Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Have you ever heard start-ups or entrepreneurs claim that they can’t afford to pay for marketing and sales? They’ll “make it up to you” on the back end with a high commission payout. Yet these same entrepreneurs will invest hundreds of...
Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Remember the days when the dreaded executive admin (aka-gatekeeper) would screen all incoming calls to their executives. As a salesperson, you were convinced that they all looked like battle axes, always woke up on the wrong side of the bed and never had even the...
Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Where do you find wisdom? Through a Google search? In a book? I conducted a Google search for wisdom because that is where most people these days try to find things. The top results listed wikipedia and several on-line dictionaries with the definition for the word...
Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
We spent a lot of time with my mother’s best friend Jackie when I was growing up. I always looked up to her and loved her vocabulary. On one occasion, Jackie told me that I was a true instigator. I asked her what that meant and she told me to get the dictionary...
Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
What is discovery? How does it fit in to an enterprise sales process? Why is it important? The answers are best told through a real world story. I was providing sales advisory services to a large software company that had cobbled together a “suite”...