Your buyers can afford wallowing in the January blues; you can’t. Snap out of it! Use the 3Ps—Prospect, Patterns, and People—to jumpstart your sales and turn a slow month into a productive one. Perhaps the only active sales in January are back-to-school shopping, fare-paying passengers travelling back to the city, and the crooked traffic cop
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Statistics are an amazing thing-they show you what you want them to. The year ahead promises to be exactly the type of year you believe it will be. The operative word here is believe and your sales attitude is the filter that determines what you see. . There will always be two kinds of salespeople.
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Awareness & Education: "The Problem", Sales Mindset & Skills
We are at the tail end of the year..Let us look at the valuable lessons in sales we’ve shared across it. As is tradition, and in keeping with the New Year cheer, herewith are highlights of the Sales Pitch year. This year promises to be exactly the year you want it to be. So this
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Christmas is here. It’s not only the season to be jolly, it’s also the reason to be jolly. It’s the season for buyers to be jolly and the reason for sellers to be jolly. But what is the true meaning of Christmas today? For many, it’s become less about a spiritual celebration and more about
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“Displaying your intelligence to the buyer is displaying stupidity” Remain Dumb. Stupidity gets you places in selling. Yes, I know. You’ve been told that speaking intelligently and looking intelligent gets you places. True. And in this taking selfies, peer driven, Keeping Up With the Kardashians world, it will. But not in selling. To thrive in
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In selling, practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes better. The sales ecosystem being imperfect is something to think about, not dwell upon Dear salesperson, constantly complaining that the system—process or product— is imperfect will only get you sounding like a dripping tap. Repeatedly lumping your entire dismal performance on “the inadequate system” may be what
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Risk-taking comes with the sales territory; it is inevitable if the seller is to grow The Pope was in town several years ago. The Catholic faithful brought Nairobi to a standstill. The last time a religious event experienced that much hype was the beatification (first time I ever heard that word) of Sr. Irene Stefani
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If business unfolded in real life as it does on Microsift Excel, everyone would be a businessman…and if selling were the only skill necessary for the business to thrive, the salesperson would have it easy. What irony! Many employees shun sales, yet all who start a side hustle—or outright business—crave it. All the same, the
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Buyers are like patients. Assuming they know the root cause of their problems leads to a misdiagnosis— a hit-and-run One of the most self-defeating assumptions sellers make is that the buyer has all the answers about him or his (the buyer) business. Well, breaking news: he doesn’t. Assuming so, kills the sales momentum. To keep
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Anyone interacting with a customer should borrow a leaf from what we commonly refer to as roadside sellers. Again and again, I see informal sector sellers thriving more than formal ones. The lessons from street vendors and road side sellers are simple, powerful, and rarely practiced in the corporate world. What is it that we
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