Most sales leaders find themselves in an endless struggle to find time to coach and manage their teams. As a result, rep performance suffers, leading to stalled deals, missed quota, and slowed growth. If this sounds like you, don’t worry, you’re not alone. And it’s not your fault! Every sales leader these days struggles to […]

There’s a reason why we have mirrors in gyms: they provide instant feedback, letting us know if we have the right form while doing exercises. We can see if our bodies are making the wrong shape, and we can make adjustments accordingly. It’s a perfect feedback loop. The mirror helps us to correct every mistake, […]

Asking great questions is probably the most effective way to make yourself valuable to your buyers. Not talking or presenting. Asking questions. “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” So said Thomas Berger, the famous American author. Acquiring knowledge is one important purpose of asking questions. You can’t learn […]

When you think about your future in sales, what do you see? You have the obligation to invest the time and† effort to think about your future and anticipate what it will hold for you. Henri Poincare, a famous physicist, said “It is far better to foresee, even without certainty, than not to foresee at […]

There are no right answers to questions that are never asked. It’s like the old basketball adage: You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take. It’s been said that 90% of getting the right answer is asking the right question. I’m going to modify that statement to make it more precisely applicable to sellers. […]

Mindfulness, compassion, competition and joy. These are the four core values upon which Steve Kerr, head coach of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA, has built his teams that have achieved such great success, including winning two NBA championships. (Yes, the past couple of seasons have been tough due to injuries to critical players. […]

What are your sales biases? Are you even aware that you have sales biases? And how they are hurting your productivity? One of the primary reasons that salespeople stop improving, and start struggling, is that they begin to believe that they know what they are doing. And, they stop learning. I know it sounds strange […]

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Most everyone is familiar with the concept of a vicious cycle. It’s a repeating series of connected events in which each cycle reinforces the negative outcomes of the previous one.) Unfortunately, I often see salespeople who are stuck in a variation of a vicious cycle, that I call a Vicious Sales Cycle. A Vicious Sales […]

Stop making sales more complex that it needs to be. Here’s an example of that. I frequently get questions from sellers about how best to connect and build rapport with buyers. I turn the question around. I ask them “Did you ever learn how to make a new friend?” I’m sure that you know how […]

The traditional B2B sales process is broken. Buyers want to spend less time with sales reps than ever. And yet, sales tenure, experience levels and engagement rates are all in freefall. Years ago, Revenue.io founder & CEO Howard Brown knew that simply giving sales teams more tools with which they could crank out hundreds of […]

Are you making the false choice between learning and doing? Many sellers do exactly that. I was once asked if the reason that more salespeople don’t invest in their own development was that it was difficult for them to make the connection between investing their time to learn and their professional successes. In other words, […]