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Lesson #2: Rise Above Your Obstacles
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity,” says Oprah. “Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.”
Those idiots in sales just don’t get it
I’m presenting a workshop this week titled - How to get sales and marketing on the same page.
Motivating your Sales Team - Making more sales with fewer calls
As a manager or sales professional interested in boosting revenues, you've no doubt heard the expression, 'selling is a numbers game'. The idea is that the more potential customers you contact, the more likely you are to make sales. Makes sense in theory but in the real world this belief often reduces revenues. Here's why...

Long Live Profit Sellling
Successful enterprises will focus on their bottom line through a combination of profit selling and cost cutting while relentlessly driving extraordinary value to selected customers.
How to have successful Home based Business?
Starting a home based business is not a joke. It takes real hard work and the right mental attitude. Sometimes, even these are not sufficient to manage risks. Above all, you must have the legitimate home based business.
Track Sales Calls with Call Accounting Software
Call accounting software allows managers to track sales calls, monitor employee productivity, decrease telecom expenses, and track marketing campaigns.
5 Ways to Grow Your Sales Team
I have wondered for years if there are constants in sales management. Are there principles that would help me help others in the area of management? I realized, first and foremost, that there are two basic types of leaders: bottom line managers and people managers.
Sales Management Training and Focus
In a strong economy just showing up to play is enough to achieve your sales objectives. In today’s economic environment sales leaders are facing sales force downsizing and poor sales rep morale. Sales reps are frustrated by longer sales cycles, dropping demand, unrealistic quotas, concerns about declining income and losing their jobs.
Have You Mastered Sales 1.5?
Sales 2.0 is getting tons of buzz right now in the technology market. So how do you begin to transform your organization? Take baby steps: you need to master Sales 1.5 before Sales 2.0. You need a solid foundation on which to initiate real change
How Focus Helps Sales Management Effectiveness
In a strong economy just showing up to play is enough to achieve your sales objectives. In today’s economic environment sales leaders are facing sales force downsizing and poor sales rep morale. Sales reps are frustrated by longer sales cycles, dropping demand, unrealistic quotas, concerns about declining income and losing their jobs.

A Simple Exercise
How will you spend the rest of your days? Trading time for money or living life on your terms?!?
Stop Blaming Sales!
If sales isn't responding - then marketing is responsible. Marketing's role is to give sales the tools and training they need to sell the company's solutions. It's also marketing's role to get them excited about the newest offerings. So the next time someone starts to blame sales for lack of product acceptance in your customer base or for discounting deals that don't generate the margin or results you expected - think again. It's most likely sales is doing the best they can with what they've been given.

Sales Training - Top 3 Questions to Decide If Comparing Yourself Can Increase Your Sales
In sales it's so easy to compare because there of goals and quotas. When we are on a team, those goals or quotas might seem like enough of a measuring stick. In sales, whether on a team or solo, we often use another measuring stick: other people. Is it ever really worthwhile to compare ourselves to anyone or anything? What would Dr. House do?
More Sales Means Less Confusion
Have you ever considered that more means less in sales? This is especially true in sales. Learn how you can even win more sales and have a less lot of confusion.
Measuring Results: Key performance indicators can help set better goals for sales reps
Sales managers often rush to judgment if sales reps aren't meeting their quotas, and automatically assume that they either don't have the skills or the understanding to perform.

Manage Your Salespeople by Working Smart, Negotiate Quotas
How do you get your salespeople to "buy-in" to keeping good records of what they do every day? Sit down one-on-one, and negotiate their annual quotas with them. Help them translate their annual quota into their individual daily behavior. For example, a $5 million annual quota might equal three New Dials, one New Appointment, two Futures, one Referral Received and two Customer Visits every day. Don't forget to have them either write in or phone in their daily behavior numbers to post on the community "behavior board" for all to see. Look for more unconventional management tips in a future Today's Sales Meeting Minute.

Filling the Sales Pipeline Whos to Blame
What happens when your salespeople don't do what they're supposed to do?
Simple Steps to Increase Productivity
I see many organisations every week that simply see IT as a cost. This thought bothers me, as if engineered correctly the benefits of an IT investment can be clear, dare I say it ‘exciting’ for a business. I'm going to just give you a few quick, free or relatively cheap changes you can implement in your business that can make a dramatic impact on your productivity, and thus increase profit.
Sales Training that Really Works
Research and practical experience reveals that many of the widely used sales training approaches and techniques are largely ineffective with a relatively small proportion of the learnings being retained after the training event. Salespeople have relatively little brain space allocated for theory and respond best to highly interactive, participative and engaging simulations that mimic the reality that they will face in the field. Such simulations are feedback rich and play on salespeople's competitive instincts as they compete with one another in the simulations.
Be Adaptable With Your Sales Team to Achieve Peak Performance
Masterful management is understanding how to motivate and influence increased performance with differing personalities and talent levels.
The Sales Pipeline
Maintaining a healthy sales pipeline is the key to consistent and predictable sales performance. Everybody feels better when there are enough qualified opportunities "in the works" to forecast strong sales in the future. The best way to ensure an increase in future revenue is to focus on building your sales pipeline today.
Networking Power
Is networking effective or even necessary? Is it tough to find time for networking?
Not Everyone will Want What you are Selling
Over the years, while working with work at home moms and dads who are home based business owners, I have noticed their unrealistic ideas as to how their business should grow. Many expect overnight success and many expect that everyone else should have the same interest level in the type of business they are involved in as they do. When you are in a home business, no matter what it is, you need to realize that not everyone is going to be as excited about what you do as you are. Everyone has different interests, different goals, and different likes and dislikes.
14 Characteristics of Top-Flight Salespeople
The Difference between The Best And The Also-Rans… As a consultant and trainer in sales and the sales process, I’m often asked the question, “What makes a top-performing salesperson?” As with most things in life, the answer can be summarised in just two words, Attitude and Activity. Attitude determines the difference between the best and the rest. The best don’t necessarily know more, they just do more and do it better and more frequently. Activity is the manifestation of their desire to succeed. Combined, they become Actitude - activity conducted with a positive attitude.

5.3.2 Pre-employment: Public sector training
Most post-secondary public VET institutions have no explicit goals with respect to poverty reduction.
Africa's Secret Talent Pool
The skills and capacity problems of Africa will not be resolved until women, who comprise an estimated 50% of the potential workforce, are recognized, empowered, trained and allowed to take their place in business and government. Because of the size of the problem, panellists suggested changes to benefit women in the male dominated professional environment need to be legislated to be effective.

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Sales amateur vs. sales professional
I am sure you have heard about salespeople earning $200-300k, a million or even more. Do you think this sales person is better than you are? They are not much different from you; they are not geniuses or impeccable experts in their field. They probably don’t know much more about their products or service than other salespeople in the same company. So you are probably asking yourself – how is it that they can make six or seven figures and you are struggling month by month to make ends meet and reach your quotas?
Measuring Results: Key performance indicators can help set better goals for sales reps
Sales managers often rush to judgment if sales reps aren't meeting their quotas, and automatically assume that they either don't have the skills or the understanding to perform.

Sales Training - Top 3 Questions to Decide If Comparing Yourself Can Increase Your Sales
In sales it's so easy to compare because there of goals and quotas. When we are on a team, those goals or quotas might seem like enough of a measuring stick. In sales, whether on a team or solo, we often use another measuring stick: other people. Is it ever really worthwhile to compare ourselves to anyone or anything? What would Dr. House do?
How Focus Helps Sales Management Effectiveness
In a strong economy just showing up to play is enough to achieve your sales objectives. In today’s economic environment sales leaders are facing sales force downsizing and poor sales rep morale. Sales reps are frustrated by longer sales cycles, dropping demand, unrealistic quotas, concerns about declining income and losing their jobs.

Five Ways to Have Sizzling Summer Sales
The fact is, top 20% producers still find ways to make their quotas in summer, and they also find ways to set up the end of the year so they exceed their revenue goals, earn their bonuses and have a great holiday season. And you can, too.

Conclusions from the study: Sales Speaks - Perceptions and Ponderings on Marketing Leads
Over the last four years, sales quotas increased 33%, while quota achievement dropped by 25%. Only 50% of salesreps made quota in 2010 and in 42% of companies, fewer than 1/2 made quota. This is why the role of demand generation is growing by leaps and bounds.
Performance Planning 2.0: 4 Steps to Turn Around Under-Performers
According to CSO Insights data, fewer reps are achieving quota (2010: just 6 out of 10 made quota), yet quotas, on average, are going up (95% of companies plan to raise quotas in 2011!). Can you really grow sales by fiat?
2012 Revenue – Making It Happen vs. Hoping It Happens
The folks from CSO Insights did a webinar by this title recently. Here are some of their conclusions: Sales quotas keep going up – and faster than ever. We cannot count on an improving economy to save us Product advantages are no longer adequate

Your Sales People Will Miss Quota - Unless You Give Them This...
The beginning of the calendar year is a milestone in the sales manager/sales person relationship - marked by the issuance of sales quotas. In this episode of the Sales Management Minute, learn the key to ensuring your sales people are armed with the tools they need to achieve quota.
Wash, Rinse, Repeat
Most sales executives spend their time managing territories, developing account strategies, and setting quotas. However few pay attention to their sales process.

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