How Can You Make Yourself Indespensable?

Look at the more common picture. Managers who feel they are indispensable often behave in ways that are contrary to their organization's success. Their goals, decisions, actions, and personality styles seem to communicate that no one can manage the roles and responsibilities of their department better then they can. They feel that without them, their organization or department would fail miserably. This is often the height of an out-of-control ego, arrogance, ignorance, and/or any combination of these factors. It can also be caused by poor self-image or insecurity.

Does Anyone Really Manage Sales

Do we as sales people create the sale through our dynamic personalities and outgoing demeanor. Hardly; we make the sale through our continued activity with the client. I will go out on a limb and boldly say we never manager sales, rather we manage activity. Should you disagree with this please read on.

Strategic approach to all accounts

A strategic approach is not limited to National or Major Accounts only. Unless your sales are 100% opportunistic, a strategy is still key to managing your team, and for each member of the team looking to succeed not only on an account level but their whole territory.

Social Perception And Sales Management

Exchange often involves buyer-seller interactions that are influenced by the characteristics of the social actors and the social influence that they exercise.

3 Ways of Pricing – Why Value Pricing is the Best

There are three principal ways you can set your price: 1. Cost plus: decide how much profit you want to make and apply the margin to the cost. 2. Competitive pricing: check out your competitors and price against them, or just below. 3. Value pricing: value your total proposition and charge a fair price for the service you provide. Which is right for your business?

Stop Your Sales Professionals Selling!

That's right. Get them to stop selling from their own narrow and selfish perspective and concentrate instead on doing things that are in the best interests of their customers and clients. Because it works, when you do it right.

New Trade Globalization

Globalization is an old process in a new setting of unparalleled technological advances, unprecedented penetration of national economies by multinational corporations, and the neo-liberal revival of the free trade doctrine.

6 Ways to Have a Successful Event

Organizing an event or a workshop to the public is the best way to increase your company contact network, generate more sales, and get your company known to the public in the shortest possible of time.

New To Sales Management? - How To Quickly Establish Authority

Sometimes a new Sales Manager has to face awkward, contentious, embarrassing or tough issues. Difficult situations, you may have noticed, don’t tend to get easier if delayed or ignored. For the manager, dealing with such problems goes with the territory.

Customer Relationship Management

Customer Relationship Management, in reality it means changing the focus of your business to become customer centric. Funny thing about that statement is most organizations believe they are already customer centric

What!? You Don't Know This Stuff?

The individuals that have been slowest to embrace technology and the Internet are the ones who have the option to use it, as opposed to those of us who are forced to in order to keep up.

The Legal Form Your Business Should Take

When starting a business you should do a deep research and understanding on the legal forms I just supplied to you. These can be a make or break for the success and future of your business.

Building A Top - Level Balanced Scorecard

ActiveStrategy details the foundation of a strategy map that is used to build an organization's balanced scorecard.

How Good Clients Are Lost

The article explains the major pitfall that small businesses fall into and makes suggestions as to how to avoid such pitfalls. It briefly examines the importance of retaining good clients.