Not sure why it took working full-time for 35 years before pulling the trigger to make this happen, but I am so thankful that I finally listened to advisors, mentors, friends, and peers telling me to do it. I recently completed my first-ever sabbatical. 30 days off… The entire experience was wonderful, instructive, life-giving, convicting,
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I do. I wish all the wonderful sounding things we read from supposed “experts” online were true. Wouldn’t it be great if the perfect new sales tool they were pitching to us cured all that ails our sales? And how much easier would it be to fill a pipeline with legitimate sales opportunities if all
With the 3rd OutBound Sales Conference less than three months away, I keep getting asked why OutBound has become so popular and what makes it unique. My answer is threefold. First, it’s the very specific focus. Every session is designed to help individual sellers and sales team leaders increase effectiveness in these areas: Prospecting. Pipeline.
I have worked with way too many salespeople whose single biggest challenge is that they live in reactive mode. They sit and they wait. They wait for a lead. They wait for a customer to raise its hand and make a need known. Instead of proactively working their strategic target account list, they wait to
I love what I do and can’t believe that I wake up everyday and get to do my favorite thing in business — helping salespeople and sales teams win more New Sales. The past few years have been an amazing journey and I couldn’t be more thankful to those who have supported my content and
Fridays are good for reflection and I have a few thoughts to share while flying home from Newark after leading a workshop for regional sales managers. We are now halfway between U.S. Labor Day and Thanksgiving – the Fall Selling Season. I see many sellers truly sprinting hard, locked-in on advancing every opportunity in their
In my last post, I made the bold statement that in order to become more productive at work AND to improve our quality of life, we must become more selfish (in a good way), and more focused on the very few things that truly move the needle – that increase productivity. Productivity, or the lack thereof,
Most of us are overwhelmed, overworked, and most definitely over-connected. As a consequence, the salespeople, sales leaders, and even the senior executives I work with, tend to be under-focused, under-disciplined, under-rested, under-vacationed, and unfortunately, under-productive. I get it. There is always something urgent, and there are what feels like a ridiculous number of requests and
Those who read my content know that it’s a pretty darn rare day when I venture into the land of sales tools. And that’s very intentional. There are so many tool providers and an abundance of qualified sales experts (two of my favorites are Miles Austin and Nancy Nardin) reviewing and recommending tools, that I typically stay
Where is Your Strategic, Finite Target Account List? Selecting “Targets” is the first step in the New Sales Driver framework outlined in New Sales. Simplified. Selecting Targets is first for a reason. It’s one of the very few chances we (in sales) have to be strategic. If we’re really honest, most of what we in
Sometimes the solution to our sales problem is so simple that we can’t see it. I am pretty sure that this is one of those cases. What We Want We (sellers and sales leaders) ALL crave a full, healthy (fat), balanced, moving pipeline of sales opportunities. What We Typically Do Unfortunately, most of us in
Sales Friends, I get it. We want to be liked. We want to be seen as responsive. We want to show customers that we care and that we listen and that we can follow instructions… All of those things are wonderful. But there’s just one little problem: very often defaulting to our prospect’s (or their
This is Trevor. He’s the senior executive of a company he founded in the UK. He’s also an amazing human being. I think it is fair to say that after the few days we just spent together at our Supercharge Your Sales Leadership event in Atlanta, our relationship crossed from client-coach to friends. The way
