by admin | Aug 10, 2015 | General, Improvement, Sales Enablement, Sales Managers, Sales People
This series was going to be called ‘Pitching 101’, until I realised that we’re not actually just talking about sales pitches at all – we’re talking about presentations. It might be a sales pitch, but it could as easily be a presentation to your own staff explaining...
by admin | Aug 5, 2015 | Improvement, The Changing Face of Sales, Visual Communication
Emails are too easy to ignore. We’ve all done it, and we’ve all had it done to us. Phone calls get put off or rushed, channelled through an assistant or an intern. God knows that WebEx and teleconferencing have their own set of challenges (life going on in the...
by admin | Jul 27, 2015 | Improvement, Sales People, The Changing Face of Sales
Productivity secrets, habits, and hacks vary for everyone. In the sales industry, improved productivity can translate to a more efficient sales process and a higher close rate. So what’s a salesperson to do? I found this infographic from Salesforce online this week,...
by admin | Jul 27, 2015 | Improvement, Sales Enablement, Sales Managers, Visual Communication
There’s a sort of catch 22 when it comes to hiring sales talent. On the one hand, a lot of the nicer people are the quieter ones, and there’s no point in hiring shrinking violets. On the other hand, the character attributes that make good sales people can also make...
by admin | Jul 14, 2015 | Improvement, Marketing, Sales Enablement, Sales Managers, Sales People, Visual Communication
“We Have Met the Enemy and He is PowerPoint” NY Times Headline, 2010 An article I read this week told me that the “NASA report on the 2003 crash of the Columbia space shuttle indicated engineers had become too reliant on presenting complex information in jumbled...
by admin | Jul 7, 2015 | General, Improvement, Sales Enablement, Sales Managers, The Changing Face of Sales
Last week we talked about that most-discussed and least-understood of things: the sales and marketing gap. It manifests itself in all sorts of ways, but it’s essentially a hangover from a time when sales and marketing could afford to be completely separate...
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