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Prospects Aren't Really Prospects
Sales has a goal: find a prospect with a need and sell a solution. You can call it anything you want, use all of the fancy terms about serving your client, be a Trusted Advisor or a Relationship Manager, do whatever you can to understand need and make nice. But at the end of the day, your job as a seller is to place your solution. Unfortunately, we do it the long, hard way: we assume - and this is a baseline assumption in the sales industry - that when we notice a ‘need' that our solution can fulfill, we have a prospect. Yet we consistently close 7% of our ‘prospects.' Obviously our assumption that a prospect with a need which our solution can resolve is a specious assumption.
Changing sales perceptions
Stop for a minute and reflect: What is your view of selling? Has your perception of sales changed over the years? Your answer is most likely ‘yes' if you are a customer or salesperson in business to business (B2B) sales. But not if you are a customer of retail. More about that another time. Today's changing B2B and high-end B2C sale practice styles are an adaptation to the environmental forces. The change towards people-centricity is evident in a number of organisational functions, in particular the sales function where there has been a significant shift from product-focused selling to relationship selling.

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Headknocking Brick Walls and Whats a Manager to Do
Sometimes, when a middle manager tries to express his view about a new strategy or goal, senior management can close their ears. After all, what would this middle manager know? So, what can a Manager do? There are courses of action one can take.

10 Things A Manager Needs To Do On The Very First Day
One of the biggest challenges for any new manager, is how to approach (and even survive) the very first day in their new appointment. Indeed what you do on day one, may well frame the relationship with your employees for years to come...
10 Easy Ways To Build Trust With Your Employees
Every successful manager must trust their team and have a good relationship with employees. When there is trust and support from the manager, employees perform better.

Leadership Tips for the Manager Who is Too Easy
The Plant Manager was becoming increasingly frustrated. His production manager was struggling to meet plant performance targets and was not getting his team to take ownership of achieving results. The initial diagnosis was that the production manager was being too easy on his team. As with most management problems, only two or three behaviours cause the majority of aggravation and frustration. Here we examine how to help an easy-going manager achieve what needs to get done.
What's in a relationship?
The term ‘Relationship Selling' is often bandied about by sales managers and sales people without properly defining what it really means.I often hear "We are in relationship selling" or "We need relationship sales people" however what I do not hear being asked is: What type of relationship are we talking about? What type of relationship are we looking for? What do we mean by relationship selling anyway?
Effective Workplace Relationships - External Influences
There is value in ensuring that the interaction between a manager or supervisor is effective. Both sides have much to gain. Although this would seem to be a relationship between two individuals, who else might be involved?
Make Up Instead of Break Up: Holiday Relationship Tips
Sometimes holiday stress can be too much for a relationship. If you feel your relationship is teetering on the edge, here are five effective and very do-able relationship tools you can use now to prevent a relationship break up.
Managing Employees: Five Employee Issues That Lead to Chaos In The Workplace
As a manager, you may have a good working relationship with your employees. But what if your employees do not have a good working relationship with each other? Here are some information you may want to read about.
Relationship = to relate with a significant other person lovingly everyday.
Look at it as a verb "to relate with a significant other person lovingly everyday" not a noun. It is a verb – continuous – you are in a relationship for as log as you are relating with this person. And if you are doing it so lovingly then you are in a goooood relationship! Whose responsibility is a relationship? 50-50? 80-20? In my opinion, each partner has to give 100% in order for a relationship to work. A real loving relationship is a partnership of mutual support and mutual pleasure and mutual respect.

How to Effectively Communicate with Your VA
Communication is the key to a successful relationship with your VA. Done right, it can become a powerful working relationship, done wrong, it can end in devastation. This is why it’s very important to invest some extra time at the start of the relationship to ensure its success.
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