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Blog Category // 2019 (15)

Unforced Sales Errors

There are as many or more ways to lose deals than there are ways to win them. One way to lose, but likely not the most ...
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Some Sales Aphorisms

The likelihood of winning a deal is inversely related to the number of days you have been working it.

What You Find on the Extra Mile

A lot more people run a 5K than a 10K. More run a 10K than a half marathon. Still, a greater number run a half marathon than ...

The Need for Strong Biases in Sales

When I wrote Eat Their Lunch, my editor recommended I remove the words “strong bias” from one chapter heading. In his view, ...

When Your Prospect Steals Your Idea

You worry about your dream client taking your big idea and executing it themselves—or worse, giving the idea to your ...
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Efficiency is Visible in Your Win Rate

The question a leader must ask themselves is, “If someone else was given the resources in my charge, would they produce a ...

Don’t Allow Work to Get In the Way of Your Real Work

Work often gets in the way of your real work. There is a never-ending stream of incoming requests for your time, your ...

On Civility and Politics

Some people have ideas and beliefs that differ from yours. Some of the things they believe and express conflict with what ...

11 Ways You Give Up Control of the Sales Conversation

In The Lost Art of Closing, I wrote about the ten commitments you need in a typical B2B sale. In that book, I identified two ...
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You Don’t Get Paid for Giving Up

You don’t help your dream client produce better results by giving up pursuing them. If what you do would improve their ...

Lead Your Client in the Sales Conversation

Who should lead the sales process, buying process, or what might more accurately be called “the sales conversation,” now ...

Perceived Risks and Real Threats

If you fear losing and avoiding taking the necessary actions to win believing you might put an opportunity at risk, your ...

Sales Is the Free Exchange of Value

Imagine someone has something that you want or need. You want to acquire what is that they have, meaning it has value to ...
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Ask to Correct Your Mistake before Losing a Deal

Have you ever walked out of a sales call, jumped in your car, and entered the freeway on your way back to the office only to ...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Playing to Win

Playing the game is not the same thing as playing to win. You can play the game, simply going through the motions, without ...

Evolving Thoughts on Transactional versus Complex Sales

Here is a shorthand for thinking about the differences between transactional sales and complex sales:

The Cardinal Sin When It Comes to Leads

There are many mistakes one might make when provided with a lead.

Hold These Constant

This is an age of constant, accelerating, disruptive change, much of it providing an improvement, but as much causing damage ...

OutBound and the No Pitching Rule

I just heard from some friends who attended what was supposed to be a big sales conference. They texted me from inside the ...

Future You and Present You for Salespeople

If you missed the Sunday newsletter, you may not be familiar with the concept here. The idea is that you should allow Future ...

Don’t Wait for Motivation

Those who achieve their goals don’t wait for motivation, intrinsic or extrinsic.
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