Do you want to make a sale, or an appointment? Does an appointment create a ‘relationship’ that will close the deal? Give you a higher probability of closing a sale?

80% of your prospects will buy a solution similar to yours within 2 years of your connection, but..

When involved in customer service, are you serving your company and its rules – or your customer? Do you make rules to make sure your customers are happy, or are you wrapped up following rules designed for you – often at the expense of your customers?
Here are two conversations I had recently that make the […]

In 1937 Dale Carnegie published his celebrated How to Win Friends

I believe that cold calls are quite important as part of an overall sales strategy. How they are done, however, determines their success. If the goal of the call is to gather data, share product information, start a conversation, or make an appointment, the odds are that the outcomes will be less than successful: sellers claim over 90% failure on their attempts.
If, however, a seller can enter the call with a goal to create the means for buyers to discover their path to

The hot new sales tool is Opportunity Management automation. Just another in a long list of