If you are like most salespeople, you do not like any sales objections. On the one hand, who could blame you. It would be nice to have every sale be easy with nothing but fun to answer questions from enthusiastic buyers who have already made up their minds that they are going to buy from...
Author: Kassy Good
Planting the Seeds of Success or Doubt?
If we reap what we sow, then why aren’t we more careful about the seeds we choose to plant? As salespeople, it seems simple enough that we should scatter our seeds of success among the fields, but we sometimes hesitate along the way and grab for a handful of doubt instead. Customers can sense doubt...
What Keeps a Salesperson from Being Great?
Most people want to be great at what they do, and if they don’t want to be great, it makes you wonder why they want to even do it at all. This is so true with salespeople, but considering how many people you have known in sales, what percentage of them would you consider great?...
The Parable Of The Fruit Pickers
Salespeople like stories, yes? Here is a fun little parable about the 3 fruit pickers, and it goes something like this. There once was an orchard filled with beautiful ripe fruits. Apples, pears, peaches, cherries and nectarines. Anyone was welcome to come and pick as much as they liked from this orchard, so a manager...
A Cure For Sales Report Headaches
Sales reports. Do you feel a headache coming on? Do you feel fatigued? Sudden loss of appetite? Shortness of breath, and so forth? That seems to happen to everyone from salespeople, managers, CFOs and owners. Like so many other reports, it is difficult to read and you may or may not like what the report...
I Heard A Rumor About You 📢
Your sales team sure is a talkative bunch; especially when you’re not around. The role of a sales manager is one of the most difficult ones in the organization. You must hold an alliance with your sales team and upper management even when they are at odds with each other. The bottom line is that...
Does Success Sabotage Your Pipeline?
Managing and maintaining your sales pipeline is difficult. Trying to keep fresh opportunities to work on while servicing existing customers is more than a full time job. And yet, that is what is expected of us as salespeople. If we had our druthers, we would have a healthy book of business with happy customers that...
The 5 KPIs You Should Be Watching For Sales
There is a quote I really love when it comes to sales management, “You don’t get what you expect, you get what you inspect” from Louis V. Gerstner Jr. In fact, it has several applications across business, but let’s just stick with sales for now. Everyone wants a crystal ball to forecast sales, but it...
You Only Fail When You Quit
Sooner or later you need someone to encourage you to keep trying. In sales, that need occurs more often than any of us are willing to admit. The life of a sales person is high highs and low lows and hardly ever in the middle. That’s the life we chose and let it be so....
The Assumption Technique; When Hot Leads Turn Cold 🧊
There’s nothing worse than seeing what you felt was a sure thing in terms of a sale slowly drift away from you and into the land of wind and ghosts. 👻 What in the world happened?! You did everything right and the customer said all the right things, but now they won’t return your call....