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Growing Pains and Sales’ Responsibilities

Growing Pains and Sales’ Responsibilities

The Sales Blog Mailbag is a never-ending source of excellent—and difficult—questions. I could email the writer directly, but since he came here looking for the answer, there may be others who would benefit from an answer.

You Don’t Have An Hour and Half to Present

The conference room may have been reserved for an hour and a half. You may have been put on the schedule for an hour and a ...

Your Social Media Network and Relationships Network aren’t alike

Your social media network isn’t your real network. Your real network is much smaller and much more valuable than your social ...

On Price, Cost, Value Creation, and the Insanely Jealous

Yesterday Chris Brogan, the social media giant, announced that he was offering a two-hour training class on how to use ...

Are You Prepared to Not Present?

On two separate occasions in as many weeks, I have seen prospective dream clients request or require that the salespeople ...
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Three Investments a Sales Leader Must Make

Many of the most important investments a leader can make are not financial in nature. But these non-financial investments ...

Investment First, Results Second (A Note to Sales Leaders)

There is a never-ending demand to increase revenue, to increase profitability, and to grow the business. These outcomes are ...

Relationships May Not Be Same As You assume. You Still Have to Sell.

All things being equal, relationships win. All things being unequal, relationships still win. But this doesn’t mean that a ...

Answering Questions About What Makes an Order-Taker and Dead Elephants

Yesterday’s post identifying five things that make a person with a sales title and sales responsibilities an order-taker ...
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Five Signs That You Are an Order-Taker

Order-taker is a derogatory term used to describe a person who has a sales title and job description but does no actual ...

Should I Follow My Sales Trainer’s Advice?

This is from another email to The Sales Blog Mailbag. The question is: “Should I follow my sales trainer’s advice and leave ...

Guess What Will Create the Value to Get You In?

I received a thoughtful email on the post Grasping at Straws (Why You Can’t Get In). In part, the sender wanted to know how ...

8 Steps to Building a Model Sales Week

Putting together a model sales week requires that you know your priorities, you get the priorities in the right order, and ...
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Grasping At Straws (Why You Can’t Get In)

Getting in with your dream client has never been easy. Lately, a lot of the comments and emails I have received have ...

Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should

Because you can forego the prospecting today, postponing it until some future date, doesn’t mean that you should skip the ...

All Things Being Unequal, Relationships Win

In business, the hard stuff is the soft stuff. The soft stuff is the hard stuff. This statement couldn’t be any more true ...

How To Make It Rock

As a salesperson, you have many duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Completing all of your necessary tasks and duties is ...
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A Few Words Toward Fortune 500 Salespeople and the Unfortunate 5000

Salespeople that sell for smaller companies often dread competing against larger, better known, and better-financed ...

The Curse of Short Term Goals and Misaligned Values

First, a disclaimer: I am whole-heartedly for goals, quotas, and their attainment. But my support of goals and quotas ...

Quarterly Business Meetings and the Preemptive Strike

Holding quarterly business reviews can help you manage your client’s changing needs, report on your success, and make the ...

Why You Don’t Have to Have the Best Offering to Win Sales

There was an interesting comment on yesterday’s post. The comment suggested that you should sell for the company that has ...
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