Tag: Sales Calls

The prevailing faux wisdom in the world of sales insists that we are never going back to face-to-face meetings with clients. One senior sales leader recently explained to me that his inside sales force was doing so well that he had decided to have…

What someone else does to succeed has no bearing on what you have to do to succeed.

You might need to make 80 dials to produce the number of appointments that result in the number of opportunities you need to reach your goals. For whatever…

A checklist of things you need to provide your sales force.

1. A Great Sales Manager who Leads: Every salesperson is owed a great sales manager to lead them. You should expect any salesperson who isn't provided with a leader to fail, and it…

You never produce results without activity. But you also never produce results without those activities generating a positive outcome.

You can count the number of phone calls you make, but that’s only an indication of one part of your effort,…

1. Engage in a Process that Doesn’t Serve You: Sales process is for sales managers to forecast. It has nothing to do with real sales calls. If your prospective client wants you to fill out an RFP, RFQ, or RFI, do it. If they want an arms-length…

The paradox of insight is that in order to be paid for it, you have to give it away.

You can’t easily capture your dream client’s attention if you can’t share your ideas about how they can improve their results. That’s the value…

There is too much anti-phone sentiment in the world of social media. Social selling is good. But the telephone is better. Here are nine reasons you need to pick up the telephone today.

Your emails have gone unanswered. They have gone unanswered,…

Pick any three Sunday morning political/talk/current events shows, like Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Meet the Press with David Gregory, or Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. Watch the ones that share your brand of America's political parties…

Anonymous wrote to me to ask me which sales process or methodology I use. She’s asking this question because she wants to know what she should adopt and her sales practice.

I don’t know anything about Anonymous or her business, so it would be…

Your dream client has expressed their wishes. They’ve told you what they want to do, and it decreases the odds of your winning. The challenge is that by allowing them to control the process you massively increase the odds of losing the…