This isn’t your standard, run-of-the-mill interviewing guide. These are tough questions that help to enable you to determine whether the salesperson you are hiring is going to succeed. If you are a salesperson, this is your guide to discovering what areas you may want to ...
This past weekend I attended the SOBCon convention in Chicago. On Saturday night I had the good fortune to meet Chris Brogan ...
A few weeks ago I received an email from a first time salesperson struggling to make appointments. Her problems are many, ...
1. Call and Thank Your Largest Client Maybe your largest client gets plenty of attention. Maybe they demand plenty of ...
Last night at an event, I met a couple of people involved in sales who, when they discovered what I do, asked me about how ...
Lots of technologies can help you produce better sales results.
Each month I post at Sales Bloggers Union. Today I posted: No Is Easy. Go For Yes.
A week ago, Andrew Rudin at Customer Think posted a thought-provoking article titled Seven Sales Topics That Need to Die. ...
There are all kinds of ideas about how you should open a sales call. Some people believe that you need to build rapport ...
I bought the iPad about three weeks ago, hoping that it would be a device that fit soundly between the iPhone (which is an ...
There is nothing more helpful to coaching big deals than a full strategic opportunity review. Spending the time to analyze ...
Here are five more proven ways you can avoid all of the pressure of finding yourself in the top 20% of salespeople. Add ...
The idea for this post has been on my mind for months but has never made the editorial calendar until yesterday. Yesterday, ...
Everyone wants to keep their clients, especially their key accounts. But not everyone deserves to keep his or her key ...
The first rule of nurturing your dream clients is to treat them as if they already were your most important clients. Treat ...
The opening scene of Glengarry Glen Ross is legendary. A young Alec Baldwin plays a character named Blake who is sent to ...
There is almost nothing that reveals as much about a salesperson’s overall effectiveness as does their client list.
A friend recently asked me what has changed in sales. The aim of his question was to discover what new ideas would lead to ...
How do you win new clients? What are the underlying conditions that precede an opportunity for you to compete for their ...
You cannot control when and whether you dream clients are dissatisfied enough to consider your offer.
Yesterday I received a letter from my insurance company informing me that as of May 21, 2010, my backup sewer and drain ...