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No doubt, you have seen this quantum shift and its consequences in your industry: your competitors have increased in number and become more aggressive. Your products or services are more difficult to sell than in the past. It has become a challenge just to differentiate your company from your competitors, and price issues are a ... Read Post
Excerpted from the book Social Upheaval: How to win @ Social Selling Now, I know that many salespeople will balk at the very thought of being content creators. Many find writing difficult, if not almost impossible. The confidence many have in their oral skills evaporates the moment they are required to transfer their thoughts to ... Read Post
Editor’s note: This blog post is part of our ongoing series of True Sales Tales. Today just about every successful company runs on processes, for sales, for manufacturing, for development and for many other purposes. But some 20 years ago, a process wasn’t so commonplace–and evolution of a standard development process not only helped save ... Read Post
As anyone in a sales position knows, a CRM solution is only as good as the data that can be extracted from it and used to control and manage sales. This is especially true in today’s hectic, lightning fast, highly competitive sales environment. One of the crucial ways in which CRM data is expressed is ... Read Post
Henry Ford once remarked, “A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” It must be true given the sheer number of case studies and books that have been written on the subject. It seems that for a great many businesses, exceptional service has been a ... Read Post
Salespeople and traditional sales training must face an inconvenient truth. A salesperson only gets a sale if his/her customer first decides that salesperson will be getting that sale. Salespeople are in the decision business. In other words, salespeople’s success depends upon the decision making of others. Salespeople must remember that there’s another conversation going on ... Read Post
I have been in sales quite literally my whole life, but up until the last few years I--like many others I am sure--didn't view sales as any kind of noble profession to aspire to. Read Post
In our next True Sales Tale, here is a case of, “Address all possible objections before your customer has the chance to raise them.” Let’s see how that works out. Read Post