Sales
As a sales and leadership expert I’ve learned that there are two Key Questions to Grow Your Business. Watch this video to learn what those questions are and how it can impact your business and your life.
As a sales and leadership expert I’ve learned there are three critical things a CEO must do on a daily basis:
As a sales and leadership expert, I want to ask you a question critical to your business outcomes: Do you insist your that your sales people and customer service people rely on scripts or do they use agendas?
As a sales and leadership expert, I see companies that struggle to succeed with marketing and the reason they fail is they’re not concentrating on the most important aspect. Truly successful marketing organizations capitalize on pull marketing….that pulls in leads and new customers for sales people to respond to. Today there are lots of free technology available that will help you enhance your pull marketing. Watch this video to learn more.
As a sales and leadership expert, I want to take a look at the difference between listening and hearing, and the IMPACT true listening can have on your personal and professional relationships.
As a sales and leadership expert, I have worked with sales executives that want to outsell their competition, but if you are still focusing on transactional conversations, you will never achieve this goal. It’s not about competing its about creating a better outcome. The only way to achieve this is to have an enterprise conversation versus a transactional conversation. Watch this video to learn how YOU can outsell your competition.
As a sales and leadership expert, I often find that leaders and managers are focused on the symptoms, not the underlying condition. They obsess over common workplace problems, but underneath those problems is the issue of a lack of motivation.
As a sales and leadership expert, I have worked with sales executives on having enterprise conversations with their customers. Enterprise conversations go way beyond price. The enterprise conversation is about how much money and time one will save over the lifetime of a product. It is about gaining better utilization, efficiency and overall results. If you have the right enterprise conversation, the price of your product/service will often be the last thing you talk about. Watch this video to see how to have an effective enterprise conversation.
As a sales and leadership expert I am inundated by companies who are struggling to find and penetrate new markets. In order to penetrate new markets, you must be able to impact their results beyond what the competition is currently doing. Watch this video to see how you can easily penetrate new markets and grow your sales!
As a sales and leadership expert, I find people working mostly “in” their business (such as making sales calls, fulfilling orders), this will only get you so far. To maximize your business you must also work “on” your business (strategizing, coaching and leading). When you work “in” and “on” your business you will gain velocity and maximum growth. And, you’ll be making the greatest IMPACT on your markets, customers and employees/colleagues.
Do you know that sometimes you have to go slow to go fast? Recently, I installed a new productivity software program. And like many of you, I figured I knew immediately what I had to do, so I didn’t bother reading the instructions. After two painful hours of trying to get the software to work…
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As we’ve all seen for the last year or two, there’s been a lot of shoplifting. A pack of thieves breaking into stores, stealing massive amounts of merchandise, and leaving before the cops come. If they’re caught, they’re back on the streets in a couple of minutes. Shoplifting has gotten to such a high degree…
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When I think of sales success, I think of a Banyan tree. Look at this tree. It is so magnificent. But look at the integrated network of roots. It’s amazing how it grows. Now, here’s what’s special about a Banyan tree. It’s not like normal trees that have one trunk coming down, and it’s not…
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I want you to meet Alex. Alex is a van driver who picked me and a few of my colleagues up from the hotel in Albuquerque this weekend to take us to the airport. It was a seven-minute ride. During the ride, Alex asked us if we had traveled to many different cities and ordered…
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If you truly want to keep your competitors out of your accounts, you must become part of the inner woven fabric of your client’s organization. Consider that loose piece of thread sticking out of the bottom of your sweater, and you start pulling it. All of a sudden, you inadvertently pull apart the entire sweater.…
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A few years ago, I was meeting with Steve Forbes in the Forbes building in his private library. The meeting was to discuss the presentation he was about to give to the National Speakers Association that I was president of. Rather, it was to get him to agree to give that presentation. What struck me in…
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As you create your sales plan for 2024, what’s the one issue you must pay special attention to? That one issue is your ideal customer profile, because that’s going to determine whether or not you gain velocity in your sales efforts. Picture business 2012: I was just voted as the Vice President of the National…
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In the early ‘90s, I trademarked the phrase “The Question Man™.” I believed then, as I believe now, that the answers to your success lie in the questions that you ask. At that time, I had a great client, Hertz Equipment Rental, that rented backhoes. It was a division of Hertz Rental Car Corporation. The VP of Sales was…
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When times are tough, and the flow of customers into your business is slowing down to a drip, what’s more important: marketing or sales? I had that conversation yesterday with the CEO I was coaching. He sells very high-end custom furniture. Because of the economy, he was complaining that the flow of traffic into his…
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Does anything in life come easy for us? Yes and No. When we engage in activities aligned with our strengths and skills, they often come easily to us. On the other hand, tasks that we dislike or lack proficiency in can be challenging. However, that is not what I’m talking about here. Recently, I had…
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