To succeed in sales you have to hustle—without being a hustler. Hustle means taking action. It means always moving forward. It doesn’t mean that you take advantage of people. If you don’t care about your customers, your clients, and your dream clients, then you are simply a ...
Yesterday, I was part of a Focus roundtable discussion on sales. During the discussion, I made the point that the deep ...
You get to choose your beliefs. You also get to choose the actions that you take. You don’t get to choose the consequences ...
You desperately want to show and tell your dream client about all of the wonderful capabilities and solutions you can use to ...
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I ride a bicycle. Well, that’s not really true; when the weather cooperates I ride a bicycle. I am not in the same shape I ...
To sell effectively, you need to know some things. You need the business acumen that allows you to connect the value you ...
Losing an opportunity with your dream client is never easy. It’s painful to know that another salesperson beat you for the ...
In 1992, I was diagnosed with an arteriovenus malformation at the back of my right temporal lobe. That’s a fancy way of ...
It’s not often, but occasionally you stumble upon someone offering salespeople really bad advice. I mean dangerously bad ...
The old saw is that salespeople are either hunters (salespeople that go obtain new business) or farmers (salespeople that ...
Things may come to those who wait, but only those things left by those who hustle. –Abraham Lincoln Time isn’t on your side. ...
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There are all kinds of ideas about how and why sales is broken.
Sometimes winning your dream client means that you have to wait someone out.
Selling isn’t easy. From quarter to quarter, you have to make your number. That requires that you take all kinds of ...
On my list of critical success attributes for salespeople, number three is competitiveness. It follows only the master key ...
How many times are you going to clean your desk, really? You’ve done all kinds of filing, and you have sorted and resorted ...
So, you are on a roll? You won that big deal dream client, and your pipeline indicates that the future is so bright that ...
It feels great to cross off all of the completed tasks on your to-do list as you complete them. It feels so good, in fact, ...
I’ve had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven’t run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can’t outwork ...
