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Blog Category // 2010

On the Art of Sales and Prussian Generals

Reading Stephen Bungay’s The Art of Action: Leadership that Closes Gaps, between Plans, Actions and Results is the latest ...
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The Receptivity Trap

Your time is limited. You need to focus where you can make an impact and where you can produce results. This means you have ...

The Salesperson’s Guide to Reflecting on Wins and Losses

We are a few short days away from the start of a new year, and before you go barreling headlong into 2011 with your ...

What Your Sales Manager Expects From You Regarding Constraints

It’s natural that your best intentions and best made plans rub up against the friction that is reality. Sometimes what you ...

Execution is a Differentiator—If You Can Prove It

You compete in a crowded marketplace with a lot of offerings that look and sound a lot like yours. To create an opportunity, ...
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Happy Holidays!

I want to wish you and yours a very safe and happy holiday season!

Acting Against Your Professed Beliefs

Down deep, I am a basics and fundamentals guy. What is necessary to sell well isn’t some great, big, new, and esoteric idea. ...

Competing Against Fairy Tales

There are some salespeople—and some sales organizations—that are willing to tell their prospective clients whatever they ...

The Business Relationships Maturity Continuum

The business of sales is about people and it’s about relationships. I have written before about dream clients and nightmare ...
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Sell Your Change Initiative by Helping Your Dream Client

You may have done good work building the relationship with your power sponsor, you may have spent your time deep in the ...

Keeping Commitments: Why Follow Up and Follow Through Make or Break Opportunities

You said it. You meant every word, and you had every intention of doing what you said that you would do. The task that you ...

Playing All Four Quarters

Your dream clients worry at the end of their buying cycle. Right before they are ready to choose and commit, the doubts ...

The Annual Top Sales Awards (Part Two)

Yesterday, I expressed my gratitude for having been awarded Top Sales Blog. But this isn’t about me, so let’s move on to ...

The Annual Top Sales Awards

A Thank You Card, Business Card Enclosed

These are enormous differences between marketing and nurturing your dream clients. Marketing isn’t personal. It does nothing ...

It’s A Matter of Willingness (A Note to the Sales Manager)

Hiring salespeople is no mean feat. Their prior success isn’t always an indication of future performance. There are a great ...

What To Do With the Last Three Weeks of the Sales Year

If you are in sales management, you have no doubt heard the excuses: there is no one in right now, they are all on vacation ...

How To Stop Entrenching Yourself in Unhealthy Beliefs

Sometimes it turns out that your long and firmly held beliefs are wrong. They may have at one time been true. Or maybe what ...

The Sale Inside the Sale: A Better Buying Process

To advance an opportunity from target to close, you have to obtain a bunch of smaller commitments that may, eventually, lead ...

Pricing Problems: On Claiming Value You Helped to Create

I feel so strongly about the principle that salespeople are to create so much value for their dream client that they can ...

There Is Nothing Sexy About Being Dispassionate

Lately, I have noticed that salespeople are trying to be more and more “professional.” I put professional in quotes because ...
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