I am addicted to the TV show Parenthood. In it, a 12-ish-year-old boy named Max has Asperger’s.

Depending on the selling approach you’re using, you are closing between .6% – 7% , regardless of size of solution or industry.
These numbers are far lower than they need to be: so long as your primary focus is on making a sale and you focus on needs assessment and solution choice (factors which are the buyer’s final considerations), and ignore the […]

In order for any change to occur – whether it’s a decision to purchase a product, or an implementation to add new technology – whatever touches the ultimate solution must buy-in to the change.
Often our focus is on getting the end-result we think we want. We forget that without buy-in from the necessary  people and policies that maintain the status quo, we face the […]

Here are some questions: How are you using social networking to help you sell? What are the goods, bads, and uglies.
Do you use it as a vehicle to be introduced to prospects you wish to pursue, via LinkedIn or Facebook? If so, what are you doing and how? What is working and what isn’t? What […]

When the gatekeeper doesn’t let you through, who is the decision maker? When your Identified Client gets flack from a colleague for wanting to use you as their vendor, who is the decision maker? When the old vendor shows up with a solution similar to yours, who is the decision maker?

The sales model does needs assessment and solution placement. It does not manage the entire sale. Buyers go inside, privately, and do whatever it is they do amongst themselves, and then…. and then… and then they either return or they go somewhere else or they do nothing. Of course we have absolutely no idea what […]