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Organizations are getting a raw deal; they recruit salespeople with impressive credentials and experience and expect these individuals to apply what they know and have done to improve performance and achieve higher levels of market success. The problem is, salespeople and everyone else are the victims of an education system that teaches compliance; adhere to ...

Align content and technology with organizational initiatives Today’s digital world has dramatically and forever changed the selling environment. Business buyers now have answers, opinions, and research at their fingertips, thanks to advances in online and mobile technologies. As a result, salespeople are invited late to the sales opportunity, after major decisions have been made. Within ...

What's the first component of a salesperson's mindset--of social intelligence--without which none of the others will fall into place? That would be self-responsibility.

How many times, after a three, six or twelve month sell cycle, have you lost a sale that’s critical to making your number for the quarter? When do you think you knew, in your heart of hearts, that you never had a real chance at winning the business? Was it after one meeting? Five? Fifteen? ...

Condensed from a Pipeliner SalesChat Interview with Ken Thoreson, conducted by John Golden Ken Thoreson is the president of Acumen Management Group and a recognized expert in sales execution channel management. He has over 18 years in consulting and advisory positions and has led development-stage entrepreneurship as well as $250 million national vertical software sales ...

The higher you go in a company, the more important it is that you take your role as a leader seriously.

If the all-encompassing Pareto principle has something to say about it, around 80% of the work that goes around in any given company is done by just 20% of its employees. This makes those hard-working employees, especially sales personnel, the true secret asset of any business, and is the main motive why certain firms manage to ...

Like everything else in the modern age, sales changes at an incredible rate. The buyer of today has far more power than they did yesterday, armed with all the information the Internet has to offer. They keep to their own buying schedule, without the guidance they might have previously had from a salesperson. Because of ...