You remember Christmas as a kid right? Crazy! First there’s Halloween. Then there’s Bonfire Night, Then you got the gentle reminder to be extra specially good because Santa was listening. You knew it was nearly time when you’d be wrapping Christmas gifts for all your Aunties and Uncles. Wrapping, and writing Christmas cards, picking a…
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Sales Process Audit and Sales Analysis to drive continuous sales improvement in ambitious B2B sales teams – high impact, giving you the focus you need to make the changes to create stability and growth within your business
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Engaging the perfect prospect right at the beginning of the sales process is one of the most fundamentally overlooked elements of a successful sales process which concludes in an order. I see too many new business development efforts, lead generation research and sales forecasts fall part because of poor initial sales qualification. This means 4 key things:…
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Sales Coaching via Skype – Sales Leaders & Business Owner Managers Sales coaching via Skype is designed to fit in with your busy life, your demanding and every changing business priorities, as well as the fundamental need to generate high revenue, consistent sales results and profits. To support you in a achieving your business goals…
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Training Needs Analysis for Sales People Training Needs Analysis is so much more than you might think. Many successful sales teams will undertake a Sales Training Needs Analysis maybe once a year. Some maybe only when they think about buying sales training in….sometimes never. But anyone looking for Continuous Sales Improvements uses Sales Training Needs Analysis…
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Cold Callers: In a world that’s awash with information, then B2B Cold Callers have no excuse for mindless dials. Yet still I’m getting cold calls. 5-6 a day. Whilst I’ll fight the urge, for the moment anyway, to name and shame those firms spewing money down the drain because of their cold calling strategy, I…
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Business Development – Fly or Die? There is no getting away from it, unless you are in a very specialist market, new business development and new business is the life blood of any business. No matter how good your business is, if you’re relying on simply servicing existing customers then by definition your business may…
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Business Development Coaching for Ambitious B2B Sales Professionals Business Development coaching is powerful, strategic and one of the fastest ways to bring about a positive change. Sales professionals will engage in coaching either for themselves or the team for many reasons, but here are some of the most common: The sales results are typically ok,…
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Sales Insight – Do You Have It? Every business leader craves real, meaningful and timely sales insight. If you’re still struggling with this then check our Sales Insight Audit out. If you’ve got your sales management information all sorted and relevant then carry on reading, because, quite simply, you’re on the fast track to continuous sales improvement….
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In Sales YOU have as much chance of winning as losing. Where you engage in meaningful and relevant sales activity… You have as much chance of getting a customer as getting a rejection. You have as much chance of succeeding as failing. Your chances are equal. Need more proof? The Equal Odds Rule was published…
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Risk, Value and Price Risk, Value and Price, and how your explore these areas with the buyer are the cornerstones are sales success. Or sales failure. The relationship between risk, value and price in the eyes of the buyer/prospect is complex. That’s a fact. The relationship between risk, value and price in the eyes of…
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Turbo Charged Sales – Designed to Help You Fill Your Sales Pipeline with High Value, High Quality, Well Qualified Sales Opportunities that Convert Perfect for: Sales Appointment Setters, Lead Generators, Field Sales, New Business Sales Execs, Sales Managers, Sales Coaches and Sales Trainers. TurboCharged Sales is now available…helping you to smash your sales goals, embed…
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Fixed Price Sales Training Courses | B2B Sales Training | Book Now Fixed Price Sales Training – B2B Sales Training Courses – Train up to 12 sales people for just £1,450 Book your date ASAP….and get next month off to a great sales start…because that’s how quickly you’ll see improvements if you use the sales skills, techniques and…
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Sales Pipeline Management: Your Sales Crystal Ball Sales Pipeline Management is the key to predictable and stable sales performance. That means sales growth, sales security, certainty and the ability for any business to produce accurate sales forecasts. So today, whether you’re a sales leader or a sales person, let’s think about your sales pipeline. How do…
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Changing Times Sales and the art of selling is changing….just like everything else. New theories, practices and reworked ideas come around again and again. Some of them stick, some of them fade. Many work, some don’t. One thing that’s been around for ages, but always there in the background, as something that good (and great)…
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3 Easy Steps to Being a Sales Detective Sales Performance and Sales Results Matter! Making sure that the key metrics are on point all through the month is key, plus having the skills and insights to reverse any decline and accelerate any upward trends is vital. But, before that you’ll need to learn how to…
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Sales Manager I regret to inform you that as a business we’ve taken the very difficult decision to let you go. We will honour the obligations laid out in our contract and as such, hope you will do the same as a Sales Manager in the business. I would like to take this opportunity to…
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Sales Performance – What Do You Really, Really Want? Sales Performance – the puzzle for anyone in sales management. Bigger? More? Faster? But what does Sales Performance means to you, and how do you measure it? I ask this question a lot. Every business and sales leader I know wants better sales performance. Every single…
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Competitive strategy allows you lots of options. Competitive strategy takes more than simply dropping the price. Discover how lowering price is not the best differentiator when you’re trying to boost sales, profits and market share, and why simply distracting the market with cheaper prices is the last thing you should do.
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Managing poor sales performance takes effort. Much more effort than managing sales performance when the team are operating in line with expectations. That’s why it’s always ideally more sensible to work hard to keep the sales team performing to target, as opposed to let things slip. That’s really hard work, I know. High performance sales…
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How to Boost Sales Revenues and Profits – 10 Ways You Could Be Leaving Money with the Buyer… You’ll know I’m a keen advocate of delivering exceptional value – just check out these two posts to see what ‘delivering value’ is and what it could mean for your business if you decide to go down…
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How to Build Value – answer that question, specifically for your business, and the sky really is the limit. You’ve seen the figures, the figures that claim 57% of the buyer’s decision making is done BEFORE they invite the sales person in… Whether you believe them or not, the truth is clear… If you’re trying to get…
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How to Increase Price, Win Business and Boost Profits… Not a catchy title but it definitely covers three of the issues I’m most often asked to sort out. I thought this week that I’d address the issues by looking purely through the ‘How to Increase Price’ lens. To help I’ve outlined three case studies that will guide you…
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Building a sales funnel is not high on most sales people’s lists of things to do. Primarily because when it comes to chasing leads and chasing business – some sales people fail to see the wood for the trees.. Which means much of the time and energy poured into sales prospecting is just a waste…
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Sales Training Courses – Monthly – Sheffield…for you if you’ve ever wondered how high performance sales teams get the sales results they do…
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Your sales coach is on your side when you challenge yourself to be the best sales person, sales leader, sales specialist you can be, for yourself, your team and your clients. High accountability, results focused, on your side to get the tough jobs done together
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The Sales Improvement Workshop UK 2020 – giving your sales team the sales skills, habits, activities and daily sales success plans to increase sales results, boost activity, motivation and drive. B2B sales training to increase sales results for ambitious sales teams
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Sales Audit is your first step to gaining control of your sales function. It’s the building block of any sales improvement effort, and the basis for unlocking your businesses full sales potential
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Tell me your sales ambitions, the results you want to achieve with your sales team and I’ll show you the habits, activities, skills and mindset you’ll need to achieve your full sales potential
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Interim Sales Director Solutions – high impact, practical and proven results orientated sales management solutions – part-time, flexible support to help you through periods of change, sales growth and sales transformation. Multi-functional from advisory role, sounding board, to hands on sales leadership.
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Sales Strategy to build the sales function to deliver the sales results to match your sales ambitions. And to continuously drive sales improvement, sales efficiency and sales effectiveness
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Sales Results and Sales Performance – Over 135 opportunities to get it right or get it wrong . OVER 135!!
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hy Start Up’s Rock at Sales and Business Development Some of the best sales and business development lessons I’ve learned have come from watching start up’s,
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Where’s the Best Place You Can Think of to Hide a Tree? There’s no great mystery. No mind games… The answer is, of course, in a forest…right in the middle of lots of other trees. Many identical trees. All looking vaguely similar. They may be different species of trees, with different characteristics, varying behaviours in different seasons,…
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