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As you get ready to celebrate Valentine's Day, here is a fun piece where you can decide what kind of a Valentine are you when it comes to sales?

With this post, we begin a series examining the sales techniques of the greatest salesperson of all time: Jesus of Nazareth. Before anyone gets upset, this doesn’t mean I’m taking a jaded view of Jesus and only characterizing him as a salesperson. Nor does it mean I’m stepping all over religious toes and pushing Christianity. ...

Conventional wisdom like "I'm busier than ever, customers are so informed they don't need me" or are they in fact myths? Our new series explores the reality.

CEOs and sales managers have long struggled with ensuring their sales team sells on value, not price. They hold rah-rah sales meetings that tout the benefits of the product and services. They teach negotiation skills, with the goal of salespeople standing firm on the price when meeting with a professional buyer. So why do salespeople ...

Business needs and solutions are more complex than ever. So the skills needed to be successful are more critical than ever. Here are two skills that you really need to develop.

For many sales teams today, it’s difficult to imagine work without using some sort of team chat app. These tools have long replaced email as the primary communication hub and a way to improve upon their work processes. Besides improving internal communication and staff morale, they’re also an excellent way to increase your sales team’s ...

When people think of tech, the first place that comes to mind is Silicon Valley. These two concepts have gone hand-in-hand for decades and will continue as such well into the future. However, it doesn’t mean that other cities around the globe won’t eventually catch up to the globally-renowned tech hub at some point or ...

How do you reconcile pounding on hitting sales quotas and, at the same time building deep relationships with customers? We all know that quota behavior is substantially different than relationship behavior. Hitting a quota is very much a hard-hitting transaction activity where the salesperson looks to push solutions at the customer in rapid-fire hoping to ...