It is vital that you respect your client. But it is equally important that you don’t fear your clients—or your prospects. If you are afraid of clients or prospects, your aversion to conflict will cause no end of problems, beginning with things like not wanting to interrupt ...
Ideas are easy. Execution is difficult. Much of the time, extremely difficult. Whether you are trying to stand up a ...
Your dream client is going to ask you about your price. More specifically, they are going to ask you if you can lower your ...
One of the reasons you might not be as productive as you want to be is because the idea isn’t well defined. Many people who ...
Much of what I write here is going to be anathema to a particular variety of sales experts and those who read too much into ...
The short answer to how to become a lifelong learner is never to stop learning. The question is valuable enough to deserve a ...
The statistics on employee engagement are not good. They often show that a large part of the workforce as actively ...
Today, October 11, 2019, marks three years since I published my first book, The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need. My ...
You will inevitably run into clients who, as Oscar Wilde described the cynic, “knows the price of everything and the value ...
There are more ways to get a demo wrong than there are ways to make it compelling and useful. If what you sell requires you ...
How do you decide what to do with your time when confronted with more projects and tasks than one might easily complete in a ...
Over the past couple of weeks, I have had occasion to watch and listen to salespeople enter the conversation from the Left. ...
You have existing clients that need your time and attention. You also need to prospect. Your current clients need things ...
Many people leave a job believing they will be leaving their problems only to find the same challenges somewhere else. When ...
The proliferation of tools, apps, and modern business practices has increased the number of distractions with the power to ...
Your results begin in your mind. What you believe impacts the choices you make, positive or negative. If you hold unhealthy ...
The competencies and character traits that make one an effective leader are too many and too varied to compile on a single ...
The way we prospect now is to use campaigns, a series of communications over time, designed to result in a meeting. ...
The word “objection” is technically correct as it relates to the words your dream clients use when they say no to your ...
An airplane spends most of its time in flight off course. The pilot has to make course corrections continuously. Without ...
You cannot win if you have already lost in your mind. If you have given up and accepted defeat before you have even tried, ...