Don’t Let 2020 Become an Excuse: Three Steps to Prepare for 2021
With a sense of uncertainty hanging in the air, Owners and Sales Leaders are reluctant or have even become paralyzed when it comes to developing their 2021 sales budgets. It [...]
What Does Effective Sales Coaching Look Like?
Although much of the world is still experiencing pandemic-related restrictions, business owners are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. We constantly hear the phrase “new [...]
Leading Your Sales Team Out of a Slump
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but a sales slump can and will likely happen to every business at some point. One minute, your company sales are cruising [...]
Sales Training is Not Always the Answer
“Don’t put the cart before the horse.” This age-old analogy often becomes a reality when a company’s sales have slowed, and new leads are not being generated. A quick, and [...]
How B2B Buyer Behavior Has Changed
I’ve always believed that at the heart of it, business buyers are just consumers with different priorities and a bigger checkbook. Businesses now shop for suppliers very much like we [...]
How to Use CRM to Add Value to Your Sales Team
Your customer relationship management (CRM) software system is filled with details about the people and companies most important to your business. But are you using CRM to add value to [...]
How to Create Highly Effective Virtual Client Interactions
In this seventh month of social distancing, client communications seem ever more remote – less accessible and a bit aloof as well as physically distant. How in the world can [...]
How to Make the Move to a Virtual Sales Force
As we start our sixth month of quarantine across America, it is time to come to grips with the fact that some version of “virtual selling” is here to stay. [...]
How to Set Sales Quotas
A friend in the process of starting a new business recently sent me an email, asking, “How in the world do I set sales quotas?” For anyone who hasn’t done [...]
How to Hire a Stellar Sales Team to Accelerate Your Recovery
If there is a silver lining to the pandemic-related economic shut down, it is that a lot of excellent salespeople are now available and hungry to contribute to your business. [...]
7 Things to Do to Be an Effective Sales Leader Now
Learning to adjust your sales leadership practices to fit these unusual times may not be an easy correction. You probably have been honing your system for years; pivoting to these [...]
How Business Leaders Can Help Clients Right Now
Business books written in the last 20 years certainly did not envision the current challenges posed by COVID-19. Whatever you thought 2020 would look like for your company is now [...]
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