The Poker Selling System

Teaching salespeople how to use and balance the four communication methods is important. The Poker Selling System came to mind when I was losing at Poker. This playing card system will work for you and increase your sales team's results!

Sales Management Tip #9; Do Not Let Your Sales People Act Like Children

As a sales manager for the company you need to make sure that your salespeople on your sales force do not act like children. Many people believe that children are the world

Sales Management and Managing Sales

For those engaged in sales management and trying to control a group of self-starter type sales people you can just imagine how hard it is. In all the commotion, chaos and controversy they have to manage in shear terror of handling all that is coming at them.

Influential Authority

Power is situational. In what situations do you have the most power? When do you have the least?

Sales Recruit Failures Cost $000,000s

Sales tracking limits disappointing sales results. Sales staff members should be knocking on doors. When this isn't happening, Sales Management probably has too much on their plate and off goes the sales staff, pretty much on their own.

Sales Managers: You'll Set More Appointments With Better Call Analysis

In this article, Dr. Gary S. Goodman, best-selling author and Fortune 1000 consultant, points out some of the lesser known but especially valuable things managers should track when their crews are prospecting for appointments and sales.

How to Run a Sales Blitz

Follow these five elements to increase the success of your next sales blitz.

Are Self-Limiting Beliefs Constraining Your Sales Team?

Allowing self-limiting beliefs to constrain performance, will in turn limit sales results because like everyone, salespeople hold stubbornly to private beliefs about themselves, clients, markets, competition, and even the economy, beliefs that can have an enormous impact, either positive or negative, on their sales achievement levels.

How To Conduct A Successful Performance Appraisal

Most organisations review the performance of their employees on a regular basis, usually annually. The term appraisal however, is disliked by many, conjuring up images of a superior passing judgement in a god like fashion. The answer must be to establish good relationships between both.

Don't Outsource Inside Sales

Insource it! There are lots of companies out there offering outsourced telesales and lead generation on a pay per lead basis. Indeed, our own experience in the past in having performed those sorts of services for clients shows that there’s a large demand for that service. A better way is to bring that function inside your company where you can more tightly manage and control it.

Reputation Expectations

When people are aware of the good opinions others have about them, they want to live up to those opinions. This tendency is why we act out the roles that are assigned to us. If we receive praise, we want to be worthy of that praise.

Underlying Keys to Motivation

Motivation starts with vision. In other words, people need to believe that they will succeed in what you are motivating them to do.

Sales Performance Planning

Does your company have a good sales performance planning process? Are your people on your sales team fully benchmarked against a measurable set of annual goals? Do they understand exactly what it is that they’re tasked with over the next year, to drive revenue growth for your company?

Developing Sales Discipline: Here's What It Means To You!

In an earlier article I asked whether selling is more of a skill or a discipline. My take on it: It comes down to about 80% discipline, and 20% skill. Some people took umbrage with my view, probably because they want to glorify this fine occupation of ours, making it seem difficult, and therefore somehow more professional. But the real difficulty is summoning the discipline to do what has already been proven, in millions upon millions of transactions, over many decades, to get buyers to buy.