sales management
Embracing The “Messiness” Of Buying And Selling
As human beings and business professionals we crave structure and order in everything we do. We build carefully architected sales processes. Our customers draft detailed project plans, guiding them on their journey.
Why Cheatsheets And Hacks Don’t Deliver
My feeds in social media are filled with Cheatsheets, Hacks, Templates—all sorts of tools. They attract lots of interest, lots of requests. People are looking for anything they can do to help them do their jobs, to find the shortcuts or secrets to success. I look at them, most are pretty good, there are always interesting ideas and approaches.
The Death of Customer Proposals. Stop Sending Proposals and Win More Sales
The proposal trap: You just got off the phone with what you thought to be a promising prospect. At the end of the conversation, you told the prospect that you’d be sending them a proposal.
Top 20 Reasons Why Sales Opportunities Don’t Close
As regular readers know, I often use baseball as an analogy to help readers more easily understand the many facets of selling. We are going to discuss closing but we’ll begin with closing’s baseball cousin, scoring.
Your Sales Success Depends on Your Decision-Making Context
Every sale, in the end, is a decision. To make more sales, salespeople need to understand how their customers make decisions. In order to understand how they make them, they need to understand the context in which they are making them.
Shift Your Perspective, Change Your Sales Landscape
If you’ve been following me for long, you know I’m a student of systems thinking. I’ve been taking a training with Cabrera Lab, the think tank run by Drs. Derek and Laura Cabrera of Cornell University. As I’m going deeper with their systems thinking framework called DSRP, I can’t help but notice all the ways their model can help us sell better.
