Are you frustrating your sales team performance? If you are a business owner or sales manager you could be doing so due to poor sales management practices. Here are four ways how that can happen and what to do about it. Setting unrealistic expectations Setting unrealistic expectations is the fastest way to burn out your
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“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.” With the ongoing Gen Z protests in Kenya, could this be the problem we are facing in our politics? Spoken by industrialist J Paul Getty in the mid-20th Century and typically associated with business, the goings-on in Kenya’s political landscape would appear to show
Dear business owners, why do you do this? Why do you invest heavily in the premises complete with extensive grounds, imported furniture and manicured lawns, then sit back and expect the money will roll in. And it does, momentarily. But then it suddenly stops. And you get surprised when it does. Here’s why your investment
If you are a salesman reading this, are you busy or are you buzzing? Are you busy with sales activities or buzzing with sales accomplishments? Being busy is good, but you are paid for buzzing; activity may keep you going but it’s accomplishment that moves you forward. So, sales activity vs accomplishment. Let’s look at
It is ok to send your buyer to the competition. “But I could lose them for life. In fact, there was this one I referred to a competing bank because it had the service he wanted. He was so happy that to this day he still calls me for coffee. But that’s all I get.
“Which theme do you want for your new website?” the techie asks his client. He responds: “Why do you ask?” The techie says: “Well besides personal preference, themes can also determine attraction to a site. For example, here let me show you…” After the demonstration the client’s eyes light up with revelation. “Ahh, I see…”
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2022 will be over in another 10 days. Bye bye 2022. Sales Pitch! takes a break till 2023 and leaves you with these parting shots. Will our Christmas tradition as Kenyans be maintained this year? Will yours? Find out here. Indeed, are you Kenyan enough? Read: Bye-bye 2023. Out with the old, in with the
The objective of the initial contact is not to sell. That may come as a shock to many sales people. The purpose of the initial call on the prospect could be one of three things: get a contact, get an appointment or fact-find. Note it is just ONE. Now let is look at each of
Sales’ coaching separates stellar sales managers from average ones. Sales management is not everyone’s cuppa tea and effective sales managers are few. These few know that sales coaching importance cannot be gainsaid The meaning of sales coaching Sales coaching can be defined as a continual formal one-on-one engagement by the sales manager with his team
Think like a customer. If you don’t do it, likely they don’t either. Quit being in denial about this. Be honest and transparent about it. Learn from it and stop shooting yourself in the foot. How do you think like a client? Here’s 3 ways to think like a customer. If you discard their brochures,