May 16, 2016 | Best Practices
Most VPs of Sales tend to worry about things like increasing their average deal size, improving their win rates, and ramping up new sales team members as fast as possible to “full sales productivity”. They’re concerned with other things...
Apr 25, 2016 | Best Practices
What does the future B2B sales rep look like? I was musing on this very subject a few weeks back with a long time colleague. We started to riff on this and our creative juices started to flow. Plus we were both a bit punchy as it was late Friday afternoon and it...
Apr 9, 2016 | Best Practices
When did quality die? It seems like everyone is always in such a rush to get things done faster these days. This insatiable need for speed and faster time to market pressures have come directly at the expense of quality. I hate to sound like an anachronistic, old...
Feb 12, 2016 | Best Practices
First, let me qualify that this isn’t a politically inspired blog post. Instead it is a genuine observation that I’ve experienced in watching the Presidential candidates and debates. Most notably, the surging grass roots popularity of one Bernie...
Jan 23, 2016 | Best Practices
You are a sales rep and you’ve just been notified by your prospect that your product/your company has been “verbally selected” as the solution they want to move forward with. As a long time VP of Sales, I can assure you that one of my least favorite terms in sales is...
Dec 29, 2015 | Best Practices
As 2015 comes to a close, I am blessed and humbled to think that the company that I founded, True Sales Results, will be celebrating ten years in business next year. When I started the company, my business plan was drop dead simple. I came up...
Dec 16, 2015 | Best Practices
During my formative years, there was a public service announcement that would come on TV typically during the nightly news and ominously ask you: “It’s 10pm, do you know where your children are?”...
Dec 1, 2015 | Best Practices
When was the last time you were on the receiving end of a sales surprise? Let me guess, it was not of the pleasant sales surprise variety. Our good friends at Merriam-Webster online capture it best by defining the word “surprise” as: “to attack...
