Archive for Sales

Drive By Selling is Dead. It’s all About Scale

  Remember the old days of drive by selling? You’d roll up on a prospect, (by phone, or car, or

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Wanting You vs Wanting Them

Yes, there are companies who desperately want a product. They have to have it. They can’t do business without it. Their customers

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The Year of the Expert and The Information Sale

I used the phrase, “information sale” in a post a while back. I’ve been thinking about that term for quite

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Does Your Sales Organization Suck?

. . . Or is it pretty good? We all have a pretty good idea if our sales team is

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Why Do I Work Here?

Anthony Iannarino over at The Sales Blog has a great post up today. He talks about the correlation between confidence and cold

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Good Closers are Bad Sales People

Yup, I said it.  Good closers are bad sales people. The better a “closer” is, as defined by traditional definitions,

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The Most Important Thing a Sales Person Can Do in 2012

The best thing a sales person can do in 2012 is start a blog. Yup, that’s what I said. Start

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The Best Thing Sales Leadership Can do in 2012

    The beginning of the year in sales always starts with a number. Then it moves to getting to

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Don’t Make Big Changes?

You want big changes at work, with your customers, or at home? Don’t make one big change, change a lot

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5 Ways Companies Fail Their Sales Teams

Sales people are gladiators. They are independent fighters for the company, expected to fight the fight with whatever tools they

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