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The Iron Laws of Sales

There are some laws that cannot be broken no matter how hard you try. Gravity is one of these laws. You may be able to beat ...
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Call Research: When Too Much of a Good Thing Ain’t Such a Good Thing

I had finally gained an audience with a dream client I had pursued for seven years. I had outlasted the obstacle that ...

Sales 2.0 Still Doesn’t Replace Sales 1.0

This one is going to sting a little. Actually, a lot.

Three Rules for Dealing With Obstacles

Sometimes the real power resides with a decision-influencer, and that can be darn important to moving the decision-maker. ...

Where the Real Power Resides

Where does the real power reside in your dream client? Does the power reside with the C-suite? Does the real authority ...
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Looking at Your Dream Client Through a Glass Darkly

You come to your dream clients carrying all of the ideas and experiences that you have had up to that point. In some cases, ...

Dream Clients vs. Prospects

Much of what has been written here focuses on what we as professional salespeople do and how we can improve, including the ...

Why Should I Buy From You?

It is easy to focus on the end game in sales, getting caught up in selling the solution that will help your dream client to ...

Is What You Are Doing Really Consultative Selling?

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Arm Yourself I

My good friend, David Brock, chafes when I refer to sales as a blood sport. It is hyperbole for sure, but I do think it ...

How To Build Your Confidence in Sales

Build the Success Attributes There is no better—or faster—way to build your self-confidence than to build your competency in ...

The Confidence Game

The list of factors it takes to succeed in sales is long. It is even more difficult to build or improve your effectiveness ...

Is Your Vision of Yourself Big Enough?

Too many people have a vision of themselves that is simply too small. Their vision is limited by what other people think, by ...
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Resolving Concerns Is More Than Overcoming Objections

The language “overcoming objections” doesn’t work for me. First, the idea of an objection is often too strong to describe ...

The Other Side of Diagnosis: Four Problems That Destroy Your Needs Analysis

The ability to diagnose your dream client’s needs is a critical skill that is required to succeed in sales. But four common ...

Five Questions To Ask As Part of Your Sales Call Planning

Is This The Right Call To Make? Now that you have scheduled your sales call, it seems as if it might be too late to ask this ...

Don’t Mistake Selling for the Hard Sell

I know the hard sell. I have done the hard sell myself. I have seen it done by others. I have had it done to me. I have had ...

Arriving Late For Your Sales Call: What It Says About You and Your Company

Inevitably, you will be late to a meeting at some point; an important sales call will run over the time you allotted, there ...

Seemingly Little Mistakes That Cost You Big Opportunities

Most of the mistakes we make on sales calls seem to be small mistakes at the time we make them. They are rarely glaringly ...

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In my senior year of high school, I was required to take a class called Principles of Democracy. The class was an American ...

Discovering the Ground Truth

The ground truth is information that is gathered on location, rather than from up above. The military uses this idea to ...
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