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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“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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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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“Build bridges instead of walls. Bridges rhyme with the fluidity of human interaction; walls, don’t” Unfortunately, in the process of human interaction (selling),we build walls instead of bridges. Sometimes because we are human; sometimes because we are inexperienced and, sometimes, though regrettably, because we are indifferent. This article is not for the indifferent— depleting sales
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One of the challenges many salespeople face is the inability to think like a businessman. This happens because their buyers are businessmen and they are employees. One of the challenges many salespeople face is the inability to think like a businessman. In most instances they get by without having to, but in some they struggle when
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Today’s article is the 101st and marks this column’s 2nd anniversary. As with any milestone, reflection is advisable. Only editorial space limits the depth to which we can reflect and so we’ll look at twelve ways in which we can connect with the buyer. After all connection is the underlying theme of Sales Pitch. 1.
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It’s official! Even with the drastic changes in the sales landscape over the past decade, success in selling still depends on what it used to and has always done: adequate preparation. This verdict derives from professors of strategic sales from leading business and management universities globally, backed by practical, primary research from observing over 800
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Hunger the quality that separates. A labourer’s appetite works for him, the Bible proclaims; his hunger drives him on. Hunger. The mark of a true salesman. What makes the newspaper vendor trot after you in traffic? Hunger. Hunger makes the hawker I met in the evening traffic the other day plead as a tactic to
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