Starting today, I am posting a series of posts on B2B sales dilemmas based on questions I receive from salespeople. This post, the first, is about a struggle that is real to anyone whose role requires them to gain a meeting, making it valuable for…

How much a specific medium appeals to you is not a measure of its effectiveness. Believing that email is efficient is to misconstrue the definition of efficiency. As it pertains to email sales, anything you can do over email can be done better in…

If you are a human being with a heartbeat, the ability to fog a mirror by breathing on it, and in possession of a work email address you were foolish enough to use to fill out a form on a website, then you are in someone's prospecting sequence.…

Last week, I conducted a very informal survey on the biggest challenges in B2B sales now. Acquiring meetings topped the list. There are many reasons your dream client might reject your request for a meeting. Here are some of the most common…

One of the more challenging commitments you must gain in sales is the commitment for time. To obtain that commitment, you must prospect. You might ask yourself, “How do I prospect more effectively?” You make prospecting easier when you have a…

Dear Salespeople That Straight Pitch Me,

While I consider you my sisters and brothers, we need to talk. Every day, you fill my inbox and my LinkedIn inbox with notes straight pitching me what you sell. No one wants you to succeed in sales as much…

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When people write about the fact that less than fifty-percent of salespeople reach their quota, they often intimate that salespeople are somehow getting worse. Maybe they are getting worse, perhaps they aren't. But if they are failing, pointing…

If you want to pursue your dream clients across time and space, you are going to need a professional pursuit plan that allows you to persist as a value creator and not a nuisance. Stringing together the 14 tools you need to nurture your dream…

There is no end to the number of technological tools designed to create efficiency for salespeople and sales organizations. As useful as some of these tools are, there are greater and more challenging inefficiencies that result in poor sales…