Sales is both an art and a science. There is real innate talent involved, just as there are facts and figures rooted in decades of practice. Above all, the key to effective sales is establishing a connection. And you do that by building rapport and trust with your prospective leads. You do that by influencing ... Read Post

For some, failure can mean the end of the road on some activity, venture or goal. But that is only true if you give up and just stop. For me—and for many others like me—failure in some area can act as a valuable learning experience that further enables success. This new series of blogs illustrates, ... Read Post

Condensed from a Pipeliner SalesChat Interview with Andy Gole Interview by John Golden Andy Gole has taught selling skills for over 20 years to over 90 clients in a variety of different industries and market conditions. He started 3 different businesses—a sales agency, a product company, and a consulting company—and has made over 4,000 sales ... Read Post

One way that you can boost your sales is by upselling. Yet, what is the most effective way to create these opportunities? Here are four strategies that will increase the likelihood that prospects will respond favorably to your upselling attempts. Strategy #1: Earn The Right To Attempt to Upsell Before you attempt to upsell you ... Read Post

I recently heard a sales podcast that put forth a concept I was very surprised to hear: that sales coaching is more important than sales management. I asked myself: Did I really hear that? Then I recalled that in the last year or so I’ve been seeing this same kind of message said in different ... Read Post

When a sales team becomes frustrated with marketing the frustrations is most frequently rooted in poor lead quality. It is an understandable frustration, after all the job of a sales representative is literally the only job in the entire company that is expected to shoulder a fair amount of risk. Failure in another role might ... Read Post

In the 20+ years we have been working with sales managers and salespeople, a constant need is sales opportunity strategy advice. One of the main roles of a Sales Manager is to help train your salespeople on how to stay on track during a sales cycle. Each company will have unique domain, market and competitor ... Read Post

The experts are telling us that in today’s economic environment if you want to keep and build your customer base then you need to learn to add value. Value is your differentiator, value is what will make you standout from your competition. So what does that mean to “really” add value? Isn’t it enough that ... Read Post