You don’t have to have the top sales talent in your industry to succeed. You do have to have sales team leadership. Ask any political candidate, football coach, or successful businessman. They will all tell you that to improve performance and drive better results in any endeavor,...
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How to Avoid Wrecking Your Discovery Call
You’ve probably provided your reps with a super-detailed list of discovery call questions in your Sales Playbook – and that’s good. What’s not so good is finding your staff sometimes conduct a discovery call in a way that wrecks it! So today we’ll look at that all-important...
read moreSales: Use Lagging and Leading Indicators Together to Drive Growth
You’ve probably lost some sleep occasionally over one of the problems that can arise with business and sales. Hang around to view the lagging indicators and you’ve missed an opportunity. Pursue the leading indicators and you might invest in something that fails to materialize in the way...
read more5 Ways to Better Execute Your Sales Action Plan
It’s the time of year when big brands send you free wall planners for the following year – as if all you need to succeed is the tools to plan! However, in business, you also need an understanding of how to execute your sales action plan in...
read moreThe Lead Generation Process: Establish a Flow
When “flow charts” get a mention in business, you probably sigh and wish your firm’s sales processes flowed more like water – seamlessly merging and moving to that prized reservoir of closed deals. It can! Today, we’re going to look at the lead generation process and how...
read moreThe Importance of Goal-Setting Activities in Sales
Goals give you something to shoot for in sales. But they come with a caveat! You need to plot your way down the field first with a series of goal-setting activities. Why? It’s simply more productive (and likely to bring more success) if you carefully manage activity...
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