Tag Archive for: sales

Leaders, Don’t Play Super-Rep! When Helping Your Team Actually Hurts

Some of the most common and innocent interactions between sales…

How To Sell More by Nailing the Buying Experience

People don’t love companies because of their physical products. They…

Running Into the Same Objections Over And Over Again? Try this Tactic!

In sales, customer objections are a fact of life. But running…

Leading Your Sales Team Through a Tough Year-End

This guest post was written by Alex Cook, Manager, Enterprise…

5 Tips for Building a Sales Culture Optimized for Growth

When I was a VP at Salesforce, one of my sales managers came…

What Having Cancer Taught Me About Sales

As we've all learned over the past few years, with adversity…

The Secret to Selling More? Just Be Human

Have you ever been completely put off by the rep on the other…

The Best Open-Ended Discovery Question

When it comes to running high-impact sales discovery, one of…

5 Strategies for Leading Sales Teams Through Times of Uncertainty

Since March 2020, the world has been in a state of constant change…

The Easiest Month-End Negotiation Tactic

It was a couple of days before the end of the quarter. I was…
competition

5 Tips for Talking About Your Competition

"How should I talk about my competition to customers and prospects?" A…
giving concessions slowly

3 Ways to Negotiate Better By Giving In Slowly

One of the most important concepts in negotiation has to do with…

Don’t Fall Into These 3 Discovery Question Traps!

Good salespeople know that the quality of your discovery motion…

Persuade Your Customers by Labeling Them

Some of the greatest sales lessons of the pandemic era came from…

How to Get Customers to Answer Your Toughest Discovery Questions

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"How much money do you make?" "What's your home phone number?" "How…

6 Lessons Learned from Pandemic Selling

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Adversity is fertile ground for learning. And if learning…

3 Powerful Ways to Lead Your Customer Through the Buying Process

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In part one of this post, I shared research on how modern sales…

Stop Selling and Start Telling: The Power of Prescription

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One of the biggest misconceptions sellers have is that customers…

3 Objection-Handling Lessons from Pandemic Politics

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  “How do you justify forcing small businesses to close…

Convert Buyers by Unleashing their Hidden Enemies

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When it comes to high-impact messages that break through your…
business case

Here’s Why Your Business Case Numbers Are Falling Flat

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What if I told you I had a vaccine for a potentially deadly virus.…