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My Sales team arent getting along, am I doing anything wrong?
'Genuine Conflict' is when team members don't get along but willingly live with their differences in exchange for a pay packet. There are no team values or value in the team. Sometimes team members align but it's usually short lived as the competitive forces and jostling for rewards and recognition takes priority. Attrition is high, but players' dont seem to mind, as it means one less internal competitor and is part of the game. Managers reward sales success above all else, even at the detriment of other team members and even some clients.

The little agency that lost its soul
I was once involved with a small but successful advertising agency. This agency had won a lucrative account with one of Australia's big banks and received a lot of recognition. The agency was then purchased by a public communications company in a strategic sale designed to acquire the big bank as a client by default. The communications consortium paid top dollar (shareholders money of course) for control of the agency and the big account.

What's under your sales-bonnet ( Part 1)
All performance vehicles have an engine, including businesses, and the faster the vehicle the more powerful the engine. In most successful businesses I see one common denominator: the ability to proactively generate new business. Many businesses, however, lack skills and processes when it comes down to getting out into the market and stimulating interest and engaging new business. The key to a powerful business is a powerful sales-engine. When cash-flow is positive and business is profitable-innovation is encouraged, the teams' spirits are high and almost anything seems possible. Conversely when there is no engine, business becomes about cutting costs, zero innovation and delivering the bare minimum. It's hard to build long success on those fundamentals, though not impossible. But there are faster and more exciting roads to explore.
What's under your sales-bonnet ( Final)
Graham, cut-in abruptly, "OK, ok, let's let sleeping dogs lie, Johno's gone, and good luck to him, we will also see him at the pub on Friday, he's not going too far. He's a good mate, just tired and over-it and that's fair enough, it hasn't exactly been a party around here for a while. Let's move on to the present." I was impressed with Graham, he was a big man, and I felt his big heart, and from what I could tell he was the leader although the Greek wore the title of Managing Director.

What should you do with your poor sales performers?
One of the most frequent areas that I get asked to consult on is sales team 'performance', or lack thereof. In many sales teams what I observe is a small percentage of sales stars shining and the rest making up the numbers. This conundrum I call, 'The Law of Lesser Equals'. This law propounds: All women and men are created equal, yet when compared in competitive environments some underperform, not just marginally, but resoundingly. Many team members have the same training, similar backgrounds and experience, but some get the results, while others struggle. Is that a result of luck, experience, or natural talent, or is there a more substantial explanation?
How confident are you at selling, really?
As a (willing) potential customer I want to trust you and believe in what you are saying and that you will deliver on your promise. You can make the odd mistake here-and-there, because if I trust you it's not a deal breaker-I know you will be the first person to bring it to my attention. You can sell the best product or service in town, but if your salespeople fail to install belief, build trust and deliver on their promises, the success of your business is limited, if not ultimately removed.

A lot of a littles make a lot
Selling is really nothing more than the art of meeting, listening, engaging, and leading the right people to a win-win outcome. Which isn't too tough to achieve, yet many salespeople are obsessed with the pursuit of the so called 'silver sales bullet' that will magically cut-corners and transform their sales performance and life accordingly. I'm here to inform you there is no so such thing or external force to you that will determine your ultimate success - it's all up to you!
Crucial Questions to Superior Sales
When your customers aren’t sure which of your products or services they should buy, consider this handy tool that not only helps create clarity, but also positions you as a trusted advisor. I’m referring to a time-test sales tool known as SWOT. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. When I do customer service and sales seminars and speeches for groups, I often hear this is one of the most useful tools people learn. Here’s how to ask SWOT questions...
Transform Your Selling DNA
Seven Special Powers That Will Take Your Sales Revenue From So-So . . . to Sensational

Do you really hear me? Or: why Positive Sales equals Listening
How can you sell your product or service to anyone without knowing what it actually is that they need? You shouldn't, is the short reply. Selling means not only 'making a sale' but focusing on the customer's needs, circumstances and wishes. Get to know them in order to understand them, and do it by asking and listening instead of talking and telling. Why? Because that is what effective, positive sales is all about.

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Do Sales Training Seminars Really Work?
Companies spend millions on sales training seminars, yet seminars are not the best form of learning for some individuals. Everyone's learning style is different, and for some attending a seminar just does not work. A number of companies today are turning to executive coaches to not only help their salespeople, but also the sales managers improve the sales and management techniques. Here's a case study about Mike, a salesperson who had attended many seminars, yet never seemed to move to the top of the sales charts. Last year, one of my clients asked me to work with a Mike, a salesperson for a medium-size local company.
Stop Selling Start Positioning How Marketing Pros Thrive in the Best and Worst of Times
If you are like me, you have taken a zillion sales seminars ... learned all the “secret techniques” ... listened to all the motivational tapes of top salespeople (like Tom Hopkins) ... rehearsed your phone script with a mirror in front of you, and the bottomline is “You still hate sales”! I have been a highly successful business owner for 21 years and have NEVER gotten any business through “selling.” Read this article and learn my secret to thriving in business for the last 2 decades.
Strategic Elements To Confirm Its Time To Run A Short Seminar, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
One key element of strategic marketing involves developing, speaking at and running your own one to two hour seminar as an effective lead generation and marketing communications tool. These short seminars provide an excellent opportunity to connect with your prospects and your clients on a one-to-one basis and to demonstrate your expertise with an insightful and interactive presentation. Unfortunately there are too many businesses & organizations promoting short seminars as educational, when there are nothing more than thinly disguised or blatant sales pitches with some not so friendly sales tactics during and after the seminar. A short seminar needs to be very strategic and very ethical in the planning and delivering of these seminars. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach suggests the following
The Magic of Thinking Big... Or Even Bigger Still
When I run seminars I ask people to set goals for the coming year. Few set what I would call big goals. Let’s say I am working with a sales team and I ask what they would all like to sell this year. Few tell me a figure that is significantly at odds with the target given to them by their managers. So if their manager has targeted them at 250k of sales they will tell me their goal is 250k of sales or at the outside 300k. Why not $1 million?
Win More Sales by Returning to these 5 Basics with Flawless Execution
As a sales professional, would you like to win more sales? Have you attended seminars, reads tens of sales books and yet your goal to increase sales is still not realized or where you believe it should be given all of your efforts? Maybe it is time to return to the basics with flawless execution.
A Surefire Strategy to Gain Visibility While Making Lots of Money
Today’s customers are far more sophisticated. They don’t want to be blasted with advertising; they want valuable information provided to them. Information seminars are a great method for accomplishing this outcome. Regardless of whether you are a start up business or an established corporation, information seminars can increase your visibility and revenues with an extremely high return on investment.
The 3 C's of Getting Your Foot in the Door of a Prospect
Getting your foot in the door of a prospect often reaches beyond what most have been taught in sales training seminars and books. It is a state of mind, emotion and action.
Crucial Questions to Superior Sales
When your customers aren’t sure which of your products or services they should buy, consider this handy tool that not only helps create clarity, but also positions you as a trusted advisor. I’m referring to a time-test sales tool known as SWOT. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. When I do customer service and sales seminars and speeches for groups, I often hear this is one of the most useful tools people learn. Here’s how to ask SWOT questions...
Team Building Seminars
Team building seminars can be assets for any company or group in need of some motivation. Much like classic party icebreakers, team building seminars can bring people together under a common goal and can implement new strategies for productivity based on strengths and weaknesses. Like a party without the favours, a team building seminar can provide results for any business and can prove a popular option among employers and employees alike.
How Many Affiliate Marketing Seminars Have You Attended?
In the corporate world seminars are put on periodically for employees to become more effective at presenting their company and products in a positive way. Affiliate marketing is a business model that has done a great job at holding affiliate marketing seminars all over the world.
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