It’s Not About You – #2 How great a sin is it when a self-absorbed salesperson bores a dream prospect to tears talking about his company and offerings? I’m guessing I’ve been on calls with about 150 different salespeople and have heard the “sales story” botched in countless ways…too long, irrelevant, unclear, wordy, condescending, lacking

Sales team having too many appointments? Didn’t think so. I hear a lot about the importance of properly qualifying prospects. And I am confused. I’ll admit it right up front; I am probably an extreme contrarian on this topic. Here’s why: if we’ve done our job strategically selecting Target Prospects, then why in the world

When preparing for battle, a critical first step is the strategic selection of targets to attack. Along those lines, how strategic and clearly defined is your Target Prospect List? It sounds like a ridiculous, elementary and unnecessary question. But in my experience, more often than you’d believe, senior and sales management take for granted that

I have strong memories from 1991:  Silence of the Lambs freaked me out, George Bush (41) was silencing Sadaam Hussein in my generation’s first exposure to war (viewed on CNN), and I got to attend Super Bowl XXV in Tampa where my beloved NY Giants handed the poor Buffalo Bills the first of four consecutive