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Are You Better Off than You Were Four Years Ago?

Are You Better Off than You Were Four Years Ago?

While we’re talking about politics, let’s not talk about politics. Instead, let’s talk about the only thing standing between you and success: You!

The Reason People Hate Politicians (and how not to make the same mistakes)

Special Cautionary Note: It’s Super Tuesday here today, so everything is a flutter with politics. I don’t write about ...

Your Pre-Sales Call Ritual

I have been thinking a lot about energy. Enthusiasm is contagious. A lack of enthusiasm can come across as a lack of ...

How Do You Know It’s Time to Fire a Salesperson?

A few days ago I received a call from a journalist. She was writing a story about how one knows that it is time to fire a ...

Think You Present Well? Let’s Go to the Video.

When you speak or present, it feels like you are giving a lot of energy. You feel passionate and enthusiastic. You believe ...
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The Most Dangerous Words You Can Say to Yourself

The most dangerous words you say to yourself are the words you place behind the words: “I am . . .” or the words “I can’t.”

Friendly with a Motive

The contact at your dream client is receptive. She’s even more than that: she’s friendly! She takes your phone calls. She ...

What You Must Capture in Your Sales Force Automation

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, ...

The Status Quo: The Most Dangerous Threat to Your Deal

We spend a lot of time thinking about how to compete against our toughest rivals. We spend less time thinking about how we ...
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How to Manage Stuck Deals

This post was written as part of the IBM for Midsize Business program, which provides midsize businesses with the tools, ...

Are You Carrying the Virus that Kills Opportunities?

Some opportunities are really zombies. From a distance, they look like they are living, breathing opportunities. But as you ...

Dispatching Zombie Opportunities

Some of the “opportunities” in your pipeline are dead. Or rather, they are undead. The undead, zombies if you will, look to ...

Shoot the Donkey (A Note to the Sales Manager)

There is a scene in the movie Patton where General George S. Patton is racing across Italy in an attempt to beat Montgomery ...
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You Have No Control. At Best, You Have Influence (A Note to Sales Leaders)

You can tell your people what to do. You can tell them that they have to do it. You can even give them a goal and a quota. ...

Death of a Salesman (Revisited). An Interview with Mike Sabin of D&B

In this podcast, I interview Mike Sabin, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing Solutions for Dun & Bradstreet. ...

You Don’t Need More Information. More Action.

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Are You Investing Enough in Yourself?

I can’t imagine that anyone reading this blog doesn’t have an investment account with some brokerage firm. We know we have ...
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The False Dichotomy of Caring or Salesmanship

Salespeople are getting soft. Like marshmallows.

The Three Stakeholder Groups Your Sales Process Serves

A good sales process can help you to win your opportunities—and faster, too. But a good sales process has three different ...

Prerequisites to Provocation

Sometimes your prospect knows that they are dissatisfied. They know that they need a better result. They may even know what ...

The New Consultative Salesperson

For a very long time, successful salespeople had a very specific set of competencies. These sales skills served them well ...
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