they are consultative because they ask questions and avoid being pushy. Asking ...

How to Overcome 8 Common Sales Challenges and Close More Deals

Selling effectively has never been easy, regardless of what you sell. In B2B sales, both buying and selling have become more ...

Maximize Your New Client Welcome Email with These 7 Elements

Congratulations! You won your big deal dream client after pursuing them for two years. You have a signed contract, and their ...

Seizing Genuine Sales Opportunities for Growth

In any pipeline, you will find many potential deals. Many records that show up as opportunities are not close to being deals ...

What I Miss About Selling

While I am not romantic about the past, there are several things I miss about the old days of selling. Generally, things ...

How Sales Managers Fail Their Sales Teams

When sales managers fail their sales teams, every stakeholder is harmed. First, the salesperson is harmed by not being ...

Why is Building Rapport So Important in Sales? (+ 7 Do's and Don'ts)

A stranger asks you for money. Do you say yes?

Why You Must Improve Your Win Rates Now

A senior leader was unhappy with his sales force because they consistently failed to meet their sales targets. To improve ...

The Future of Prospecting in B2B Sales

When we say “sales is broken,” we are talking about outdated sales approaches. More sales organizations practice a legacy ...

A Guide to Big Wins: How to Close Enterprise-Level Deals

The strategies you might use when pursuing a small or average-sized company cannot help you win large clients. These large ...

8 Common Mistakes Sales Reps Make

When trying to close more deals and reach your quota, mistakes can be costly. Avoiding common pitfalls can help you improve ...

The Value of Face-to-Face Sales Calls in a Digital World

One of the negative outcomes of the pandemic was the shift from meeting with your clients in real life to virtual. It can be ...

Sales Training Reviews & Testimonials for the Top 5 Programs

U.S. companies spend over $70 billion annually on training their sales teams.

How Your Sales Meeting Agenda Is Killing Your Deals

My client in Cincinnati stopped me from turning on my laptop. I was preparing to share my company’s slide deck, but before I ...

How Much Does Sales Training Cost? (+4 Factors that Increase Price)

Do you want to be 57% more effective at sales than your competitors?

First Meeting Frenzy - B2B Sales Firms Turning to Cash Incentives for Prospects

The email that found its way to my inbox states that the company will pay me $100 for meeting with one of their salespeople. ...

Unlock B2B Sales Success - A Guide to Sales Manager Scenarios

A good sales manager drives their company’s success by leading their sales team and leading growth. Success is scarce in a ...

Eight Rapport Building Mistakes That Cost You Deals

Some sales gurus will try to convince you that you need not be known, liked, and trusted to win deals in B2B sales. Some of ...

B2B Sales Manager 101 - Tips for Success

It has never been easy to lead a sales force, but it is increasingly difficult today. The idea that sales is broken is a way ...

Enterprise Sales Training: Tips, Tools, and Top Trainers

Imagine this: One of your star reps has spent months communicating with a prospective customer. You’ve helped your rep ...

The Ultimate Guide to Building a Successful B2B Sales Funnel

A sales funnel is a concept that illustrates the various stages of a customer's purchase decision process. While sales ...

The Ultimate Guide to Sales Growth Initiatives-Boost Your Revenue in 2023

Supply chain issues and wage growth have been pushing the Fed to raise rates faster than ever, but despite these strong ...

How to Survive the Coming B2B Sales Apocalypse in Outbound Sales

Reaching prospective clients will be more challenging in the future. I know, you think it’s difficult enough now, but the ...

Expert B2B Sales Plays & Best Practices

How you sell is a major factor in sales success. Even though the sales process is no longer linear, we still divide it into ...

Are You Creating Value, Building Value or Adding Value?

As a writer, I care deeply about words. Words and phrases have meanings. When used incorrectly, words can confuse others or ...

Top Sales Operations KPIs to Track & Optimize

Sales operations is the business function responsible for supporting the sales force by improving efficiency and ...

Revolutionize B2B Sales: 5 Strategies for Team Success!

As B2B sales organizations continue to reorganize their go-to-market (GTM) sales teams, there is a convergence into revenue ...

Maximizing Sales Performance through Effective Sales Management

When we assess the sales performance of the sales organization, we measure their results against their sales targets. The ...

6 B2B Sales Strategies that High-Growth Teams Use to Crush Targets

You wouldn’t expect an NFL team to head into a game without having their plays ironed out. Similarly, your sales team can’t ...

A Strategy To Ensure B2B Sales Leaders Reach Their Targets

There is nothing easy about leading a sales force or a sales team. Time passes fast, and you can look up to find you are ...

Enhance Customer Loyalty in B2B Sales with Value Creation

Customer loyalty is critical for growth companies. B2B sales organizations that lose clients (churn) must recover lost ...

How to Increase Revenue in B2B Sales with Value Creation

B2B sales organizations sell to other companies. Sales leaders and their sales teams are responsible for an increase in B2B ...

What is Value Creation in B2B Sales?

Every sales organization and sales professional must choose between two sales approaches: traditional and modern. The ...

Use this Pre-Call Planning Template to Reliably Increase Win Rate

Only thirteen percent of customers believe a salesperson can understand their needs.

Important B2B Sales Enablement Metrics to Measure Performance and ROI

The investment you make in sales enablement ensures your sales force's effectiveness and will allow sales teams to create ...

Lead Generation to Account-Based Selling - How Sales Strategies Have Evolved

Over time, as the external environment changes, sales organizations adapt their sales approach to match the needs of their ...

B2B Sales Fundamentals for Beginners - A Comprehensive Guide

Over time, buyers have changed, and sellers have had to follow. B2B salespeople have had to find new ways to create value ...

The Art of Certainty - How Consultative Selling Helps B2B Buyers Make Confident Decisions

You might have found sales success using a positioning statement about your company and your offerings. You may have found ...

Make It Rain - How to Become a B2B Sales Rainmaker

There are rainmakers and rain barrels. The rainmaker makes rain by creating opportunities and generating sales and income. ...

Guide to Sales Manager Training: 8 Tips For Better Managers

Are you doing everything you can to hit your goals? If you’re not budgeting adequately for sales manager training, you might ...

Building Strong Relationships - Key Principles of Account Management

If you are in sales long enough, you will notice sales organizations (not yours) and some salespeople (not you), underinvest ...

6 Challenges of B2B Social Selling (And How To Overcome Them)

According to Linkedin, seventy-eight percent of the salespeople engaged in social selling are outselling their peers who are ...

Pity the Prospect: A Manifesto on Value Creation in B2B Sales

The writer Kurt Vonnegut used to tell his students to "pity the reader." Vonnegut wanted his students to slow down and think ...

The Ultimate Guide to B2B Sales Training: Strategies, Techniques, Best Practices

The different types of sales include B2C (business to consumer), B2G (business to government), and B2B (business to ...

The Role of Competitive Analysis in Gaining a Competitive Edge

When it comes to competition in sales, there are two conflicting ideas. On the one hand, there is nothing you can do about ...

The Value Proposition of Your First Meeting in B2B Sales

In The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the 10 Commitments That Drive Sales, you will find one of the most powerful sales ...

How to Become a Super Successful Sales Rep in B2B Sales

There are several types of sales. Some salespeople sell to consumers (B2C), while others sell to government entities (B2G). ...

How To Build a Sales Pitch Deck [+ EXAMPLES]

Forty percent of people respond better to visual information than plain text.

What Is the Modern Sales Approach?

The reason professional B2B selling evolves over time is because decision-makers need something new from salespeople. When ...

7 Vital Sales Negotiation Skills Every Rep Needs

In 2010, I said that “Negotiation is the art of the deal.” And it’s still true today.

The Latest Industry Trends in B2B Sales Coaching

There are several ways to improve the effectiveness of a sales force, and B2B sales training is the first way most sales ...

The Strategy of Selling: 5 Top Sales Strategies

Having the best product or solution on the market isn’t enough to close more deals. You can have all the best features and ...

The Art of Prospecting - Finding Your Next Big Opportunity

B2B salespeople need to create a pipeline of new opportunities to achieve their goals. To do this, the salesperson will need ...

Weak Strategies and the New B2B Sales Rapport

In sales, it helps to be known, liked, and trusted. Anyone who argues against the idea that salespeople no longer need to be ...

How B2B Sales Professionals Differentiate and Win Deals

B2B salespeople have been taught and trained that their company and their offerings are what make them different from their ...

How to Address "What's Your Price?" before B2B Sales Discovery

Many of the older, outdated sales approaches forbid salespeople from answering questions about price. These approaches ...

Why You Must First Solve Buying Pain Points in B2B Sales

"Whoever is in a hurry, shows that the thing he is doing is too big for him." —The Earl of Chesterfield For as long as ...

How To Generate Sales Leads: 4 Proven Tactics

A party isn’t a party if no one shows up, and your sales funnel isn’t a fun place to be if you don’t have any leads or ...

How Low Standards for Defining a Sales Opportunity Harms Goal Attainment

Sales leaders and managers demand their teams capture their activity and opportunities in the CRM. (This tool could probably ...

How to Organize a Prospect List for Booking First Meetings

It's important to be organized in sales. You always have open loops you need to close, like sending a new contact the case ...

The Best Sales Training Courses for Sales Managers

Most sales organizations train their sales teams. Fewer train their sales leaders, even though the evidence suggests ...

Stop Overcoming Objections, Start Resolving Concerns in B2B Sales

Over time, B2B selling has changed and become increasingly more complex. A large part of the changes in how we sell in the ...

How to Build a B2B Sales Flywheel for Revenue Growth

A flywheel is a mechanical device used to smooth out energy in combustion engines. It's also a heavy wheel used to oppose ...

Best Sales Training Courses for New B2B Sales Reps

Selling today isn't easy. Buyers have greater needs and expect more of sales professionals, while decision-makers complain ...

5 Outbound Sales SaaS Tips Every Cloud Computing Brand Needs

Think about the last time you bought a shiny new electronic gadget. Did you read the manual, or did you start tinkering ...

Seeing the Invisible Using Sales Psychology in B2B

Most of the strategies related to sales and buyer psychology come from Robert Cialdini's work. Sales professionals are ...

Stop Sending B2B Sales Breakup Emails Now

It isn't easy to schedule a meeting with your dream client. If you are in an industry where you must practice competitive ...

B2B Sales Funnel vs B2C Sales Funnel: 4 Fundamental Differences

We’ve all heard the saying, “trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.”

Improve Sales Forecasts with Individually Weighted Pipelines

Most of the time, sales organizations accept their reps’ low win percentages and the linear stages of the sales process. ...

Why Proactively Prospecting Is Key to Success in B2B Sales

There is an old fable by Aesop about the ant and the grasshopper. The ant is industrious, diligently working through the ...

Competitive B2B Sales and The Imperative of Complex Sales Training

There are two major types of selling. The first type is transactional and the second is complex. The difference between them ...

5 Top Sales Team Performance Metrics You Should Be Tracking

“If you don’t know your numbers, you don’t know your business.”

How to Get Better at Sales Calls and Win More B2B Deals

Your only vehicle for creating and winning deals is the sales conversation, which comprises several sales calls. The better ...

The Rise of Techno-Brutes and the Regression of B2B Sales

There are many problems plaguing B2B sales organizations, but the one that garners the most attention relates to how buyers ...

Sales Leader Guide: How to Choose a B2B Sales Methodology

Every sales organization needs to determine how they interact with decision-makers. How the sales force sells determines the ...

Improve First Meetings by Abandoning Your Spiel for Sales

Sales reps normally start their sales discovery process by building rapport, working to make some connection with a decision ...

5 Proven Outbound Sales Call Script Samples You Should Copy

Fifty-seven percent of B2B executives prefer to be contacted by phone

How to Create a Sales Training Program That Wins Deals

If ever there was a time to train salespeople, that time is now. The sales model we describe as the legacy approach repels ...

The Ultimate Sales Presentation Outline To Close More Deals

A small hole can sink a big ship. Even the smallest crack can let in water; before you know it, you’ll be sinking faster and ...

How B2B Sales Leaders Build Positive Sales Accountability

All sales organizations are pursuing their sales goals during a difficult time, as buyers expect more from their providers. ...

A Simple Rule to Ensure Integrity in Your B2B Sales Pipeline

Sales leaders and sales managers spend a lot of their time worrying about new opportunities. To ensure they have enough, ...

Effective Selling and the Art of B2B Competitive Displacement

There are some sales organizations that sell to companies that are seeking to change providers. In these cases, the B2B ...

What’s the Best Sales Leadership Framework? 3 Elements to Compare

No respectable contractor would start construction on a building without first having a blueprint. Your sales leadership ...

How to Win Deals By Improving Your Contacts' B2B Sales Experience

B2B buyers have raised their standards. They now resist the self-oriented legacy approach to sales, which are typically ...

The Five Must-Have Attributes to Win B2B C-Suite Level Sales

To win C-suite–level sales, you need a set of attributes most salespeople lack. Without them, your chances of winning over ...

How to Be a Better B2B Salesperson by Creating Greater Value

There are a lot of ideas about how to be a better B2B salesperson. For example, you could prospect more, something most ...

Ineffective B2B Sales Training and the Folly of BATNA Negotiation Strategy

I learned negotiation at Harvard Business School. A lot of the ideas in the class came from Getting to Yes, a book by Roger ...

How to Make a Cold Call Sales Pitch: 4 Steps to Success

If you’re not prepared, making a cold call can leave you feeling like a deer in headlights.

How to Conduct an Expert B2B Sales Performance Review That Gets Results

One element of sales performance management is conducting a sales performance review of each salesperson on your team. There ...

How to Build Consensus In B2B Sales By Leading Your Prospect

One of the most difficult challenges in B2B sales is building consensus. When you accepted your job in B2B sales, the job ...

Uncovering 9 Closed Lost Reasons + Winning Sales Strategies

There is nothing worse than having to mark an opportunity record in your CRM as "closed lost." The second-worst prompt is ...

Blue Ocean vs. Red Ocean & the Impact on Your Ability to Win Deals

In sales, differentiation is critically important to success. One of the most popular business differentiation strategies is ...

Efficiency Vs. Effectiveness and the Continuing Battle in B2B Sales

There is a battle being fought in B2B sales, fueled by disagreement on how sales organizations should improve their results. ...

The Best Outbound Calling Strategy in 2023 (with examples)

Nobody likes rejection. It’s one of the reasons why almost two-thirds of sales reps report that cold calling is their least ...

How to Build an Actionable Weekly B2B Sales Report

As a sales manager, you need to report on the success of your sales team, and a weekly B2B sales report allows you to share ...

The Impact of Transformational Leadership In Sales

There are different types of leadership styles, and sales in particular has a number of sales management styles. Effective ...

How to Improve Your Interpersonal Skills in Sales

Your success in sales requires you to engage with all types of people. Selling happens in conversations about change. ...

Five Powerful Discovery Call Questions

The discovery phase of the sales process always proves to be critical. Most salespeople waste discovery by asking the client ...

The Two Dominant Sales Models

There are two dominant sales models being practiced by B2B sales organizations and sales professionals. The most prevalent ...

How to Nurture B2B Leads

The B2B leads that show up in your CRM courtesy of your B2B marketing function and their marketing strategy are not ready to ...

How to Become a Sales Hunter

There are all a lot of titles for sales professionals, including account executive, account manager, sales representative, ...

How to Bust Out of a Sales Slump

Occasionally, even successful salespeople find themselves in a sales slump, where their pipeline isn't working as well as it ...

Seven Goal Attaining Sales Training Techniques

Most of the time a sales organization’s success depends on its sales force having a high level of sales effectiveness. In ...

On Continuous Training

In any human endeavor you find mastery, you find organizations and individuals who place a high premium on continuous ...

How to Ask for Referrals in Sales

B2B sales reps spend a lot of their time creating new opportunities. Some are fortunate enough to have a steady stream of ...

Elements of Sales Territory Mapping

Territory mapping is an important component of sales performance management. The optimal sales territory mapping for your ...

How and Why to Use an Open-Ended Question

To achieve different outcomes inside the sales conversation, you need to ask different questions. Because it is helpful to ...

How to Measure Sales Manager Performance

Sales leaders and sales managers spend time looking at their sales team's performance. What they learn by managing ...

The 10 Sales Training Courses You Need Now

The first book I published was titled The Only Sales Guide You'll Ever Need. I wrote it because I recognized that B2B sales ...

How to Make Time for Sales Coaching

When asked about whether they provide sales coaching, sales managers will often explain they don't have the time to do so. ...

5 Advanced Sales Training Programs for Next-Level Sales Pros

44% of salespeople give up after one “no.”

15 Critical Sales Techniques You Must Master

The word technique means you have a way of doing something to produce an outcome. Because success is individual, it is ...

What Is a Good Customer Acquisition Cost?

The answer to the question “What is a good customer acquisition cost?” will be different across companies. One company's ...

How to Train Your Sales Team

B2B selling has never been easy, but in our current environment it is more challenging than ever. The contacts you sell to ...

How to Elicit Buyer Intent in the Sales Conversation

Some buyers make their intent known, sharing what they want and why. They are transparent about their intentions. Other ...

7 Critical Steps Your Sales Outreach Strategy Needs

More prospects, more sales. Right? Not always.

The Five Things You Need from Your Sales Champion

A first meeting is not automatically an opportunity. You need more evidence before you can consider a first meeting to offer ...

How to Build an Effective Sales Outreach Strategy

Success in sales requires an effective outreach strategy. The more effective your outreach, the greater the number of ...

The 7 Basic Elements of Sales Performance Management

Salespeople have a sales process that guides their approach to creating and winning deals. Sales managers have a cadence to ...

Selling and Complex Buying Behaviors

Selling used to be easier. As a salesperson, you might have called on a decision-maker once or twice. Often, you and your ...

7 Reasons You Need Net New Business

Every sales leader or sales manager is responsible for growing their company's revenue. To grow, you need net new business. ...

What is a Positioning Statement

In a time when there are too many sales organizations chasing too few prospective clients, differentiation is difficult. ...

5 KPIs for Sales that Measure Sales Effectiveness

You might have a huge dashboard spread across two or three screens. You might also have a cluster of gauges that measure ...

Top 5 Financial Advisor Sales Training Programs for 2023

As a financial advisor, your clients invest in you, not just your service.

The Sales Manager's Guide to Opportunity Management

To reach your goals as a sales manager, you need your team to hit their targets. Hitting those targets requires them to ...

How to Calculate Your Closing Ratio

On LinkedIn and other social media platforms, you will find advice like "Don't close deals, open relationships." This ...

3 Best Sales Objection Scripts for Building Consensus and Trust

When budget comes up as an objection in sales calls, seventy-nine percent of deals are lost. If you want to lower that ...

Cross Sell Vs. Upsell

There are differences between cross selling and upselling, and there are also similarities. Both strategies are a way to ...

How to Write a Basho Email

It is a rare occurrence that a decision-maker will open and read your email. If you are unknown, your odds are about the ...

Real Sales Engagement

Technology companies often hijack terms from other industries and use them to name their offerings. This can confuse people ...

14 Example SPIN Questions + Real World Scenarios To Use Them In

“If you can’t solve a problem for your customer, then there’s no basis for a sale. But if you uncover problems you can ...

How To Be a Good Sales Coach: 5 Proven Skills To Master

Sales managers are masters of wearing multiple hats. You’re a leader, a sales rep yourself, a recruiter… and a coach?

6 Proven Rapport Building Questions for Sales Professionals

Every interaction you have with a prospect moves them closer or further away from a sale. 

The Ultimate Guide to Sales Forecasting

Forecasting is one of the more difficult tasks for sales leaders and sales managers. In times of uncertainty or instability, ...

Resolve Client Concerns with BOFU Sales Collateral

One reason marketers and salespeople have trouble communicating is because we speak different languages. For example, we ...

6 Best Sales Development Programs [+ REVIEWS]

Sales is the heart of any successful organization. It's where the money comes from. 

11 Elements of a Successful Sales Culture

A successful sales culture provides a strategic advantage that is often underestimated. A successful sales culture produces ...

The Meaning of The Sales Experience

There are several truths about sales that we rarely acknowledge. The first is that, in sales, the competition isn't between ...

What Is a Drip Campaign?

For a long time, prospecting was limited to cold calling. Sales managers who couldn't help their team improve their sales ...

3 Top SaaS Sales Training Tips to Help You Find the Right Program

In the world of B2B sales, SaaS is one of the largest and fastest-growing industries. Globally, the market is expected to ...

Inbound vs. Outbound Sales

In the way of full disclosure, I started a conference called Outbound. It was a reaction to seeing ads for HubSpot's Inbound ...

How to Use Customer Pain Points in the Sales Conversation

One of the worst things you might ask your prospective client in a first meeting is "What is your problem?" or "What are ...

What Is Churn Rate?

In sales, the word churn means losing a client. Your churn rate is the percentage of revenue you lost due to clients leaving.

A Heretical View of Territory Management

There are several ways you might build and manage a territory as a sales manager or sales leader. You want to make certain ...

Time Management for Salespeople

There is research indicating that salespeople spend very little time actually selling. Various studies show that they spend ...

The Continuing Misalignment of Sales and Marketing Strategy

The legacy approach to sales and marketing strategy continues to harm sales organizations and salespeople. These sales and ...

Why You Should Stop Using the BANT Sales Method

If there were a popular qualifying strategy that would offend your prospective clients while also projecting that you and ...

Relationship Selling vs Consultative Selling: Which is Best and How To Start

Transaction selling, relationship selling, partnership selling, consultative selling… If you’re a sales manager, you’ve ...

How To Learn Sales

Selling isn't the easiest craft to learn. In B2B sales, selling is a series of complex, dynamic conversations about change ...

Five Powerful Sales Negotiation Tactics

There are a lot of books and programs about negotiating, and you can learn something useful from any of them, but many of ...

Effective Sales Management begins with Leadership

There are people who believe management and leadership are the same, but this is not true.

Free Sales Negotiation Training: 6 Steps to Mastering Negotiation

Ne·go·ti·a·tion: A discussion aimed at reaching an agreement. Though this dictionary definition is technically correct, any ...

Common Mistakes in B2B Cold Calling (and how to fix them)

How would you like for coldcold calling to become the best part of your job? 

How to Set Sales Goals You'll Actually Achieve

At the beginning of the new year, your company will dole out your new quota. Your quota is a goal your company sets for you, ...

Sales Pitch Presentation Cheatsheet: 6 Master Tips

A sales pitch presentation is to a salesperson as peanut butter is to a PB & J sandwich. That is to say, it’s not the ...

Professional Development for Sales: 5 Surprisingly Effective Tactics

Would you be interested if I said I had the key to higher employee retention, improved performance, and better workplace ...

How To Improve Sales Performance in 6 Simple Steps

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