How Do You Train a Sales Team?

Sales processes, CRM systems, sales trainers, sales professionals are all becoming more professional, more sophisticated but are close rates getting any better? The trouble with most sales training whether supplemented with great outside consultants, or not, is that...

Sales Tip: The Translation of a Compelling story

The recession feels like the new norm to me. Sometimes we need to just ignore those big ugly macro statistics and get stuff done. Assuming this difficult climate has allowed you to fine tune your Big Story, the compelling reason for you to exist (what else are...

Sales Tip – The Fallacy of Budgets

How many times have we heard the phrase – I’m sorry but there is no budget for your proposal/idea! Of course there is no budget. If you are leading your sales teams to look for budget you really are going to be very disappointed. Look at it this way, what...