It was one year ago today that I published my second book, The Lost Art of Closing: Winning the 10 Commitments That Drive Sales.

A lot of people don’t know that authors do not get to name their books. Because the publisher purchases the book…

Here are the top two reasons some people in sales struggle to gain commitments, both of which are very difficult to overcome: 1) an aversion to conflict, and 2) believing their ask will be greeted with an automatic “no.”

On Being Conflict…

We tend to think of the final close as being the most difficult to obtain. But this isn't true. Here is a lis of the commitments you need to gain by degree of difficulty. These three commitments are relatively easy to gain. Even signing the…

You are making selling harder than it has to be.

When you leave a sales interaction with your dream client without a firm commitment that moves the opportunity forward, you are reducing your chances of gaining that commitment, and you are…

Selling well requires that you ask for--and gain--commitments. We move from one commitment to the next commitment, from target to close. If you're going to gain those commitments, you're going to have to ask for them. Here's how to get better at…