Posts in Sales

Here are some thoughts about the value of adversity in our success.

Does your team have the blues? Time to serve up an Angel’s Cocktail! What’s that?

All the gurus teach you to start your sales outreach at the top of an organization, and then work your way down. “C-Level Selling”. Yet[…]

How do you motivate someone to take action when your service doesn’t do anything visible? What if it just prevents something bad from[…]

“Why are all my sales incentives backfiring?” asked the business owner. Indeed, have you noticed every sales target you set causes an unintended

Ever try to engage someone who is about as talkative as a stump? How about some surefire ways to get them started? 

Years ago, the path to growing sales was straightforward. Hire more salespeople Now, that strategy is disastrously bad. Why?

How frustrating would it be to play a game when the scoreboard is always wrong? That’s what happens when you manage with bad[…]

When we stand still in the technology business, we are going backwards.  Just when we figure things out, the market rolls the dice[…]

Old Timer: “When I started in sales, I had to knock on every single door in my territory” Response: “When you were in[…]