After spending ten weeks on the road in Q1 (mostly doing sessions for sales kickoff meetings), it’s great to be back home. I’ve been looking forward to some office time, catching up with clients, and the chance to finally put together a handful of new engagements. It’s only midday Tuesday and I just wrapped up
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I’m tired of hearing sales predictions for the new year and frankly don’t really care what supposed “experts” think is going to happen. So instead of prognosticating, it seemed way more valuable to simply offer 20 Tips to help you absolutely blow away your competition and your goals in 2020. I suggest printing this list and reading it
Sales Friends,How is there less than a week till Christmas and only two till New Year’s?It’s a favorite, crazy, and certainly unique time of year. Somehow we manage to combine sprinting and shopping, partying and planning, worshipping and wasting, and recapping and reflecting all within these short few weeks!I feel like I’m already doing all
I love helping individual salespeople and sales teams become more proficient at prospecting almost as much as I love to laugh at the nonsense being preached by the “prospecting is dead” crowd.And while most of the jokers peddling their quick fixes and supposed replacements for traditional prospecting have been quieted, there are still plenty out
I was so impacted by POSITIVE and PRODUCTIVE people this week that it seemed more valuable to share these stories with you than to write a post focusing on sales or sales leadership best practices.From my super-positive client sales team, to the internet sales manager to the restauranteur in San Antonio, from my rockstar daughter overcoming two
This past Tuesday and Wednesday were quite possibly the two most satisfying days since I launched the current version of my firm nine years ago. Not sure I’ve ever had more fun doing what I do!I love leading private sessions for individual companies, but there was something truly magical that took place having executives and
I received a text message earlier this week from a senior executive that further reinforced what I’ve been reminding sellers lately:You don’t win deals by scoring “obedience points,” and just because your prospect or customer requests pricing or a proposal, that doesn’t mean that it’s the right time or in your best interest to provide
I could fill an entire book with the takeaways from the two weeks my wife and I spent in Italy, but I’ll spare you and restrain myself to just two posts. It was truly an incredible time and I left with so many life, leadership, and sales lessons.Observation #1: You and Your Business Will Not
Sometimes when we’re struggling or in a slump, encouraging words from a teammate or coach can have more impact than we realize – and certainly be more valuable than “advice.”I was away the past few weeks, and with my beloved Cardinals having been swept out of the playoffs by the Nationals, didn’t have much reason
I am posting this to encourage you to keep going. Don’t tire or grow weary. We are exactly halfway through the Fall Selling Season.Stay focused. Keep pushing. Sell now. Rest later.This is THE time to not only ensure you finish this year strong, but also to plant seeds and create new opportunities filling your pipeline
I just wrapped up an online meeting coaching a sales team on the keys to creating more sales opportunities and we went deep on prospecting. One of the topics that most resonated with these sales hunters was the importance of our mindset and attitude.In this one-minute video, I share that it’s absolutely critical how we
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
