Leadership
Prospect Your Way to Selling Success – Step 3: 3-Minute Meeting
If you’ve been following me on this step-by-step approach to filling your pipeline, you already know how to capture the prospect’s attention and the best answer to the question: “Why meet?” Next, we need to move this total stranger from “this looks interesting” to giving up their most precious resource: time. The best way to…
Read MoreProspect Your Way to Selling Success – Step 2: “Why Meet?”
If you understand and implement the principles offered in Step One, you will get the prospect’s attention. As the suit guy says, “I guarantee it.” Like unexpectedly jumping out from behind a door, there are some predictable things you can do to control eyeballs when facing obstacles to prospecting. The next step is a bit…
Read MoreProspecting in Sales Requires Relationship Building. Does Your Team Know How?
Managing a sales team has its own unique set of challenges when it comes to selling and building customer relationships — especially when prospecting over the phone. Even the most well-meaning sales reps might be unsuccessful when encountering certain obstacles in the prospecting process. So, how do you handle the challenges that arise when prospecting…
Read MoreSales Training Objectives: Implementing a Successful Sales Program
We’ve recently discussed the biggest pitfalls of sales training objectives, from believing sales program effectiveness relies solely on the front-line to trying to tackle too many deficiencies at once. For this last post, we’re honing in on the last, and maybe the most important, pitfall: The assumption that generic sales training strategy will work for…
Read MoreWhy Sales Training Programs Aren’t Exclusively A Front-Line Responsibility
In our previous post, What’s More Important in Top Sales Training Courses: Measuring Behaviors or Outcomes? we discussed the importance of measuring the effectiveness of sales training courses by behaviors rather than outcomes. In this blog post, we’re highlighting another leading problem with sales training programs: focusing the initiative exclusively on front-line employees rather than…
Read MoreWhat’s More Important in Top Sales Training Courses: Measuring Behaviors or Outcomes?
In our last post, 2 Ways Sales Training Courses Can Develop Your Sales Management & Reps in 2019, we talked about a serious problem in top sales training courses: Investing more in what happens in the workshop than after. In this post, we’re focusing on another leading problem with sales training courses: measuring behaviors instead…
Read More2 Ways Sales Training Courses Can Develop Your Sales Management & Reps in 2019
In our last post, 4 Things You Should Consider Before Committing to A Sales Training Program, we recognized a severe pitfall of training initiatives: Focusing on the WHAT vs. the WHY. In this post, we’re uncovering the next pitfall of sales training: what happens after sales training courses. Pitfall 2: Investing more in what happens…
Read More4 Things You Should Consider Before Committing to a Sales Training Program
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: Most sales training initiatives fail to deliver. At a minimum, the ROI is fuzzy, bolstered by only a few anecdotal stories strategically captured to make everyone FEEL a bit better about making the investment. But that doesn’t really help, and what’s worse, it doesn’t give any insight on how to make…
Read MoreBuild A Winning Sales Team Using Vince Lombardi’s Tips for Overcoming Top Selling Mistakes
One thing is certain: Vince Lombardi knew how to win. He never had a losing season as a head coach in the NFL, despite taking over some very poorly performing teams, first the Green Bay Packers and then the Washington Redskins. In his honor, the Super Bowl trophy is called the Lombardi Trophy.…
Read MoreSales Management Leaders: This Is How You Effectively Lead a Sales Team
Reps are struggling. Right now, sales management is seeing this trend run rampant in their sales teams. And that’s because everyone is reading the same report that says each year, more and more sellers are missing their quota. What’s it doing to the whiteboard of sales managers everywhere? It’s giving in to the temptation for…
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