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The Most Foolish Thing a Salesperson Can Do is Complain That Their Price Is Too High

Salespeople and Sales Leaders, I am asking for 39 seconds. That’s it.  Just listen to the first 39 seconds of this episode. Even if you’ve sworn to yourself that you’d never listen to a podcast, I’m pleading with you to give this 39 seconds of your attention because this is one of the biggest issues …

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How You Approach These 2 Sales Challenges Will Define 2022

I know you’re reading or hearing it, sales leaders…  Whether it is the alarm bells of doom from LinkedIn sales “experts” or your own people perfecting their new excuses, these two sales challenges will define 2022:  Supply chain issues  Inflation  These very real (and somewhat unprecedented) issues face just about every sales organization right now.  …

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Obedient Order-Taker and Yes-Men/Women Salespeople Don’t Win More Business

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 …

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A Great Book, a Practical Podcast, and a Reminder to Power-up Your Sales Story

As we scramble to finish up Q3 strong and enter the homestretch of 2021 with solid momentum, here are a few thoughts and resources to help… POWERING-UP YOUR SALES STORY: Earlier this week while helping a great client’s sales team prep and practice for trade show booth sales conversations, I was blown away by the …

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If Sales Managers Would Do for Their People What My Golf Coach Just Did for Me

A few weeks back I had a powerful, game-changing experience on the golf course that translates perfectly from golf to sales and sales management. Those who follow me on Instagram have enjoyed (or poked fun at) my relatively new passion for golf and my desire (struggle) to take my game to a new level. It’s …

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6 Focus Areas to Maximize Second-Half Sales Results

Greetings from Seat 2A. I’m departing PHX after leading a sales management session in Scottsdale for a large company. My thoughts are still racing from this full-day session and I can’t get the interaction with these hungry sales managers out of my mind. As I replay the highlights of the workshop and these managers’ takeaways, …

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So, This Is Effective Selling but an Authentic Phone Call to Another Human Is a Waste?

I had the pleasure of speaking live, IN-PERSON this past weekend at a convention in Fort Worth. It’s hard to even put into the words the joy, fun, energy, and impact we all felt from being TOGETHER! While I LOVED leading a full-day Saturday sales management workshop for executives and sales leaders (and speaking of …

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Are You the Hero or the Hero-Maker of Your Sales Team?

In this new episode Mike confronts sales leaders with this very straightforward question: Are you the hero of your sales team or are you the hero-maker? While the question is simple, its answer has enormous implications. This topic is one of the most prevalent sales leadership issues today – one that not only damages culture, diminishes …

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A Proven and Powerful Opportunity for Sales Leaders to Reset. Refocus. Recharge.

After a long, long wait… I. Could. Not. Be. More. Excited. to announce that in-person SUPERCHARGE YOUR SALES LEADERSHIP EVENTS are back! And there couldn’t be a better time as we enter this new/next (coming out of Covid) phase.  Sales leaders, NOW is the time to reset our mindset, refocus our priorities, and recharge ourselves …

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