It’s Never JUST A Sales Problem!
I totally agree with David Brock here. I saw this many times when I was a sales consultant (and sales manager.) It’s way too easy to blame sales for revenue problems when in fact the bigger problems...
View ArticleStartup sales gigs-watch out for men bearing shades
“Dude, the future of this startup is so bright you better bring shades.” Startups are super exciting but they can turn a “rockstar sales person” into a “loser”. So if one of these “golden...
View Article5 ideas that will impact your sales career
This post is going to be biased. Sorry. I’m a big fan boy of David Meerman Scott dating back to his (in my opinion) classic book The New Rules of Marketing and PR. I read that book in 2008 and it...
View ArticleHow to A/B Test Your Sales Voicemails to Improve Response Rates
I love the concept of this post from Patrick Cahill on the Hubspot Inbound Sales blog. It seems totally sensible to me that sales people should A/B test their calls the same way marketers A/B test web...
View ArticleTime management is everything in sales
In the end the limit to your sales success will be time. If you had an infinite amount of time, you would make an infinite amount of sales. But you don’t. Here’s a useful post from Hubspot on some ways...
View ArticleSocial proximity account plan
A great point highlighted on the Linkedin Sales Blog. I hope to be saying more about this soon. I’ve used this approach for some of my own startup gigs. It works. Designing your go-to-market plan...
View ArticleHow to be great at sales and still get sacked
This is one I’ve seen several times over my (getting long) career. Someone is one of the top performers in a sales team and they still get sacked. How is this possible? The trick is be super...
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