One outcome of solution selling was that sales organizations and their teams began to believe that their solution was what would win them deals. With a blind faith that their solution was the best choice for their clients, they identified the client’s problem and offered ...
Are you tired of using the same old sales techniques that fail to close deals and bring in new clients?
“You can’t learn to be good at sales, it’s just something you’re naturally good at.”
Social selling promised sales organizations they would no longer need to make cold calls to create new opportunities. When ...
In recent posts here, I have suggested that success in sales is going to require professional expertise. As the uncertainty ...
Many sales leaders believe that they will achieve their sales goals by increasing the number of new opportunities their ...
Something that helps you to be a good leader is to believe everything is your fault. A few days ago, there was a LinkedIn ...
No sales leader will dispute that prospecting is critically important to generating new deals and net new revenue. Many ...
My first job, which I started at age 12, was delivering newspapers. Making money meant knocking on every door in three ...
Sales leaders often require their sales force to fill their pipeline with several multiples of their quota. Ensuring you ...
Many sales organizations use a terrible approach to negotiation, one that harms salespeople and their companies. Concessions ...
One mistake weak salespeople make is pursuing clients that are easy to win but difficult to service after the deal is ...
Many salespeople believe they are selling value when they are really selling their products and their services. This is the ...
Those of us who have had the experience of selling in a highly commoditized industry adapt to the lack of differentiation. ...
One of the most important things about the One-Up approach you find in Elite Sales Strategies: A Guide to Being One-Up, ...
In The Only Sales Guide You’ll Ever Need, you will find three competencies that most salespeople are lacking. The first is ...
Every day we hear from individual sales reps that they get no support to improve their sales skills. We also hear from sales ...
In today’s fast-paced business environment, change is constant. While some buyers claim they would prefer a ...
Seventy-five percent of sales hires fail in their first year.
It is rare that salespeople default to prospecting, looking instead for other sales-related work. Sales leaders who worry ...
As a sales leader, I require my teams to pursue strategic clients. I discourage them from spending their time on companies ...