Experience is a great teacher. There’s a limit, however, to how much it can teach. Ben Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers, wrote, “Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.” Ben Jonson, the English playwright and poet who was a contemporary of Shakespeare, also chimed in on the subject. He […]

Sellers are learning to love metrics. You just have to be careful not to love them blindly. Let me give you an example. In any sales conversation with a buyer, such as a phone call. video call or in-person meeting, it is considered bad form if the salesperson monopolizes the conversation. Based on metrics about […]

Sellers Need To Know The “Why” Behind The “How” Sales reps and sales managers would benefit from more sales education and less sales training. There is a vital difference between sales training and sales education. Sales training is all about the “how.” Sales education is about the “why.” Sales education provides the context and framework […]

I know. It sounds like there should be a pill for that. Have you heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? It’s a well-known phenomenon named after the social psychologists who first documented it. (That would be Prof Dunning and Prof Kruger from Cornell.) The first part of the Dunning-Kruger effect, to put it in sales terms, […]

I can’t count the number of times I’ve heard a frustrated seller complain about a prospect, “Sheesh, I’ve explained how we can help them a million times and he still doesn’t get it.” Uh, my friend…exactly who is it, that doesn’t get it? That would be you. Albert Einstein said “If you can’t explain it […]

Revenue.io is incredibly excited to announce the Selling with Purpose Podcast. Hosted by bestselling author Andy Paul, this limited miniseries explores nuanced and inspired conversations about what it means and how to sell with purpose in the era of COVID-19 and beyond. Join Andy as he talks with the world’s leading enterprise sales executives about […]

Who’s responsible for margin shrinking discounting to win a deal: managers or sellers? The finger of blame for this is invariably pointed at the sales rep. In truth, the responsibility rests with sales managers. It certainly is easy to blame individual sellers for rampant end-of-period discounting. Reps seem like the obvious culprit. However, my experience […]

Pick up nearly any food product you can find on the shelves of your local supermarket and it will be stamped with an expiration date. Best-by date. Or sell-by date. This useful bit of regulation is designed to protect consumers from products that have sat unsold on the shelves for too long at the store. […]

“Hey, could you be more salesy?” Never in my decades in sales has a customer ever asked me that. “Andy, we’d really like to buy your product. But, you’re just not salesy enough. Could you please be more salesy?” This is the one question a buyer will never ask you. That’s right. It’s the one […]

Sales enablement shouldn’t be aimed at the lowest common denominator. If you think the objective of sales enablement is just to enable sellers to sell, then you’re missing the point. I’ve met very few sellers over the past decades who haven’t been enabled to sell. However, for the most part that weren’t enabled to achieve. […]

Success is tied to your Character Sales is a competitive profession. Your success is defined by your ability to consistently defeat your competitors and overcome your buyer’s inertia. Winning also defines you. You win as a result of the habits that comprise who you are. And the sum of those habits represent your character; the […]

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