Mar 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
Strategic selling is like a complex symphony. And the conductor of the orchestra is the sales rep. There are various inflection points in a complex sales cycle and good sales reps understand when they need introduce the appropriate “instruments” within...
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
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
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
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...