Archive for Tag: #b2bsales

What Valentine’s Day teaches us about selling

With intense emotion fused into the day, logic is suffocated, need becomes craving, and price is deemed irrelevant Valentine’s Day selling teaches powerful lessons. Learn how emotion, preparation, and understanding pressing needs can transform your sales approach. Pause. This...

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Selling against the grain: why stoic discipline wins in sales

“Selling against the grain requires a kind of stoic discipline that most people never develop. It means swimming against the tide when everyone else is going with the flow. It means planning when others are winging it. It means...

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Here’s how to break the sales-back office stalemate

“Re sales-back office stalemate, remember that back office is there to help, not hurt you—they are a customer just like the paying one.“ The sales-back office stalemate is a scene straight from a cockfight. Back office sees sales as...

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Cash in on January blues: The 3Ps to jumpstart your sales

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...

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Your sales attitude shapes your success. Now. Always.

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...

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A salesperson’s job never ends: thrive beyond the order

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...

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Three lessons on risk taking from the Papal visit

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...

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Keep sales momentum: show continual value to win buyers

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...

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Make it a marriage not a fling: Build long-term customer relationships

Information used to flow one way, from seller to buyer. Today, the buyer is flooded with data, opinions, and reviews—they often know more about your product than you do. Building relationships over chasing transactions is more relevant today than...

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