Most business leaders won’t admit this: their sales team isn’t really closing sales. They’re just starting arguments between departments—and losing “closed” sales in the process. And at the centre of it is a broken sales handoff process, where Sales lands a sale, celebrates it, then tosses it over to Logistics like a hot potato, “It’s
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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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When your marketing budget is slashed, selling with no budget becomes a necessity—but it can also become your greatest competitive advantage. Businesses evolve. Sometimes they go through a rough patch and the angry CEO blatantly exposes the thorns and not the roses. “The industry is going through a difficult time. And, as you can see,
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3 lessons in selling from matatu!? You must think I’ve lost it, huh? What lessons can one possibly learn from the manic matatu crew?! Well, here’s three. 1: There is always a way Somehow, the matatu driver will always find a way forward. He will overlap, use the wrong lane to get on to another
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“Getting in early with the customer means being proactive, not reactive; generous, not selfish; relational, not transactional. It also propels your career and usefulness – even if you are not in selling – and gives you an unfair selling advantage.” I’m told that by 4.30 a.m. you will find owners of business on the road
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To thrive, sellers must take debt collection in stride. Or would they rather Finance does? If the ultimate objective of sales is to generate income, then debt collection is in itself a salesman. A reader friend of mine told me of an interesting experience he had a few years back. When he joined this firm
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Being the top salesman feels much like winning the World Cup. The double-edged sword of being no. 1 It’s a double-edged sword. One edge cuts the air with jubilation as the world celebrates with you, while the other edge cuts deep with the realization that in this same instant you are champion, you are automatically
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“Hips Don’t Lie” so says Colombian singer-songwriter Shakira; and in sales numbers don’t lie, either. Indeed, ‘sales is a game of numbers’ isn’t a cliché-it’s a fact. In fact, I remember a senior human resource manager, while preparing appraisals for the different departments in her organization, wished that she could make all of them as
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You can list many activities on your daily to-do list, but I submit that they really boil down to just three activities to thrive in sales: monitor-facing, customer-facing or “air”-facing “What’s in your cup?” a common advert inquires. “What’s in your day?” I usually pose to participants in my workshop. “What activities would I see
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Over the years, as a firm we have sieved Delivering A Successful Presentation into five tips; representation, repertoire, research, rehearsal and repetition. This happened in my infancy stage as a life insurance agent. I had just landed my biggest prospect to date. I was now in his office, this chief engineer of a multinational firm. After
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