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Many salespeople fail not because of the lack of sales skills training but because their organizations are not spending enough time/money training them on the emotional power they need for success. I am convinced that salespeople must be trained on the emotional elements of success at the same level that they are trained in pure ...

If one flat statement could be made about today’s sales environment, “It is really complex” would certainly serve. Going back in time, there were 2 basic sales jobs—a salesperson and a sales manager. Today we have field sales, inside sales, SDR sales, vertical sales, horizontal sales, and more. Sales has become a complex team sport ...

In this series, we’ve covered why CRM has failed in the past, what is really needed for a CRM today and what we at Pipeliner are doing about it. Now let’s take a look at how and why Pipeliner factually and practically empowers salespeople. If you utilize CRM anywhere at any time, this could be very ...

As we’ve covered in the first 2 blogs in this series—Will It Now Succeed? and What Should a CRM Really Be Today?—no traditional CRM application has truly empowered salespeople. Interestingly, we brought Pipeliner into the marketplace at a time when the market was actually overrun with CRM applications. One could certainly ask, with some justification, why ...

In the last blog in this series, I discussed the serious shortcomings of CRM applications in the past. There were two major reasons for this—one being the technology not being up to par, and the other being that the user was completely left out of the development equation. For that reason a common phrase about ...

Prospecting – everyone’s talking about it and there are a lot of different approaches. Here’s WHY it’s important and how to do it with a trigger-based approach. There is no sale, no close, no deal, unless we get invited to the table. It all starts with getting in the door and getting that first meeting. ...

Sell Better With Psychology: Sales and Self Talk If you’re a salesperson, you probably talk a lot. You talk to your sales manager, to other people on your sales team, to potential clients, and to former customers. You might even talk to John Golden if you’re filming one of his Sales Expert Insight Interviews for SalesPOP! But, how ...

Our CEO’s new ebook, Ten Guiding Principles for Entrepreneurs, is now available in the Pipeliner Sales Reference Library. It’s free, and packed with indispensable advice for entrepreneurs and sales insights. There is no universal guideline to building your business from the ground up and 10 Guiding Principles for Entrepreneurs does not try to provide you with one, ...