Do You Have A Solid Sales Foundation?

While there are many schools of thought on how to sell effectively and properly, there are no standards for salesman that are set in stone. Nothing exists to set the bar for salesman because the field is so broad. However as information becomes more free flowing and selling becomes more sophisticated, a core set of [more...]

Is Your Team Underperforming? Try A Sense of Purpose, Not Profit, For Motivation

Is it true that money can only motivate a person so much? It is according to Dan Pink, an accomplished author and ex white house speech writer. Dan recently wrote a book and has given several speeches on motivation, or “Drive” as he calls it. A very cool animation of one of Dan’s speeches on [more...]

The Rules Have Changed: Web 2.0 Calls For Visibility

As we move through this new era of Web 2.0, we experience changes in how many things in business now work. Beyond the look and feel of business, the free flowing river of information that is the web powers new trends, and even new rules, as to how business works. Chad Levitt recently posted about [more...]

Leads Cool Down Faster Than You Think

It is common sense that letting leads sit for a few days is not a good practice and that the faster you follow up with a lead, the more likely you are to retain the prospect’s interest. If you can catch them within a day or two of opting in, they should probably still remember [more...]

Have Sound Positioning And Demonstrate Value To Be Successful

Are you positioning your product or service as well as you can? Even if the answer is yes, read on and discover a facet of positioning that you may have missed. Positioning is loosely defined as “how a sales person presents a product or a service and how they compare it to other similar products [more...]

Prospect Not Calling You Back? Don't Always Give Up

We’ve all been in this situation at one time or another: you feel like you have your prospect hooked with your stellar presentation and follow-ups, but for some reason they aren’t responding to you anymore. I recently read a post in the SalesDog blog that addressed this exact problem called “They’re Just Not That in [more...]