Jan 30, 2020 | Sales Leadership
If I can do it, you can do it. “You won’t get to second unless you take your foot off first.” That’s a saying in American baseball. The bases are 90 feet apart, and unless you’re standing on one of them, you can be tagged out. Successful players must get out of their...
Jan 23, 2020 | Sales Leadership
Successful sales execution requires more than sales technology. “Joanne, the challenge is always in the execution.” That’s what a client told me more than 20 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it. Companies today purchase the latest and greatest sales technology,...
Jan 16, 2020 | Referral Sales
Here are five important steps to make your team referral sales experts. If salespeople were self-motivated, they wouldn’t need sales managers or metrics. Yep, most of us are lazy and lack discipline. I’m including myself here. It’s a lonely world for account...
Jan 9, 2020 | Sales Leadership
Poor leadership will cost you $3.5 million per sales manager. “Message to Management: Your job is to get the rocks out of the road for your salespeople so they can do what they were hired to do—sell!” I wrote that 15 years ago in my first book, NO MORE COLD CALLING:...