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Do Your Salespeople Build or Lose Credibility
In a training session I delivered this week, one well-meaning salesperson said he had a quick point and went on to talk for quite a while before I pointed out that this wasn't a quick point. Your salespeople lose all credibility when their actions and behavior are not consistent with their claims...
SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION
Many businesses today are using technology such as the Internet, fax machines, e-mail, and voice mail to enhance their productivity and efficiency. The use of technology has effected the lines of communication between managers and their sales teams. It is a less personal way to communicate and can lead to feelings of alienation.
Show Your Clients the Money!
Are you wondering how to close those opportunities lingering in your funnel? While these are admittedly challenging times for many, I still see lots of sales being made. So what're those sellers doing differently? They're showing their clients the financial justification behind their decisions.

Schedule Your Day to Reflect Goals and Priorities - Part 4 - Align Your Time
Scheduling your day can be challenging for many. (This is especially true if others add activities to your calender! I have had others adding to my calender for over a decade now!) Today I'll talk about how you put the pieces together to schedule your day.
Managing Sales Motivation - Find the Motivational Drains
Most sales people need motivation. Motivation comes in many different forms. One way to motivate your team is to identify areas that are draining their motivation. This article will help you find the drain and plug it to regain motivation.
Prospecting: Working Smarter, Not Harder
Five tips to successful sales through prospecting efforts from Building Leaders, Inc.

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Getting Appointments over the Phone By Mike Le Put
If your selling cycle depends on getting FACE TO FACE appointments, then you must become outstanding in this master skill of selling appointments. It is the start of your sales production line and will ultimately determine your success.

Scheduling for Success
Working from home you face many challenges. The first challenge to overcome is to set your schedule, and keep it. While that sounds easy enough, how do you set a schedule and more importantly, how do you stick to it?

New Metrics for the Sales Force - Unusual Thoughts for Unusual Times
More is less - you will close more sales if your salespeople book fewer appointments but concentrate on more quality appointments. Quality is not how well your salespeople are received, it's the fit and need of the opportunity.
What it Takes to Get More Appointments
Without question, the most popular requests I receive each week are for help with making appointments and, specifically, creating positioning statements. For example, Pat and I traded about 6 emails over the past 10 days to get his positioning statements just right. But what if you nail your positioning statement but you're still struggling to get appointments? My guess is that you're doing one of the following things ineffectively...
Zoar in Your Zone
us...we too need to find our "zone". All of us have zones of energy, creativity, sleepiness. Does it make sense to work creatively in your sleepiness zone? Of course not...yet we will schedule appointments and take on projects when we are disconnected from our own energy. So take a week and make a note in your calendar of the times you feel E for energized, S for sleepy and C for creativity. Then schedule your appointments around your own zone. When you're working in your zone, you never look at a clock! Read this for tips to zoar in your zone!

Face-Time or Phone-Time To Fill Your Sales Pipeline?
Have you noticed that the higher up people move in their organizations or the longer someone has been in a sales role, whether it be in professional services or a traditional sales role, the farther away they move from the daily regimen of outbound prospecting calls to schedule appointments to increase their sales pipeline?
How To Get Appointments With Crazy-Busy Customers
What’s the real secret to land appointments with insanely busy customers? How can you deal with postponements, excuses, unanswered emails and missed calls? Here are 4 must-have tips to get appointments with your crazy-busy clients.
Secrets of Effective Multi-Tasking
If you are like me, you might have a tendency to schedule more than you can handle. To avoid feeling like you're always running behind, schedule your tasks and add "buffer" time to each; say 15 or 30 minutes.

Reclaim Your Workweek Sanity
Ever felt like you simply do not have enough time in your day/week/month/year to get everything done? Are you forgetting appointments, running late, or just plain tired all the time? Here's what you can do to reclaim your schedule and sanity!
Are Your Salespeople Still Cold Calling? The Ugly Truth
Cold calling. It sounds so...20th Century. Some industries still break-in their salespeople by putting them on the phone and having them dial - more than one hundred times a day - and attempt to schedule appointments. You still receive calls like this from new, and sometimes not so new salespeople selling insurance, investments, copiers, office supplies, commercial real estate and long distance phone services. Today, more salespeople are using...
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