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Differentiate: The Ability to Stand Out In a Crowd

The ability to differentiate follows closing because you need to be able to obtain commitments in order to have the ...
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Influence: The Ability to Persuade Others

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Communication: The Ability to Listen and to Explain Ideas

The eighth essential attribute for salespeople is Communication.

Empathy and Emotional Intelligence: The Ability to Connect

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Caring: The Desire to Achieve a Positive Outcome for Others

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Just Get In

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This Week’s Sales Smack: Innovation in Sales, an Oxymoron?

My friends, David Brock ad Jim Keenan, are hosting another episode of Sales Smack. This week’s topic is Innovation in Sales, ...

Three Thoughts on Business Relationships

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Who Are You Warming It Up For?

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How To Make Sure You Can Afford to Lose (and still make quota)

Salespeople get into trouble when they believe so strongly that they will win a particular deal that they don’t take the ...

Visit Me at SalesBloggers Union

Instead of posting here on TSB today, I have made my monthly contribution on SalesBloggers Union. If you haven’t visited the ...

The Master Key to Sales Effectiveness

To be effective in sales requires many and varied skill sets and attributes, all of which are essential. But only one of ...

The Sales Blog iPhone App

The folks at Mother App turned The Sales Blog into an iPhone App. The app is free, and it brings you the feed from The Sales ...
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Selling Inside

Last night I joined a conversation on Jim Keenan’s new Talk Shoe program called Sales Smack. (the call was recorded and is ...

Yes. You Have to Sound Like a Salesperson.

“I don’t want to come across as selling.”

Deals Stalled? How to Advance a Sale

In Yesterday’s post, Deals Stalled? How to Stop Taking Yourself out of the Sale, I wrote about the danger of agreeing to ...

Deals Stalled? How to Stop Taking Yourself Out of the Sale

Too often salespeople cause deals to stall because they take themselves out of the sale (or because they let themselves be ...

C-Level Executives Want to Hear From You. Maybe.

Tuesday’s post, The Truth About Why Salespeople Don’t Like Cold Calling, continues to generate no end of comments (both in ...

Professionalism is about Two Factors

One of the comments I received from a reader earlier this week brought this idea to mind. It stuck with me. Her comment was ...

Mistakes of Ignorance and Ineptitude

The Checklist Manifesto is a new book by Atul Gawande. Dr. Gawande is a general surgeon at the Bringham and Women’s Hospital ...

Quantify III: The Problem with Panaceas

Two posts over the last two days have generated some interesting comments and feedback. The first was a post titled Quantify ...
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