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Experience the Transformative Power of Focus (with my guest expert, Les Hewitt)

Book Reviews, General, Leadership & Management, Productivity / Mike Weinberg

I’ve been noticing how little time executives and salespeople actually spend on their highest-value activities and stated priorities. It sounds silly and it’s certainly nonsensical. If something is a major objective, a priority, or deemed highly-valuable, how in the world does it end up getting less of our time and focus? Even as I typed and now reread that last […]

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HBR Webinar for Executives & Entrepreneurs: Is It Your Leadership & Culture Causing the “Sales Problem?”

Culture, General, Leadership & Management / Mike Weinberg

I didn’t want to write Sales Management. Simplified. I was compelled to write it because of what I was observing in company after company with less than optimal sales results: frustrated executives, overwhelmed, overworked sales managers, and underperforming, confused, poorly led salespeople – many of whom working in anti-sales cultures. To say that I’m glad I

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My Best Practical Tips to Drive NEW SALES in This Powerful Podcast

Audio, General, Getting In, Prospecting, Sales Story, Sales Talent, Social Selling / Mike Weinberg

I love talking New Sales and this incredible interview just posted by Doug Burdett (The Marketing Book Podcast) may be my favorite conversation yet! If you sell in any capacity, lead a sales team, or you’re an executive in a company that needs more New Sales, please invest the time to listen to this powerful conversation.

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Maybe It’s Your Sales Approach Getting You Treated Like Just a Vendor and Commoditized?

Presentations & Proposals, Sales Process, Select / Mike Weinberg

I get it. The “system” seems to be set up to commoditize sellers. There are procurement people with letters after their names that specialize in a special form of torture. Dreaded RFPs. Invitations to come do your Dog and Pony Show or present a capabilities overview. Buyers who seem disinterested in why and how you, your company, and your

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2 Contrarian Tips to Close More Deals Faster Plus an Incredible Online Sales Summit

Sales Process / Mike Weinberg

Several of my favorite go-to sales guru friends and I (the usual gang who’ve being doing webinars together lately) were asked to contribute a session the Sales Kickoff Summit 2016. It’s a HUGE two-day event featuring more than 30 sales experts and we were happy to lend our support, names, and ideas. Here’s the question

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7 Valuable Highlights from a Client Sales Leadership Retreat

Culture, General, Leadership & Management, Sales Story / Mike Weinberg

Last week I had the privilege of joining a company’s management team and key salespeople for their annual leadership retreat held in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. I was impressed with and energized by this company’s leaders and its culture from our first interaction. It was fun working with them to prep for the full-day session they asked

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Not Taught: An Irreverent, Relevant, Bold Wakeup Call from Jim Keenan

Book Reviews, General, Video / Mike Weinberg

I get asked to review more books than I can possible get to, but when the one and only Keenan launched Not Taught: What It Takes to be Successful in the 21st Century that Nobody’s Teaching You, I immediately headed to Amazon to grab a copy. If you don’t know or follow Keenan (yes, he has a first

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7 Commitments I’m Asking of Sales Executives and Salespeople to Increase Sales in 2016

Culture, General, Leadership & Management, Professionalism / Mike Weinberg

Figuring you’ve read enough predictable New Year’s predictions to make you gag and that you’re tired of being pandered to about how to make your resolutions stick, I wanted to offer a different approach to help us maximize sales performance in 2016. Skipping the pleasantries and softening statements and fully expecting to labeled as politically

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Life is Too Short and the Stakes are Too High Not to Tell the Truth

General, Leadership & Management, Sales Talent, Select / Mike Weinberg

How much time and trouble would we save each other if we all committed to being 100 percent truthful 100 percent of the time? It’s a crazy thought, but when you really think about it, it is amazing how often we don’t tell people the truth. Sometimes we are scared. Sometimes just too nice. Or

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Real Sales Issues I’m Tackling with Clients and a Handful of Valuable Learning Opportunities

Book Reviews, General, Leadership & Management, Professionalism, Time blocking / Mike Weinberg

It’s the fall Selling Season and we all running hard. My encouragement is to keep sprinting and finish Selling Season strong! We’re only a few weeks from Thanksgiving in the US and you can rest then. Recently I’ve had conversations with various sales leaders who asked what I’m working on with my eclectic group of

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