Sales Reps who are really Order-Takers won’t convert at the level they should with buyers who need to speak with industry experts who add value, show a deeper buyer understanding and who have the status of trusted adviser. Consultative selling, solution selling, being an educator, leader, creative source for the buyer is exactly what order takers fail to deliver. What’s having order-takers in your sales team costing you?
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Small Business Development Corporation – Help for growing businesses, the small business development agency offers you sales and business development support so you can grow and retain control of the business
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Sales Innovation Disruption sessions are designed to shake up your thinking so you can do the same to your sector. Are you tired of losing business? Fed up with discounting? Genuinely struggling to educate your prospects as to why they should buy from you rather than your competitors? Then join us for one day and…
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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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What’s Your Sales Why? Everyone knows sales isn’t just about your product, your service, your money back guarantee etc…it’s about so much more. It’s also about you, the sales person. Sure people buy from people is a very old cliche, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true. So my question to you is – what…
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Sales Pipeline Management: Your Sales Crystal Ball or Your Worst Nightmare Sales Pipeline Management is the key to predictable and stable sales performance. A sales pipeline can be the very biggest source of comfort and joy or your biggest nightmare. There is a massive relieve from knowing your sales pipeline is stable because that means…
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Sales lead generation is a bug bear in any sales team. Every single sales guy in the world today wants the hot leads, the warm data…yet few of them realise that they are sitting on the hottest leads around. If you work in a sales environment where you are selling more than one product then…
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Strategy and Sales Business Plans – Questioning the Reality Strategy Overload, Strategy BS and Strategy Words Without Meaning!! I’ve seen it all over the last 4 months. I spent three weeks in summer looking through some very ambitious sales strategy and business plans for a company that has huge ambition and even bigger potential. Huge potential….
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Sales Conversion Rates: The Ultimate Sales Metric…or is it? Lots of sales leaders and sales people monitor their sales conversion rates since it’s a good top line indicator as to how things are going…from staying steady to gently increasing or, heavens forbid, heading south. But, I also know some firms who don’t pay that much…
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Filling the Sales Funnel? That’s someone else’s job right? Sales Funnel Truth. Experienced sales people and sales leaders know lots of things about sales and how to sell. But they forget stuff too…we all do. And you and I get rusty at the things we don’t do regularly, so if you’re in sales then listen up….
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Why Conduct Sales Audits? Sales Audits are vital if you’re serious about managing sales growth, building an environment for sales success and cultivating a continuous sales improvement culture. Some see the sales audit as a starting point for their sales improvement journey, others see it as a health check, giving them confidence that they’re on…
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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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Your Sales Process – What’s It Really Costing You? I hate waste. I especially hate waste in the sales process because it just costs so much money and wasted time, talent and resource…and don’t get me started on the opportunity costs. It’s criminal. If I tell you the cost of running an inefficient sales process…
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Prospect Sales Meeting – Wake Up! Your prospective buyer is NOT here to entertain and educate you during a sales meeting. You might wish they were, but they’re just not. Surprisingly, some sales people haven’t cottoned on to this yet. That has some disastrous results, like: Prospects runs the sales meeting! Your agenda gets hijacked by the prospect!…
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How to Improve Sales Performance: The Friday Sales Rant! You’d be surprised what businesses will do to improve sales performance. You’d be surprised the lengths they’ll go to, the resources they’ll commit and the efforts they’ll expend all in an effort to improve sales performance. Selling their soul? No…but not far off. So, why, why, why,…
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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 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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Sales Results and Sales Performance – Over 135 opportunities to get it right or get it wrong . OVER 135!!
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