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Beware of Hiring Your Competitor’s Sales People

Hiring sales people from the competition always seems like a no-brainer, but there are many pitfalls with this hiring strategy.…

7 years ago

3 Early Bird Tactics to Uncover New Sales Opportunities

Want to win more sales? Then you need to do everything you can to give yourself an unfair advantage over…

7 years ago

Cold Calling Revisited: What if Sales is Not a Numbers Game?

For years, we’ve been told that sales is a numbers game. To be successful, all you needed to do was…

7 years ago

The Sales Person’s One-Word Job Description

Everyone is searching for answers on how to sell in a down economy. Many feel that the sales game has…

7 years ago

Why Are You Trying To Kill Me?

Said the Cold Call To The Socialite Recent headlines about AC/DC’s drummer’s brush with the law got me thinking –…

7 years ago

LinkedIn Is a Waste Of a Salesperson’s Time!

There are many misconceptions about LinkedIn. It’s not just for job searches or networking. It is a unique lead generation…

7 years ago

Why My LinkedIn Profile Isn’t Good Enough

I have a confession to make. I haven’t updated my LinkedIn profile* for 18 months. I know. Shame on me.…

7 years ago

One Simple Way to Instantly Have Better Sales Conversations [Video]

Everywhere you look these days, experts are proclaiming that people are 60%—or more—of the way through their decision process before…

7 years ago

Decision Makers Want To Deal With Decisive People

A question I regularly ask when working with a group of reps on prospecting, is “who do you call on?”…

7 years ago

Is the Quota You Assign to Salespeople Meaningless?

When quotas are not directly tied to earnings, salespeople pay little mind to them. Quotas become nothing more than background…

7 years ago