Sales Process & Strategy
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4 Lessons I Learned About Entrepreneurship From High School Band
I never realized being a band geek was leading me to entrepreneurship. I grew up in Germany on an army base. With my dad as my music teacher, I started playing alto saxophone in seventh grade and continued through high school. The endless hours of practice and the cut-throat competitions did more than just make […]
How to Build Trust Over the Phone with Cold Prospects
We’ve all answered a cold call, but how many times have these interactions won us over? Much of our cold call reluctance comes from how few of these calls actually convince us to buy. I like to use the calls I receive to improve my own cold calling strategies. What made me stay on the […]
Strong Sales Presentations: How to Leave Prospects Begging for More
You’ve made it past the cold calls into the conference room, and now it’s your time to shine. The typical slide shows with bar-graphs and pie charts don’t exactly leave your listener begging for more. So how do you get to the place where prospects are asking questions and ready to sign? What are the […]
How to Improve Your Sales Forecasts
A note on recording calls Call recording laws vary by state. Some states require only one party to consent, and roughly a dozen require every party on the call to consent before you record. Which rule applies usually depends on where the people on the call are, not where your company is, so a team […]
3 Reasons Your Sales Are Stagnant
Stagnating sales. Even seeing those two words written next to each other is painful. But when you’re a manager having to tell them to a salesperson or you’re a sales person having to hear your manager voice them out loud, it’s even worse. There are key misconceptions over the reasons why sales can stagnate and […]
Why Sales Management is a Lot Like War Strategy
The legendary Chinese military general, Sun Tzu stated that “opportunities multiply as they are seized”. Any good salesperson will know that feeling at the beginning of a steamrolling month that leads onto many more sales and referrals later down the line. How many more parallels could be found between sales and war? Most of us […]