2025 Sales Success Starts Now

2025 Sales Success Starts Now

It’s time to start your sales prep for 2025. Try these tactics. There’s an old adage in sales: “If you’re on time, you’re late.” If you’re waiting until January to generate leads for the new year, your team will be way behind by the time we’re singing Auld Lang Syne....
Sales Lessons We Can Learn from the 2024 Olympics

Sales Lessons We Can Learn from the 2024 Olympics

Rusty sales skills won’t win the gold. Gold medals aren’t just handed to Olympic athletes. Commitment to a daily routine and practice separates them from every other athlete out there. It’s the same for your sales team. If you want this to be a game-changing...
Sales Managers: Get Your Heads Out of Your Spreadsheet

Sales Managers: Get Your Heads Out of Your Spreadsheet

Why would you settle for 13%? “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 18 years ago, but I don’t think any sales manager listened, because the vast majority...
Would You Dare to Walk Away from a Sales Opportunity?

Would You Dare to Walk Away from a Sales Opportunity?

Test your integrity quotient to meet your quota…or not. If you regularly read my blog, you know about the PITA client—”pain in the ass” prospects who drain your team’s time, resources, and morale. I’ve made the case many times that salespeople should walk away from a...