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 ... Read Post

The B2B buying process is shifting, and as a result, selling as we know it has shifted, too. Until lately, salespeople had a lot of control. Armed with a territory, price structure, and targets, they could roam, free-range style, so long as they managed their territory and produced results. Sales management provided oversight, bridged with ... Read Post

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, ... Read Post

Tips from a Real-Life Buyer Could this be you or someone you know? A lead comes in, and gets assigned to a salesperson. The salesperson, seeing that it’s a reputable company and potentially a decision-making buyer, decides he’d better make that call right now, without any further preparation. Freeze frame! As the rep is poised ... Read Post

Congratulations on closing the sale!  The contract is signed and implementation is moving forward.  Time to move on, right?  Wait! Not so fast. Often overlooked is a retrospective meeting with decision makers.  This is an opportunity to look back, debrief the process, and tweak your tactics.  A retrospective conversation is a way to know what ... Read Post

  In 1725, a young Italian painter named Giovanni Antonio Canal, or as he is better known, Canaletto, learned an extremely important lesson about the business of painting. That lesson turned him from a down-and-out painter of everyday Venetian life into a wealthy artist whose works were fought over by Catherine The Great and other ... Read Post

Customer engagement is not about sending out the most emails in one day. Productivity is important, but overload may lead recipients to “emotionally unsubscribe.” As a sales pro, you have lots of reasons to become accustomed to thinking about ways you can optimize customer engagement. Accountability is the new sales buzzword. Only about half of ... Read Post

Editor’s Note: Today we are happy to welcome Jeff Shore to our blogging community. Jeff is a self-described “sales wonk” who works with small companies to help them embrace their discomforts and deliver bold sales results. Recently we’ve looked at the issue of turnover in sales from the viewpoint of the hiring side . Today ... Read Post