May 9, 2019 | Business Development, Networking, Referral Sales, Sales Leadership, Social Media, Social Selling, Uncategorized
Get out of the weeds. How many balls can you keep in the air at one time? Some business leaders are better jugglers than others, but everyone has their breaking point—or, rather, their dropping point. Juggling priorities is a challenge for every business owner. You’re...
May 2, 2019 | Business Development, Referral Sales, Sales Leadership, Social Selling
Hiding behind technology doesn’t drive sales—THIS WILL. May 5th to 11th is National Small Business Week in the United States. For more than 50 years, the U.S. president has issued a proclamation that dedicates the first full week in May to celebrating America’s...
Apr 29, 2019 | B2B, Business Development, Newsletter, Referral Sales, Sales Leadership, Social Selling
Do your clients want more from you? Would you be surprised to learn that prospects want the same buying experience in their business lives as in their personal lives? I’m not. We all want a stellar customer experience, and we’re pissed when we don’t get it. B2B...
Aug 23, 2018 | Social Selling
A Complete Guide to Putting the “Social” Back in Social Selling Social selling has finally (and dangerously) reached buzzword status. Dangerously, because there are misperceptions about what it means, how to do it, and just as importantly, how not to do it....
Aug 4, 2016 | Social Selling
How can we stay in touch without always being connected? I got blasted on social media. No, it wasn’t someone inviting me to connect and then blasting me with a sales pitch (my usual complaint about bad social media behavior). It was someone critiquing me...
Jul 7, 2016 | Referral Sales, Sales Leadership, Social Selling
A LinkedIn connection is not a sales lead. It happened again. I accepted a LinkedIn invitation from someone I didn’t know, sent a personal response to greet my new connection, and immediately received a cold calling message from someone looking only for lead...