Sales professionals often assume that they are ‘on their own’ when it comes to making new deals happen. While it is beneficial for sales professionals to recognize that achieving quota is ultimately their personal and professional responsibility, sales organizations...
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5 Keys to Team-Building Success for Sales Managers
What does it take to create a successful sales team, and how should you as a sales manager go about that process? This is particularly challenging considering that sales is a highly competitive, individualized profession in which salespeople are traditionally...
How to Increase Revenue from Existing Customers
According to the experts at Inc. Magazine, it’s far cheaper (and, over the long term, much more effective for the bottom line), for a company to invest in pursuing revenue from existing customers, rather than purely investing its entire sales and marketing budget in...
How to Prepare for a Successful Sales Conversation with Your Prospects
The art of conversation is perhaps the single most important skill set that a sales professional has at his or her disposal. And yet, sales training and professional development programs spend astoundingly little time teaching, practicing and developing the art of...
Three Keys to Sales-Marketing Alignment for Sales Teams
Getting your sales and marketing teams on the same page is often easier said than done. The skills and abilities necessary to be successful in each role often require very different work styles. Marketing focuses on the written word, expressed through messages and...
Five Steps for Supercharging Your Sales Success
The summer ends, school buses return to the streets, and vacations wrap up. It’s time for sales teams to ‘get back in the saddle’ as they ramp-up their efforts for the fall and winter selling seasons. The path to a successful sales flow begins with the first things...