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Building Trust and Friendships with Social Media
I’ve been in quite a few meetings lately where I listen to people complain about their declining sales numbers and they all seem to be focused intensely on the next tactic to use to increase their sales. Whether it is the new brochure, or the new addition to their website. The problem is … Simply adding a tactic will never be a long term solution! I want to make sure I don’t come across the wrong way. I am not saying I have all the solutions or that people who are experiencing declining sales are doing so because they don’t know what they are doing. I know we are in the midst of the worst economic conditions of all time and we are unfortunately all a victim of these circumstances. I personally look at difficult financial times as an excellent opportunity for the cream to rise to the top.
Communicating Sales Info To Your Board
My partner Chris Wand is finally blogging (even though he’ll deny it) over at AsktheVC – he’s writing a series on what should be in a “board reporting package.”

Will this Sales Dog Hunt?
Why doesn’t a new hire’s true success in the past transition to success in a new position...? Below are six areas to examine when determining whether past success can transition into a new sales position.

Sales is a team effort
Sales numbers and sales processes should be understood and owned by everybody in your organisation. In today’s world if you are not directly in sales you are supporting someone who is. This is why sales really is a team effort. Rather than being just about a feel good factor and great staff alignment, this has practical applications as well. For instance with the ability for customers (or anyone) to find and connect with anyone in your organisation through many difference channels (i.e. social networks, Google, etc.) the whole business needs to be sales fit.
What Seagulls Can Teach You About Top Sales Leadership
Ever work for a " Seagull Sales Manager"? You probably have. A "Seagull Sales Manager" is a sales manager who seldom interacts with his people but occasionally swoops down, dumps on everybody, and then quickly flies away. If you haven't guessed already, this is not exactly the kind of leadership we advocate at Sales Management Mastery...

Sales Management Training Tips: Sales are down. What can you do?
I faced a similar situation in Q1 2003. As VP of Sales of a Canadian pharmaceutical organization we faced the SARS crisis. Access to our customers became limited. Hospitals and physicians were also limiting sales rep visits. Marketing started calling the sales numbers down for the year, blaming the SARS crisis. As head of sales I had few options. What I did know was that I had to utilize my resources where they were going to generate the greatest revenue. What would you do?

Sales Management Training Tips: Pursuing Sales Results vs. Developing Your Team
I recently had lunch with a highly successful VP of Sales of a Pharmaceutical company. He explained that he was frustrated with the members of his sales management team, who he felt were focused only on results. He worried that they were not spending any time developing their salespeople. At first blush, most of you might easily say you don’t see a problem with that. You wish your sales managers were more focused on delivering the sales numbers. That’s easily understood and probably true in many cases.

25 Proven Ways To Increase Sales Now
Chris Randolph, talks about 25 proven techniques that he has used and has taught countless others to improve their sales numbers.
Sales Management Training Tips: How to Coach the Self Doubter
Meet Joe. Joe is a successful district sales manager who could work in any industry and for any company. In fact, there are many Joe’s in all companies. Each month Joe is put to the test with different sales reps he must coach to success. Joe has decided to start the year by building development plans with each of his reps. He is a strong believer that his role is to help them develop their skills and to ensure that the district achieve it’s sales numbers. With the economic downturn the marketplace is becoming increasingly more competitive. The company has had good growth over the last 5 years but there is an overall sense that the sales force is composed of many gatherers and there is a need for more hunters.

The Desire to Increase Sales Is Reflected In Knowing Sales and Other Critical Numbers
Do you know your sales numbers along with the number of days remaining before the end of the quarter to the end of the year? Knowing your numbers is critical because your business operates in the global economy. As each day starts, means that you have just 86,400 seconds less to achieve your goal to increase sales.
Summer Sales
Are you ready for summer? As consumer confidence appears to be rebounding, retailers need to be ready for summer opportunities.
Plan your sales cash-crop now!
We reap what we sow and now is the time to sow leads that you can harvest into sales later this year! Read about six sure-fire tips to boost your leads now!
Rise Above the Crap: Push the Practice Button
There are lots of opinions on what it will take to turn our economy around and drive sales numbers back up, but one thing is for certain: it won't happen without a lot of practice. It takes more than one iteration to achieve sales mastery, but you won't step onto the podium of success and bask in the glory of being a top performer without the Practice Button.

Top 7 Ways to Increase Sales Regardless of the Economy
Has the economy put your sales into a tailspin? Here are 7 ways to reverse those dismal sales and put more dollars into your bank account.
Increase Sales Simply By Raising Your Own Bar
One of my favorite quotes is To go where you have never been before demands that you do what you have never done before. In sales, this is very true because highly productive and successful sales professionals are always pushing the envelope or the bar to reach beyond their comfort zones to achieve their continuous goal to increase sales.
Win More Sales By Losing Someday Beliefs
If you are in sales, you may have had this thought: Someday I will do…. Exactly when did someday become an actual day of the week. Have you considered that this one belief is keeping you from your goal to win more sales.
Top 7 Sales Skills to Increase Sales in 2009 Regardless of the Economy
Being a top sales producer extends beyond your technical sales skills into your personal or self leadership skills. You must have knowledge of the results from your marketing and selling actions along with incredible self leadership skills. These seven sales skills can potentially deliver far more results than any technical selling skill such as fact finding to closing.

How Crunching Key Sales Numbers Will Increase Sales & Help You Sell Smarter not Harder
In sales, it is the simple actions that generate the greatest results. If your desire is to increase sales, then take some time to crunch your key sales numbers. Taking this action allows you to work smarter not harder. So what are those key sales number?

Improve Sales Performance with More Effective Pipeline Management
I have written extensively about the sales pipeline. Here are a few examples:
Sales a Strategic Boardroom Issue
Long the corporate stepchild, sales has largely been ignored by academics and many executives. However in increasingly competitive markets and increasingly sophisticated buyers a top notch sales force is no longer a nice to have but a must have. Farsighted executives are taking an increasingly critical look at their sales forces and asking searching questions about the ROI they are receiving from this significant investment.

Free Report: Discover #1 Way To Boost Your Sales
Increasing sales in one of the top priorities for companies the world over. The matter is that without the sales there is no company and that means there is a definite need for ways in which to increase the sales without spending millions of dollars on advertising campaigns. This is all new to a lot of people who would like nothing more then to see their sales go through the roof by nothing more then the word of mouth advertising that is so needed. This will not happen in most cases so companies need to start making some hard decisions.

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The Sales Number Game Continues
Sales is about numbers. How many people you touch, how much you sell and how many dollars you make are just a few of the critical numbers that sales professionals need to know. No matter what is said about numbers they remain part of what is, is. So the question is “How well do you understand the numbers game?”
How Crunching Key Sales Numbers Will Increase Sales & Help You Sell Smarter not Harder
In sales, it is the simple actions that generate the greatest results. If your desire is to increase sales, then take some time to crunch your key sales numbers. Taking this action allows you to work smarter not harder. So what are those key sales number?

The Desire to Increase Sales Is Reflected In Knowing Sales and Other Critical Numbers
Do you know your sales numbers along with the number of days remaining before the end of the quarter to the end of the year? Knowing your numbers is critical because your business operates in the global economy. As each day starts, means that you have just 86,400 seconds less to achieve your goal to increase sales.
Marketing needs Six Sigma Methodology to Improve
Marketing needs to do a better job of using statistics and especially variation. When I start talking numbers to people, and what they mean, I get looked at like someone that is just trying to complicate a creative process. Improvement is about numbers. Measurement is about numbers. The truth is, marketing is about numbers. So why not employ more of the Six Sigma methodology? I understand that achieving the quality that Six Sigma represents may be difficult but the principles and tools should, nevertheless be utilized.
Sales is a team effort
Sales numbers and sales processes should be understood and owned by everybody in your organisation. In today’s world if you are not directly in sales you are supporting someone who is. This is why sales really is a team effort. Rather than being just about a feel good factor and great staff alignment, this has practical applications as well. For instance with the ability for customers (or anyone) to find and connect with anyone in your organisation through many difference channels (i.e. social networks, Google, etc.) the whole business needs to be sales fit.
Do Not Call
Last week Smartcompany ran a story saying that the Federal Government may include business numbers in the Do Not Call register. What are they talking about? Prospecting for new business via the telephone (referred to as unsolicited phone calls) is still a legitimate and critical business activity necessary for anyone in sales and in business, especially in business to business sales where consumer marketing and advertising strategies do not work effectively. It is a vital activity any business or sales person worth their salt should be doing on a regular basis. Therefore I do not believe that the government should include business numbers in the DO NOT CALL register.
Live Consultant Thinking: Step Forward for a Good Work Environment
Smart business owners, managers and supervisors, whatever the business, know that we are dealing with people, product and profit, in that order. Statistical analysis gives us a picture of numbers relative to other numbers, but the numbers do not talk about themselves. They are talking about you and me. These numbers represent human activity. How we relate and communicate with other people, steps we take to have a good work environment, and honor humanity on both sides of the counter, affects the value of product and the quantity of profit.

7 Major Reasons Why Your Sales Is Suffering
We, as professional salespeople, thrive on success in our fields, right? Most of us in this noble profession have found ourselves in a “sales slump” or in a “sales plateau”. We know what these situations are, right? A “sales slump” is where we can’t even sell someone water in the middle of the desert. A “sales plateau” is where our numbers have stopped climbing (regardless of the volume) and we’re maintaining the numbers at a certain level and we aren’t able to make more sales.
How Do I Make Sense Of My Numbers?
We had a client the other day who made a great analogy when it came to understanding the numbers in his business. If you've ever seen the movie The Matrix, early on in the movie one of the characters (Dozer) is looking at a screen with a bunch of numbers and he sees all this activity. The main character (Neo) is looking over Dozer's shoulder and all Neo sees is a bunch of numbers. Are you like Neo or Dozer when looking at your financials? Do you see all the activity that goes on in your business, or are you simply seeing a bunch of numbers?
Sales Management ---- Do the Inmates Run the Asylum
Handling sales people that can put up the numbers but break every rule in the book, ones that can’t get along with their peers and drive inside sales people crazy can be very challenging for a sales manager. This will create a situation that ultimately will affect overall company performance regardless of this sales person’s individual success. This is especially true if this sales person holds the sales manager hostage knowing his numbers help keep corporate off the sales managers back.
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