Sizzling Sales Contests Offer Three Prizes

According to best-selling author, sales coach, and President of Customersatisfaction.com, Dr. Gary S. Goodman, the good news about conventional sales contests is that there is a big winner, and generally, that person is very, very happy. The bad news is that everyone else is a loser. Avoid this problem, by giving everybody three chances to win! .

Recruiting & Hiring Sales & Marketing Superstars

There are lots of people who get into sales and marketing for the wrong reasons. So there are a lot of people out there who actually don’t have what it takes in order to be successful at sales and marketing.

Invoke The Passion of Your Sales Staff and Drive The Revenues

The revenues and earnings growth is driven by the corporae culture that thrives on building customer relations, and help their customers grow their business

Sales Management and Leadership - They Aren't the Same!

Management and Leadership are NOT the same thing. Managers are sometimes expected to Lead, but are seldom taught how. How would a 3% -8% or more improvement in performance by the sales team affect your bottom line?

Solution Selling With Integrity

Bottom line: Solution selling starts when you find a way to become critical to your customers’ roadmaps, strategies, plans and future. Look for those mile markets and populate your CRM system with them, and you’ll be truly selling solutions with integrity.

Use The Blitz Presentation and Blitz Sale - When Appropriate

Sometimes in commercial/industrial sales we find that we should make a presentation on an initial or cold call and try to get a sale. We must be prepared for that requirement because we don't know when it will happen.

Persistence in Prospecting is Simply the Aerobic Training of Sales

Long Slow Prospecting is to sales what Long Slow Distance is to Triathlons. The more you train, the better you get, so you can train harder and enjoy more success.

Send Me in Coach!

At one time there was a long-standing belief in many sales organizations that coaching of sales representatives was a fundamental sales management responsibility. By contrast today, in the field skill set development is, at best, hit and miss leaving many sales people unclear how their performance is being evaluated. Little wonder sales force turnover is a reality.

Persistence at the Start Really Pays Off

We all have a tough time Prospecting. It is especially difficult to begin a prospecting process when you aren't used to it. Persistence at the beginning of any prospecting program is critical tot the success of the program.

5 Keys to Building a Dynamic Self-Management Sales System

Can you diagnose your business on a 'Single Sheet' of paper? Here are some key steps to help identify your essential competencies and performance metrics. Because numbers don't lie.

6 Danger Signs You May Be Headed to Micro-Management

Do you 'manage people' or Mentor and support competencies and activities? Here are some 'Macro' tips to avoid the pitfalls of sales micro-management.

5 Bad and Lousy Words You Should Never Say In Your Sales Letter

Have you ever wondered why you still haven't made any sale even though your product is truly one of a kind? The failure is in your salesletter itself. Find out the secrets to increase the sales power in your salesletter.

Tracking For Profits

You can't manage what you don't measure...