Marketing and Advertising

How to Get the Sales Management Job

Interviewing for the sales manager role? It’s time to release your secret weapon – your own definition of process, roles and responsibilities. And you can get that here. First lets understand the backdrop. The people hiring sales managers are rarely experienced in the job themselves. They might be C level executives, or general managers. Quite [...]

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Selling Software Keep It Simple

Sales Coach

Selling Software is a complicated business. We need to have a process. We need to have discipline. We probably need to persuade customers of the value in new ways of thinking. But for the customer, at least, we need to make it simple. Making complicated concepts simple so others can understand is probably the [...]

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The Lost Art of Sales Training

Sales Coach

Sales training appears to be a lost art these days, Companies no longer train their sales people. Every business wants to hire hot shot, proven guys who can hit the road running. That’s the only way to run a cost effective sales function, or at least thats the way it seems. They treat sales reps [...]

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The Brutal Truth About Sales Management

Sales Manager

Twenty five years in sales management taught me one thing – the job stinks. In the process I also learned how to cope with it, or at least my version of how to do that. Here are my reasons for saying it stinks: The truth is harder to find than rocking horse crap. Sales people [...]

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Where’s The Money

Sales Manager

Customers paying for the sale is the ultimate objective of what we do. The sale isn’t truly closed until the customer pays the bill, and in my book also buys the lunch. So knowing how the customer intends to pay is critical for qualifying the sale. But asking how the customer will be paying for [...]

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The Worst Kind of Sales Coaching

Sales Coach

Sales Coaching like this can be dangerous when it influences people looking for straight advice about how professional sales skills. There’s more garbage talked about sales skills than there is about sex, or making money with your blog, or social media marketing. It’s all crap and winds me up because there are some unfortunates out [...]

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Seth’s Blog: Put a name on it

Internet Enabled Business

Here’s a positive step to avoid the faceless bureaucracy that wants to take over your organization: Every new rule needs to be associated with one and only one person who is willing to stand up for it and explain it (to your people and to the public). “No swimming until 45 minutes after eating.” Really? [...]

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Managing the Difficult Prospect

Sales Coach

The Difficult Prospect – we’ve all got them. We can’t deal with them, and can’t make a living without them. Are there strategies we can use to control the conversation with the deals we can win? Are there tactics we can use to close or kill the ones we can’t? What’s a poor sales guy [...]

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The Creative Entrepreneur and How to Be One

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In a year of having my head permanently stuck in the Internet I’ve signed up for a couple of newsletters but never actually read any of them. Not until I came across Copyblogger. Now the daily update from Brian Clark and friends is the ONLY post I read every day. I’m sure there are other [...]

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