How to Shop for a Sales Consultant

So, you’re considering bringing in someone to help ramp up your team’s sales productivity. Hiring an FTE doesn’t make financial sense just yet, so you are thinking a consultant might do the trick. There are lots of them out there, so how do you go about selecting the right one? Here are a few things […]

Skip the School of Hard Knocks

You likely learned a ton about how to run your business by attending the School of Hard Knocks. You are likely [and justifiably] proud of making it through not only intact but looking pretty good! When it comes to the sales function however, skip school this time. If sales aren’t your passion, your results aren’t […]

Will Your Sales Approach Support Your Growth Goals?

How much revenue will your sales team close 90 days from now? If you can’t answer this question with any level of confidence you are not alone. Many leaders I chat with struggle to predict their sales team’s revenue even 30 days out. If you aren’t all over tracking your leading sales indicators, it’s next […]

An Otherwise Good Walk Ruined

There is an old saying that goes, “golf is an otherwise good walk ruined”, referring to the frustrations inherent in trying to get that darned little white ball into the hole. Achieving revenue growth may not always happen as quickly as we’d like, but it should not feel as frustrating as golf often feels. Are […]

Revenue Growth Hacking

Every company wants massive growth, like now! I’ve worked with over 100 companies and here is a list of the top growth hacks [in order of importance] I have seen that actually work. Staff Up – the top reason companies fail to achieve the hockey-stick-graph-growth is they don’t have enough dedicated staff selling all day, […]

The Best Way to Handle a Price Objection

The absolute best way to handle a price objection is to structure your sale so you don’t get one. Price objections arise because buyers are unaware of the price range they are looking at for their purchase, or don’t see enough value in your offer to pay your price. Take a value-based approach to your […]

The Heart of Motivation

Selling is a funny job. It seems to require an unusual amount of motivation for one to perform consistently at a high level. I’m not sure why this is. Does accounting require a high level of motivation to do it well? How about Human Resources? I don’t know – I’ve not done either of those […]

Measure These Things Now

With the ubiquity of CRM sales has become like baseball — you can measure your stats six ways to Sunday. The trouble is, some people do! Don’t get stuck in analysis paralysis. There are but a few things you need to measure to predict your sales future. Sales is an efficiency and effectiveness game. How […]

Social Selling Using LinkedIn Part II

In my last blog post I showed how investing 10 minutes in Social Selling per day can improve your prospecting effectiveness and eliminate cold calling. [If you haven’t read it, click here]. In this posting I’ll share two effective ways to build the targeted list of buyers you want to be introduced to so you can […]

“There MUST be a better way to sell!”

Sell More by Selling Less

After studying many sales methodologies and being thoroughly bamboozled by most of them I thought “there must be a better way to sell. One that is sound, effective and is easy to learn and apply.” That way is The Conversational Sales Method. In Sell More by Selling Less you will learn to master it.

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