Nov 25, 2014 | Referral Sales, Sales Leadership
Here’s what you might have missed from No More Cold Calling this month. Winter is right around the bend, and while the colder temperatures might be a welcome change of pace for some, cold calls are still the bane of every salesperson’s existence. End the year with a...
Nov 20, 2014 | Referral Sales, Sales Leadership, Social Selling
Boomers can’t afford to let Gen Y have the social selling advantage. As a Boomer, I will never use technology like a Millennial. I didn’t grow up with a cell phone as an appendage. But I still manage to leverage technology (very successfully) in my sales...
Nov 18, 2014 | Referral Sales, Sales Leadership
When deals don’t go your way, dust yourself off and go in search of the next one. Remember the sandcastles you built as a child? When you were just getting started, you used wet sand and buckets. But as you got better at building them, they became larger and more...
Nov 13, 2014 | Referral Sales, Sales Leadership
Guest blogger Tris Brown shares some surprising data about how much time sales leaders should spend actually leading. Not too long ago, new sales recruits were given a desk, a phone, a phonebook, an overview of benefits, and instructions for how to complete time...
Nov 11, 2014 | Referral Sales, Sales Leadership
What’s the one thing computers will never do better than salespeople? Computers do many things more effectively and efficiently than humans can, but outside of a few terrifying science-fiction movies, there’s still one thing they can’t do: think for...