Marshmallow or Meanie Pants?
As a sales leader, there is one overarching thought to keep in mind: It is your responsibility to push your sales reps to greater heights than they would achieve on their own. Otherwise, you are excess cost.
What is a CRM and how to choose the best one for your sales organization
A Google search for “What is CRM?” returns a whopping 37 million unique results, each of them focusing on a different aspect of CRM or attempting to unify all the different purposes and meanings of Customer Relationship Management into one, and usually failing.
How to transform your sales pipeline today
Big ones, little ones, sharp ones and stubborn ones. I was pulling weeds from the garden when it became crystal clear to me. The various weeds were like the many types of opportunities in most sales pipelines.
Why your people keep missing quota–and what to do about it
Everyone has goals, big and small. Some we meet, some… not so much.
It’s never “just a matter of training.”
I was speaking to a friend the other day.He’s VP of Sales Enablement for a large technology organization. He had just come out of a meeting of his peers–the top management in the sales organization. He called to say, “the field VP’s proposed that we initiate a major sales training program and are willing to fund it.”
How to outrun the coming avalanche in the sales training landscape
I love to ski. It’s one of my top “flow” activities, and I especially love the alps, which has some of the best ski slopes in the world. But as any skier knows, it’s a sport with some very specific risks. One of the most dangerous things that can happen, is to get caught in an avalanche.
