Developing Your Successor-The Mentoring Process

This article is about succession throughout the organization. The future of your company depends on the quality of your management team. You are only as good as the people you surround yourself with.

What's on The Menu Today?

A restaurant is good example of a “company” that is dealing with the dynamics of consumer demands...The next question is; what is on the menu? This is a question all sales organizations are dealing with...

Game, Set and Match

Hunting for prospects is a sales role, narrowing the focus of the hunt for sales to match the business profile is sales managements role. Maintaining a focus on the ideal profitability characteristics for salespeople is critical to success in any businesses sales program.

Motivate Your Sales and Marketing Team using this New NLP Game

Using subtle NLP observations and techniques you will be able to make profound changes in yourself and others to improve your life, sales and leadership skills. A step-by-step guide of how to motivate your sales team and yourself.

How to Develop a High Performance Sales Team

In a series entitled Developing the High Performance Sales Team we will look at the aspects of a direct sales team that can easily be changed to give measurable improvement to your KPIs.

Avoiding the Customers You Don't Want: The 10 Warning Signs of Trouble

All customers are not created equal. Some will return rich rewards. Others simply drain our time, money and talent. Discover the 10 signals of customers it's best to avoid. From the author of Writing Copy for Dummies.

Sales Appointment Planning

This is arguably the hardest thing you will ask a salesperson to do, the part of the job they really hate

Proposed Business Opportunity Rules and Mandatory Disclosures

All franchise companies have mandatory pre-sale disclosures to all buyers and in many states there are required disclosures for Business Opportunities, but not all states. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing separating

Which is Better – Hire a Salesperson or Invest in a Sales Assistant?

What does it cost to hire a good salesperson? Many companies spend about one fourth the annual salary of a salesperson on job placement. They spend another fourth on sales training before the salesperson becomes effective and efficient. A sales assistant is completely different than the investment of a salesperson.

How To Stop Sales Mis-Hires

Just yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with a very seasoned CEO of a technology service provider who came to us in order to do a recruiting project for a new sales person. He came to us is because he's gone through four sales hires on his own and none of them have actually produced anything for his company. As we sat down to talk about this he sheepishly admitted that this had cost him millions of dollars of lost revenue and opportunity cost as a result of not getting the sales hiring process right.

The Eight Reasons Why Salespeople Fail

The responsibility for ensuring that every member of the sales team is successful, lies entirely with management so what are the eight reasons why sales people fail?

Sales Management - What's Involved? Part 2

Management, and particularly sales management, operates on and obtains its results from the staff that are managed. This clearly puts emphasis on the behavioural skills required to promote good human relations and helpful attitudes.

The Use of Attraction Will Empower Your Sales Team

We have all had the experience of feeling an instant connection or bond with someone after just a few seconds of being in their presence. This is the Law of Connectivity. We have probably all met someone whom we instantly did not like and did not want to be around. This is caused by a lack of connectivity and usually takes only a few seconds to manifest itself. The Law of Connectivity states that the more we feel connected to, part of, liked by, or attracted to someone, the more persuasive they become. When you create an instant bond or connection, people feel comfortable around you. They will feel like they have known you for a long time and that they can easily relate to you. When we feel connected with someone, we feel comfortable and understood; they can relate to us and a sense of trust ensues.

How to Double your Sales Appointments in Half the Time; Part 1

Sales organizations live by growth. And Sales Growth is measured by sales revenue. If you want to know how to increase sales revenue there are only three ways to do it.