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What is a sales opportunity? It is an account or contact that has now been qualified. They are now in your cycles cycle and, for the time being at least, are committed to working with you. You have been in touch with them and have talked at length, and you know their needs and requirements. ...

Today’s changing roles for both the sales rep and sales management are made possible by accurate and useable sales analytics. How have these roles changed? For example, traditionally sales forecasts have been created by sales management, based on data entered and provided by salespeople. Believe it or not, salespeople have greater control over their own ...

Okay, this might seem to be a strange title for an article. But knowing the clear difference between a sales funnel and a sales pipeline can mean a great deal to your company, your sales organization, and your salespeople—and greatly influence your choice of a CRM solution. The Sales Funnel We’ve all seen a funnel. ...

After the considerable amount of research I did for my new book Achieving the Impossible: Lessons from the Apollo Space Program, I basically believe today that everything is indeed possible. Only a month after he walked on the moon, Neil Armstrong said, “I felt a successful lunar landing might inspire men around the world to ...

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant. ― Peter F. Drucker, The Essential Drucker While researching my new ebook Accomplishing the Impossible: Lessons from the Apollo Space Program, I made some fascinating discoveries. For example, did you know ...

Building anything well takes time, perseverance, detailed planning and trials. It doesn’t happen overnight. As I discovered when I was researching the incredible Apollo program for my recent ebook Accomplishing the Impossible: Lessons from the Apollo Space Program, the Apollo program was built step-by-step, layer by layer. As you’re building something, you’re experimenting—not with the ...

The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves. ― Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society In researching my new ebook Achieving the ...

In researching my recent ebook Achieving the Impossible, Lessons from the Apollo Space Program  I made a very interesting discovery that very much applies to sales CRM. Along with other history-making factors, the Apollo program, thanks to a person almost never mentioned in the news and history of the time, set the stage for the ...