Sales

How To Guarantee Success When Promoting a Top Producer Into A Manager’s Role

By ronkarr.Admin | December 20, 2016 |

As a sales and leadership expert, I see many times companies promoting top performing sales executives to management positions and they fail! Why do they fail? They fail because they didn’t have the IMPACT necessary to lead a team and the reason for that is they have not transformed from being a sales exec to being a sales leader. This post will share with you how top producing sales executives can make this transformation seamlessly and succeed!

VIDEO: Turning Crisis and Conflict Into Golden Opportunities

By ronkarr.Admin | December 15, 2016 |

As a sales and leadership expert Ron explains how you can use conflict to grow your business, When you help someone through conflict, they are open to helping you because you just helped them! Watch the video to learn more!

Learn How New Ideas Can Help You Break Into New Markets With Impact!

By ronkarr.Admin | December 13, 2016 |

As a sales and leadership expert Ron examines how to impact a new market with your product and services by creating better results.

VIDEO: It Only Takes One Person to Improve a Relationship with Impact!

By ronkarr.Admin | December 8, 2016 |

As a sales and leadership expert Ron discusses how you can have a greater impact on your relationships. It doesn’t take two people to improve a relationship. Only One!

How Impact can Significantly Increase Your Sales!

By ronkarr.Admin | December 6, 2016 |

To Achieve Significant Increases in sales, productivity, market share, etc. you need to be able to powerfully IMPACT those who rely on your products and services. As a sales and leadership expert Ron discusses the formula for achieving IMPACT: Mindset + Insight + Motivation x Velocity = IMPACT.

VIDEO: Significantly Grow Sales Through Futuristic Thinking

By ronkarr.Admin | December 1, 2016 |

As a sales and leadership expert Ron explains how your Big Idea can make an Significant IMPACT on your Sales! We all have that BIG Idea.  But the question is do you know how to use vs. lose it.  Watch this video to see how you can capitalize on your next Big Idea!

Listening vs. Hearing

By ronkarr.Admin | November 29, 2016 |

As a sales and leadership expert Ron explains the difference between listening and hearing.

VIDEO: Welcome

By ronkarr.Admin | November 23, 2016 |

Scripts vs. Agendas

By ronkarr.Admin | November 22, 2016 |

As a sales and leadership expert Ron explains why scripts lead to failure and agendas lead to customer satisfaction.

Changing People’s Reactions

By ronkarr.Admin | November 17, 2016 |

As a sales and leadership expert Ron shares why it’s important for leaders to change their initial reactions in order to change other people’s actions.

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Go Slow to Go Fast

By John Lusher / April 18, 2024 /

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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Thinking Outside the Box: How a Shoe Store Owner Solved the Shoplifting Problem

By John Lusher / April 4, 2024 /

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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Mastering Cross-Selling: Insights from Nature’s Banyan Tree

By John Lusher / March 21, 2024 /

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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Closing the 2-Minute Sale

By John Lusher / March 14, 2024 /

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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How to become part of the inner woven fabric of your client’s organization

By John Lusher / March 7, 2024 /

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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The 4 Questions You Can’t Afford to Leave Unanswered to Close the Deal

By John Lusher / February 22, 2024 /

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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The Crucial Factor Missing from Your 2024 Sales Plan

By John Lusher / November 30, 2023 /

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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The Answer to Success is in the Questions You Ask

By John Lusher / October 19, 2023 /

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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Surviving Slow Customer Flow: Is It Marketing or Sales That Holds the Key to Success?

By John Lusher / September 21, 2023 /

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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Is There an Easy Path to Success?

By John Lusher / August 24, 2023 /

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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