Sales Strategies and Tactics

How To Be Successful in Sales – Without Being Great

Do good customers buy from bad sales people? How come there are so many really bad sales people making money in this world when the professional guys are finding life hard? If you’re the CEO and wondering why that difficult, unsociable, lazy, good for nothing rep makes more money than you do? Or if you’re [...]

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Recognising Bad Sales Managers

Sales Manager

A bad sales manager can be more damaging to the business than almost anybody else. The problem is s/he appears to be one of the team and yet undermines the most important function – winning and keeping customers. It can take a long time for the bad sales manager to get found out, and even [...]

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The Power of Lose/Lose Selling

Sales Strategies and Tactics

Do you have a Magic Move in your sales process? Is there a silver bullet in your sales strategy? If so what is it? How often does it work? How do you know it’s the secret making the difference between hero and zero? I’m no fan of all those self improvement books which teach you [...]

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The Sales Secret You Shouldn’t Need

Sales Coach

The Sales Secret -how many times have you read about this special tip which will turn your life around, transforming you into the top producer? I’ve read too many, much to my annoyance. In fact when the need to get really angry about something comes over me that’s where I go, to read what some [...]

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Do You Have An Inbound Marketing Sales Strategy

Business Internet

Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr Do you have an Inbound Marketing Sales Strategy. How did you develop it and how well does it work? How do you know? Surely marketing is marketing and sales is sales. The two are different beasts – aren’t they? The question arises because an organisation I’m associated [...]

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Where Are You in the Third Breakthrough

Selling Consulting

Image via Wikipedia Selling has always been about ideas, and that’s more true today than it’s ever been. Whilst customers will do everything to avoid the traditional sales pitches they’re cruising the Internet looking for new ideas. It’s those ideas which excite and engage customers, creating aspiration and tearing down the barriers to doing business. [...]

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Are Your Customers Smart or Dumb

Sales Coach

Image via Wikipedia Do you have smart customers or dumb customers, and what does the answer say about your business. I assume my customers are smart and work hard at making them smarter, because that way they’ll understand what I’m saying about their wants and how those will be met by my offer. It’s true [...]

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4 Sales Tools to Increase Productivity

Sales Manager

Four simple Sales Tools can make the difference between the average sales performer and the Ninja superstar. They have nothing to do with clever tricks or motivating philosophies. They have everything to do with being organised, focused and productive. Anybody responsible for sales, from the raw recruit to the Managing Consultant, will produce more revenue [...]

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Surviving Sales Management

Sales Manager

Sales Management can be both the best job in the world, and the worst. And working for sales managers can be fun, or frustrating. From both sides – the manager and the managed – Sales Management is a roller coaster ride, always with the risk of falling from the carriage. It’s not a lot of [...]

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Sales Managers Survival Guide – Review Questions

Sales Manager

Every Sales Manager needs a set of questions they’ll use to review their sales reps pipelines and qualify the deals in them. Those questions will tell them the probability each deal will turn into a real sale, and highlight risks of losing out to competition, or of the sale not going down. Ideally the same [...]

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