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Five Ways Online Meetings Will Evolve in 2021

Whether you offer advice to B2B or retail clients, you’re conducting part, most, or all of your business online right now. And whether you’re selling 3D printers, widgets, or financial advice, you’re going to be online in 2021 for at least part of your business. How will online meetings change[...]

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What Advice Do Clients Value Most?

If you sell for a living, you’re in the business of offering advice. This article from Dan Smaida reminds us of the limits of professional advising, and the keys to delivering advice clients actually value.[...]

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The Most Important Factor in Offering Advice

What is the most important factor in offering advice? In this article from our sister company, the AdvisoryEDGE Forum, we share the most important factor in offering advice. Hint: It’s not whether you are correct or not! If you’re finding too many failed proposals and languishing quotes in your system,[...]

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Refresher: Delivering Great Sales Training

Great sales training relies on strong fundamentals. Here's a refresher! [...]

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Is Your Onboarding On Straight?

Onboarding new sellers is an underrated factor in sales success. In fact, your speed in onboarding is one of the TOP ways you can impact your number this year (assuming you will hire a salesperson this year). What is Onboarding? We tend to think of onboarding in the traditional sense[...]

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Sales Managers: Talent Development IS the Work!

Sales managers, if you don’t make sales talent development your top priority, then you’re not really doing your job. There was a rather popular Forbes article a few months ago written by Shep Hyken, entitled, “57% Of Sales Reps Missed Their Quotas Last Year.” The main thrust of the article[...]

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Avoid the Echo Chamber

The last presidential election in the United States brought created an awareness of “echo chambers.”  What is the sales version of the echo chamber? Where is the echo chamber most harmful to sales leaders?   And most importantly,what can you do about it? How can you avoid the echo chamber? An[...]

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Sales Culture Happens One Bit at a Time

I recently traveled to a client’s 2019 sales meeting to conduct a workshop with sales leadership. I love sales meetings because they’re wonderful opportunities to build sales culture. At the conference registration desk, the client thoughtfully provided me with a “swag bag” they were handing out to all meeting attendees. Nestled[...]

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New Year Tradition: 2019 Sales Resolutions

It’s become an annual tradition for me to offer some sales resolutions for the upcoming year, so my 2019 Sales Resolutions list is here. Some sales organizations are still frantically clawing for revenue before the current calendar year closes, and I’ll commiserate for a moment with them. It sucks, doesn’t[...]

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The Best Managers are Unequal but Fair

In my second job after college, I worked as a salesperson for a small professional services company.  One day, our best salesperson (not me, unfortunately) told us he was leaving. I didn’t understand it – Brad was killing it, and under our commission-heavy comp plan, he was making stratospheric money.[...]

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Coach Like You Want Them To Sell

Coaches, here’s the number one reason it pays to employ a consultative coaching method:  Coaching is modeling.  What do I mean by this? Coaching = Modeling When you Engage reps and start with their needs, you’re modeling the consultative sequence you want reps to follow – start with the Real[...]

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How to Develop Millennials Into World-Class Sales Leaders

A new generation of sellers and value creators is on the job today, and we have a golden opportunity to develop millennials into world-class sales leaders. Based on my birth year, I am a member of Generation X, but I consider myself a generation-straddler because my siblings were born between[...]

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