Friday Sales Leadership and Your Leadership Peer Group

May 24, 2013

Who are you spending your time with? If you’re a sales leader or anyone in a leadership position, you are undoubtedly spending a lot of time with people you’re leading or influencing in one way or another. Challenge you have is who is influencing you? Leaders must have a “safe house” of others they can [...]

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Can You Handle a Short Sales Cycle?

May 23, 2013

Every salesperson would like to think they can handle and would relish in a short sales-cycle, but here’s the problem — most salespeople can’t handle it. The sales cycle is shortening because of one thing, and that is the amount of information available on the internet.  What this means is prospecting does not have the [...]

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Round Your Price Up, Not Down

May 22, 2013

Your customer won’t notice as much as you think. Surprisingly, most customers don’t know or remember your price as much as you realize. If that’s the case, then why would you think rounding your price up is going to cost a lot of business?  It’s not, so go ahead and do it. Look at it [...]

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Are You a Pricing Coward?

May 21, 2013

Nobody wants to be called a “pricing coward,” but that is exactly what many salespeople are. They talk tough with regard to price and holding firm with the customer, but the second there is even the slightest hesitation on the part of the customer, the salesperson throws out a discount. Being a pricing coward is [...]

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4 Reasons Why Mondays Matter to Salespeople

May 20, 2013

First reason is how you start Monday is a good indicator as to how the entire week is going to go. If you allow Monday to slide by and not make it productive, then most likely you’re going to let the entire week slide by. Second reason is Mondays are the best day of the [...]

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