As I’m doing the final rewrites on my new book out Oct 15, 2009, Dirty Little Secrets: why buyers can’t buy and sellers can’t sell and what you can do about it, I realized how many times I’ve mentioned my frustration with the failure of the sales model: it actually builds in a 90% failure [...]

My friend Jill Konrath returned from the recent Sales 2.0 conference and told me of a complaint she heard several times from attendees: “Customers don’t know how to buy.”
This, said by sellers blaming buyers for not behaving as sellers would prefer. Or not responding appropriately to seller’s selling patterns.
Let me reverse the issue: Sellers do [...]

What is the difference between selling in a robust economy and selling in a failing economy? A lot. But not what you think.

Your product is the same
Your pitch/presentation is the same
The buyer’s need is the same

What’s different is the decision making process the buyers need to go through. Do they have a problem that [...]

After having several conversations with a new prospect and his team, we all decided to move forward and get them trained in Buying Facilitation™. As per our agreement, I wrote up a contract and sent it out to “Joe”. Then I got an email from him saying he needed to put the program on hold [...]

Your last presentation was great and seemingly well-received. You addressed the prospect’s needs, positioned yourself and your product just right, used the right language and visuals to assure that you were a caring, smart, professional, and had a product that would obviously be the right solution. The price was right, and you clearly had a [...]

Are your sales cycles longer than necessary?
Are you losing business to the competition when you shouldn’t be
Are you having trouble differentiating yourself
Are you getting price objections when your product is clearly superior?

If you face any of the above, it’s because you are using sales methods.
Do I have your attention? Good, because sales operates on a [...]