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Hindsight is 20/20 with sales data. It’s easier to see the patterns around your wins and losses as you look to the past. However, it can be less obvious how you should use your sales data for future inventory purchases.
In particular, there are four key areas where your sales data can inform bette Read More

The goal of pricing a product or service for any small business owner is to charge the maximum amount that customer is willing to pay and maximize profit. How do you do that? Here is an Infographic showing pricing techniques small businesses can deploy to maximize sales and profit. Read More

We have to measure success by more than the number, and by more than great year over year growth. We need to look at how we stack up against the market potential, how we are growing our share of the total opportunity? Growing our sales is great. We need to celebrate that. But maximizing our perform Read More

When the customer say, Your price is too high, the first thing we need to do is understand the basis for the statement. Why do they think the prices is too high? Are they just saying it because they are obligated to saying it? Are they comparing your pricing to competition? Are they comparing your Read More

This infograph from SalesForce demonstrates how a powerful, integrated CRM can organize, track and convert sales leads, even from social media. Read More

Does your conversion funnel have more holes in it than Spongebob Squarepants?

You may have finally figured out how to drive leads to your business, but now you can’t seem to seal the deal. Finding and driving qualified leads to your business is only one part of the puzzle, figuring out how to t Read More

High accuracy is an important indicator to our effectiveness as sales professionals. It is an indicator about how well we are engaging the customer, how involved we are, who well we understand what they are trying to achieve, how and when they will make a decision. Read More

When Does Persisting become Pestering? Here are tips and insights to making effective sales calls and set you up for success. Read More

In each step, we are closing, that is agreeing to go the next step. At some point the close involves getting an order. It is just the natural progression of the discussion. Not closing on the order because it is too salesy is cheating the customer. It is failing to take them to the next step in ach Read More