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Focus Speeds Up The Buying Cycle
What we focus on in life expands. Face it, life right now is busy, and with so much uncertainty and fear in our economic environment it is easy to get distracted. If you want to ease the stress in your life, take the edge off the anxiety and just bring the fun back into your everyday life, then learn to focus.

Improving Sales through Strategic Sales Compensation Planning
Two of the most common questions at sales conferences are "How do you pay your sales people?" and "How can I get my sales people to be more productive?" Your sales strategy, tactics and goals should be the biggest determinant of your sales compensation plan, and the best single way to operationalize your sales strategy! Commissions and incentives have one function only; to reward the sales behavior that helps you reach your goals.
Sales Training for Entry Level Sales Representatives
Sales training for entry level sales representatives will refine the basic sales techniques of your entry level sales staff and advance their sales skills with the growing interest of the company. Sales training for sales reps can get your sales team on the same page and focused to obtain the strategic sales goals of the company.

Nine Components of Sales & Marketing Strategy
Strategic sales and marketing management delivers plans that help a company achieve its objectives. Completing these nine tasks will show you where your company stands compared to competitors and what you need to do to strengthen your position in the marketplace.
Activity Based Planning
Selling is both an art and a science. To put it another way, a sales person’s skills determine their level of artistry at selling and their strategic planning provides a scientific platform for their sales activities.

Professional Sales Management - Key to Sales Success
In an environment where customer demands predominate, because competition is both relentless and increasingly international, the world of selling must accommodate a dramatically changed world of buying. Critically, sales management must catch up to this new world of selling. All too often, many sales forces are populated by dispirited, burned out salespeople and managed by short-term-oriented and narrowly focused sales managers. Indeed many sales forces are managed as if it were 30 years ago and the sales managers themselves were salespeople doing the work, instead of orchestrating the action.

Selling Through the Tough Times
In this tips-oriented piece, Rick Davis, president of Strategic Sales in the Building Industry, explains how to rise to the situation and sell through tough times.

Sales Tips: Laying the Groundwork
Looking to close a sale? First you've got to do the groundwork. Here are five sales tips from Rick Davis of Building Leaders, Inc. that will help you change potential customers into satisfied customers.
Sales Tips: Save Your Gas
Forget high gas prices and driving haphazardly to various potential customers. Rick Davis with Building Leaders Inc. offers five sales tips for making the sale without ever leaving home.
Prospecting: Working Smarter, Not Harder
Five tips to successful sales through prospecting efforts from Building Leaders, Inc.
Do You have a Strategic Sales Action Plan?
Do you want to shake up your sales results? It's time to rethink you're approach and come up with a plan that will produce results.
The New Sales Funnel – Makes Sales Fun, Easy and Effective
The economy is not the only thing that has changed, so has your relationship with your clients. If you want to attract new clients and expand existing relationships, then you need a new approach to selling and a new sales funnel.

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The Value and Benefits of Strategic Thinking
Strategic thinking plays an enormous role in professional work and is part of the branding of my multi-disciplinary consultancy. ”A Strategic Thinking Consultancy” appears directly underneath the logo for The Renaissance Group ™ and my newsletter name is “Glenn’s Guiding Lines Thoughts From Your Strategic Thinking Coach.” It is a reality in business today that strategic thinking and the execution of strategic planning are some of the most difficult tasks for business leaders. Although it is easier to be tactical or task oriented, the business leader must be strategic or risk becoming very shortsighted. Therefore a clear understanding of the value and the benefits of strategic thinking are very important. Here are lists of my thoughts on the value and the benefit of strategic thinking.

“Your Strategic Thinking Coach’s List of Ten Key Components of Effective Strategic Alliances”
A strategic alliance is a partnership, a collaborative agreement and/or a relationship between two or more companies or organizations formed to pursue a set of agreed upon goals while remaining independent companies or organizations. Strategic alliances exist in a variety of shapes and sizes and include a wide range of scopes of cooperation levels. Strategic alliances usually are most effective when the entities involved have complementary strengths. What makes a strategic alliance effective? What are the key components of effective strategic alliances? Your Strategic Thinking Coach researched this and came up with ten (10) key components of effective strategic alliances. Here is my list of ten (10) key components of an effective strategic alliance.
“The Top Ten Reasons Strategic Planning Meetings Fail, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
Strategic planning is an awesome and powerful process that sometimes gets a bad rap because of some bad experiences people have had when engaging in some form of strategic planning meetings. Many times the combination of personal agendas, absence of open minds, and preconceived judgments about the strategic planning process can turn strategic planning meetings into real disasters. And frankly, there are many reasons why so many strategic planning meetings are unsuccessful. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach has developed a list of the top 10 reasons why strategic planning meetings fail. And the Top 10 Reasons are:
Major Characteristics of A Strategic Thinker, According To Your Strategic Thinking Coach
Let’s begin with a definition of strategic thinking so we are all on the same page before reading the article. Strategic thinking is the way people think about, assess, view and create the future for themselves and others. It is much more than responding and reacting to both day-to-day and long-term problems, opportunities and new realities. It is proactive, not reactive and focuses on creating a better future and adding value. Strategic thinking always involves change and imagining the results we can achieve in the future. So what makes a strategic thinker? What are some of the major characteristics of a strategic thinker? Here are eight (8) major characteristics of strategic thinkers from my perspective as a strategic thinking business coach.

“Strategic Elements Needed To Produce Compelling Written Sales Communications, According to Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
We all receive various forms of written sales communications each week. Some of these will cause us to totally ignore the piece, others will get a few seconds of our attention and a very select few will grab and hold our attention. So what compels us to respond in these ways? After applying some strategic thinking to this question, here are ten (10) strategic elements that Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach believes produces compelling written sales communications.
Ten Actions To Take Strategic Advantage Of Business Slowdowns, From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
One of the realities of business in today’s world is that there will be times that business slow down for a variety of reasons. The traditional reaction to these slowdowns is to run some major sales, which cut prices to gain more business. I believe that by using some strategic thinking in these slowdowns, you can look at doing things that will build your business in the long term – the things you talk about doing but never do because of not having time to do them. Well, here is an opportunity to take a strategic advantage of the time you have during a slow down in business. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers ten (10) actions so you can gain this strategic advantage.
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
Critical Skills Needed To Be A Strategic Thinker, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Strategic thinking is a process that defines the manner in which people think about, assess, view, and create the future for themselves and others. Strategic thinking is an extremely effective and valuable tool. One can apply strategic thinking to arrive at decisions that can be related to your work or personal life. Strategic thinking involves developing an entire set of critical skills. What are those critical skills? Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers the following list of critical skills that the best strategic thinkers possess and use every day.

What does Strategic Planning have to do with Insurance Sales Success?
If you enjoy working hard, and struggling day in and day out to hit your targets then strategic planning has nothing to do you’re your sales success. But if you'd like to make more and work less then strategic planning has everything to do with your sales success.
Sales Training for Entry Level Sales Representatives
Sales training for entry level sales representatives will refine the basic sales techniques of your entry level sales staff and advance their sales skills with the growing interest of the company. Sales training for sales reps can get your sales team on the same page and focused to obtain the strategic sales goals of the company.

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