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Small businesses survive on the good credit of their owners and partners. Often you first financing is reliant on the personal credit of the owner or partner. Learn how to fix any blemishes before you start your new venture Read More

Is it possible for a huge database of contacts or thousands of friends or followers to actually reduce your sales output? Yes!

This isn’t another rant on quality over quantity in lead generation. Or a diatribe on how critical lead management is to sales. It’s an important sales discussion about focus, discipline, and misplaced hope Read More

Is it possible to sell without a sales process? Can you be successful engaging customers without a plan?

It happens all the time. I even hear sales people brag about “the art of sales.” The bravado of natural born rainmakers sounds good, but it’s a fool’s errand. It simply doesn’t work that way.

The best don’t sell by the seat of their pants Read More

You learn the best lessons from the simplest experiences. Here’s mine…

Last night I crashed about 11:00 p.m., never even cracking my MacBook to take my typical final pulse for the evening.

I was exhausted Read More

One of the hottest topics in the sales community right now is lead generation. Not just the big marketing programs that your company runs (and you rarely get any good leads from), but personal lead generation. Marketing efforts that you can start, manage, and see results from without any significant investment of time or money Read More

PYou have a new desk, a nice chair, and a fancy phone. You have a blank tablet, your favorite pen, and a computer. You have a product or service and a great pitch lined up. You’ve got sales goals written on the whiteboard and everyone’s names–ready to record their contribution.

But, the office is deafeningly quite. How do you get sales lead flowing into a new sales team Read More

Making new friends is hard. There’s a lot of anxiety in that first interaction. Will they like me? Do we have anything in common? Will I like them? How do I start things off?

I know, this is a blog about sales. Stay with me. We’ll get there.

The result of all this anxiety is that we often wait around for just the right moment, endlessly search or wait for someone to introduce us, or worse…simply avoid the introduction Read More

I was an early follower of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity philosophy. It immediately synced with my observations of what makes sales people productive. Allen’s techniques in personal productivity are most effective with busy people. Sales is a numbers game. Processing high volumes of opportunities–efficiently–makes GTD a bulls eye strategy for sales Read More

There’s been much debate over the role and impact of social media on lead generation. However, after all the pontification it looks like marketers themselves are taking the plunge.

According to a recent Unisfair study of Technology Marketers the top emerging channel is social media for lead generation, with 74% of respondents tagging it as a priority Read More

I support large sales organizations trying to get the most out of generally very talented people. Unfortunately, many of these people don’t believe it. Or have forgotten it along the way. And it all comes out in a flurry of reasons why I can’t.

Now I’m not a mindless follower of the think yourself rich cult, but I do know (as my Dad often said) “Can’t Never Did Anything. Read More