sales management
Is Solution Selling Dead? Is Challenger Sales The New KING?
Is the Challenger Sale a paradigm shift that makes solution selling irrelevant? Is it dead wrong? Or is it all just a matter of semantics?
Shift Sales Culture to Reignite Business Growth
Recently a CEO said that he won’t place too much emphasis on sales goals this year because he can see where the market is headed. Instead they’ll focus on where to cut costs and adjust their manufacturing processes to be more efficient. Yes, a CEO said they will not put much emphasis on sales goals. Guess
Five Sales Performance Blind Spots Sales Leaders Apparently Don’t Even Know They Have
A 2015 CSO Insights study on Sales Enablement Optimization discovered that a broad spectrum of companies are investing in five key areas of sales enablement this year: Collaboration, tech-enabled training, content management, virtual coaching, and analytics.
Is Your Sales Process All About You?
While conducting a sales process assessment, I listened with surprise while a sales rep told me that he often sends out proposals to customers who aren’t ready for them yet. When asked why, the rep replied...
Move over big data… here comes small data
Although sales performance has been struggling for several years, in some ways sales organizations seem to be on the cusp of a renaissance, thanks to the availability of new predictive tools and automation that promise to re-energize sales by massively improving efficiency.
Salespeople Continue to Suck at Selling? How Leaders Can Bust the Statistics and Win
Recent research findings about consultative selling skills have me stumped. Dave Kurlan, founder of Objective Management Group, (a different OMG acronym you may not have heard of) reports that the average consultative seller competency has not improved much over the last four years
