As A Manager Are You Consistent In Your Treatment Of Your Employees?

One of the key ingredients of good managers is the ability to maintain consistency in all of their roles and activities. Some of these include how they:

Don't Get The Holiday Blues

Many salespeople believe that between Thanksgiving and January 2nd people stop buying and become preoccupied with celebrating and eating. Quite the contrary!

Influence Mapping - How to Sell to Corporates

We have all worked in large organisations and the larger they are, the more a knowledge of the internal politics and unofficial communications systems is of value in surviving and making progress. For people outside the organisation who are trying to get things done within the organisation, the situation is twice as bad because they not only have to figure out the official hierarchy and communication channels, but also the unofficial ones.

Sales Leadership Fundamentals

What qualities do you possess that make you an effective Sales Manager? Sales management is about being a leader of people, not selling.

Staying Focused On Development Is The Key To Being A Successful Sales Manager

Production oriented sales managers tend to concentrate on doing whatever it takes to hit the numbers. Driven by sales goals and benchmarks, they often get the results at the expense of developing their salespeople. Development oriented sales managers on the other hand tend to focus on the fundamentals and teaching their salespeople how to do the job, confident that the numbers will naturally follow.

Gaining An Edge And Building Relationships In The Corporate World

Gourmet gift baskets are an effictive and easy way to build relationships.

Handling Interruptions And Feeding Monkeys

Despite being a busy person, it is easy to get sucked into doing things for others. Often these tasks have nothing to do with your job (perhaps they interest you or you are flattered to be asked!). Each time we say ‘yes’ to these requests we collect another ‘monkey’, namely a problem that started with someone else (who is working for whom?).

#1 Selling Perspective for Revenue Driven Firms: Across All Industries, Revenue is King

In industries such as Legal, Accounting, Dentistry, Medical, Architectural firms to actually proactively “sell” is considered distasteful. The key is to “attract” your customers (I mean clients). Attract through being visible, attract through meeting new people, attract through participating in functions, attract through doing a great job for your customers (I mean clients) so that they will become your advocate and refer you to their friends.

How to Hire a Superstar Salesperson for 2007

If you are hiring a salesperson for 2007, you should have a list of superstar qualities your candidate must match. If we were talking, I might ask you; do you really need to hire a salesperson to get the results you want? This short checklist will take some of the emotion out of your important salesperson decision.

People Don’t Buy Relationships, They Buy Specific Proposals

There has been a lot of ink spilt over the topic of customer relationships. But people don’t agree to developing relationships, as a general rule. They buy specific proposals, says top speaker, international consultant, and popular commentator on radio and TV.

Feasts, Failures and Food for Thought

Feasts, Failures and Food for Thought The Three Biggest Mistakes Sales Managers Make

The Miraculous, Curative Power of Selling!

Jim’s dad died when he was just 15, and he had a stay-at-home mom who didn’t have marketable skills. So he dropped out of high school to work, choosing encyclopedia sales as his ticket to an income sufficient to support himself and his mom. There was only one small, technical difficulty. Jim had a terrible speech impediment, a stutter, so how could he make it through presentations? Read on, and you'll learn how selling cures all ills, including Jim's...

Recruiting and Retaining Top Sales People

Two of the biggest issues facing the industry today are recruitment of sales personnel and retention. Problems in this area may not be due to bad hires or low unemployment rates. If they are related to bad hires then it means you don’t fire well. You are not holding people accountable. If that’s the case, it only stands to reason that you are probably overpaying a sizable portion of your sales force, as they are not performing as “A” players.

The Lost Art of Salesmanship

Good salesmanship depends upon a skill set that needs to be nurtured.

2007 Sales Management Strategies to Think On!

All entrepreneurs and companies must manage their sales because without sales the company is no longer viable. Sales management sounds easy, but it is not easy at all. Most small businesses cannot afford a sales manager to solely work in the sales department. Instead the sales manager usually has multiple jobs; such as sales trainer, new product development, sales and managing the other salespeople or a team of salespeople. Nevertheless, the manager who is in charge of sales must maintain performance otherwise the company cannot grow from its efforts.