Salesmanship

6 Golden Rules For Success in Sales

Sales Coach

How many golden rules are there for achieving success in selling? Probably hundreds. In fact you’ll find plenty in this blog. But there are some which stand head and shoulders above the rest. This article focuses on six which apply to any sale, of any product or service, in any business. 1 – Call As [...]

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The Sales Skill Everybody Needs

Sales Coach

Is there a single skill more important than any other for sales people? What do you think? Is it tenacity, or is it bravery? Or maybe it’s a sunny personality? Perhaps its a thick skin? Putting ourselves in a position where we’re a nuisance, or worse, trying to engage others interest in what we have [...]

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How Can Business Owners Manage Sales People

Sales Manager

For business owners managing sales people can be a problem. Selling can seem a black art, with its own concept’s, language and rules. How can anybody who doesn’t understand the black art manage staff who do? Meanwhile entrepreneurs need sales people to grow their business, and therefore they need to manage them. In this article [...]

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6 Secrets to Small Business Sales Management

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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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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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4 Essentials for Success in Sales

Sales Coach

Successful sales people display the same characteristics in my experience, but those characteristics aren’t the ones most people would expect. They don’t include ambitious, aggressive, gregarious, social, pushy, or any of another 20 we might think of. But they do include the qualities we would look for when wanting to buy from somebody! That shouldn’t [...]

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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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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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How to Get the Sales Management Job

Sales Manager

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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