Marketing and Advertising

The CEO Close – What Is It. How To Use It

Sales Coach

Close the sale like your CEO would. This technique is friendly, fun and best of all functional – as in it works – unlike most of the tricks you’ll hear about. There’s a popular myth about Closing The Sale. In sales folklore, the ability to close deals is the superstar’s secret sauce. Somehow the superhero [...]

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Automated Sales Management Could Be a Reality Soon

Sales Forecast

Will we see systems for automating sales management soon? With today’s competitive markets, and corporate demands for more performance at lower costs, there has to be a compelling business case. Smart software already makes operations more efficient, and cost effective in other applications. Many services which used to be personal and labour intensive are now [...]

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6 Secrets to Small Business Sales Management

SPPM

Learning how to manage sales in a small business is no simple challenge. There aren’t (m)any training courses which suit, there are no books (yet, watch this space), and hiring people who know how to do it is beyond the resources of most. The majority of small business owners have to learn this inexact science [...]

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Pick of the Business Internet July 19th.

Internet Enabled Business

Image via Wikipedia Here’s my selection of the best articles from the Business Internet last week. Do you get really ticked off by those commercial WiFi spots, in stores, coffee shops, airports, and hotels etc.  You know the ones where the access is shown as public, but only so as you can login and buy [...]

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Reluctant Rainmaker’s Guide to Success in Sales

Sales Coach

Success in sales is more about integrity than tricks, more about efficiency than popularity and more about process than black magic. These are lessons every sales professional learns on the job – not training classes or books. Here’s an introduction to 10 basic principles any newcomer to sales can understand in a few minutes. They’ll [...]

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Always Keep Some Sales Tactics in Reserve

Sales Coach

Sales tactics are precious. We’d should always keep one or two in our back pocket, ready for action when we really need them. A bit like playing cards, we’d should never declare our entire hand, always keeping one “up our sleeve” to keep the other players wondering and guessing. (For the record this isn’t me [...]

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Where Did the Great Sales Guys Go

Sales Coach

Great sales people used to be everywhere. Others would describe them as natural born salesmen. They meant those professionals could talk to anybody, about anything, make friends with everybody and persuade Eskimos to buy freezers. You must remember some great sales guys and the ways everybody else wanted to be like them. I do. But [...]

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Secrets to Selling Consulting

Sales Manager

Selling consulting is different to selling product and nobody teaches how to do it. In fact very few know how to do it. Consulting is mostly sold by consultants, and they don’t train sales guys. Why does this matter? Who cares? Sales is sales, right? Or that’s what the motivational guys would have us believe. [...]

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Knowing the Good Sales Guys from the Bad

Sales Manager

Good sales guys are very different to bad sales guys, in all sorts of ways. Customers will have one view. Colleagues another and management yet another. In this post we’re talking about the sales manager’s perspective. How does a new sales manager tell the difference between his good sales people and the other kind? This [...]

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