Sales Coaching
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Happy Ears or an Empty Sales Pipeline?
- September 23, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Very often, when an opportunity dies, salespeople will ask their managers or me for help.
After debriefing, when it’s clear that the opportunity is hopeless, and the salesperson continues to ask for help, still wants to sche
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How to Get the Entire Sales Force to Change – Now
- July 27, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Now lets discuss your company and the sales organization. What have you been afraid to change?
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What Should You Tell Your Salespeople in this Economy?
- May 6, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
From time to time I have written about what you must do with your salespeople in this economy. Would you like to hear what that actually sounds like?
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Top 14 Requirements to Perform a Sales Force Makeover
- April 16, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
For kicks, let’s take a look at this week’s Baseline Selling mail bag.
One reader emailed that he just inherited a radio station in Honduras, has never sold before, and he and his salespeople aren’t able to book appointments.
Another reader is the Sales Director for several well-known magazines and said that her top producing team is down 50% from last year.
Yet another reader wrote and wanted to know how to chop her 2-3 year sales cycle down to 2-3 months.
And one President fired all of his salespeople, is back on the road selling and wonders what he can do to thrive.
What do all four of these scenarios have in common?
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What Happens When You Develop Sales Competencies?
- April 10, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Earlier this week I wrote an article for my Baseline Selling Tips Newsletter. It was about What Sleep Apnea and Sales Improvement Have in Common. If you don’t get my Newsletter, you’ll need to read that article in order for the rest of this post to make sense.
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Sales VP’s and Marketing VP’s – Combine Them or Not?
- March 11, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Pete Caputa pointed me to an article on the Revenue Journal Blog about why you should combine the VP of Marketing and VP of Sales Roles and what the sales part of that role should be.
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Experts Provide Sales Management Help for 2009
- January 15, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Here are my thoughts of the day: This economic climate isn’t impossible, it’s just not easy.
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Right Sales People in the Right Roles and the Right Seats
- January 12, 2009
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I was on site at a client’s last week to kick-off their training. At the end of the kick-off I asked each salesperson for their three biggest lessons learned. One salesperson had difficulty coming up with anything of substance. It turned out that he was new to sales and when we assessed him two months earlier, our assessment indicated that he was not trainable. The client wanted him in the program anyway because he had a hunch it would work out. “Not trainable” manifests in different ways but usually has the same outcome – salespeople don’t improve.
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Panic on the Sales Force and What to Do About It
- December 10, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
What gets you in a panic? When I was young, height, water and people were enough to cause shortness of breath, a lump in my throat and a stomach ache. Today, I still have the symptoms, but not over any of the things that used to bother me. Today it would take somebody or something threatening harm to my wife, son or me.
What about for you? What causes a panic of that magnitude for you? I’m asking because I want you to know what it feels like, how difficult it is to function, concentrate, or breath. Have you been there?
Now let’s take your salespeople.
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Sales Coaching – The Big Differentiator
- December 2, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
What’s the difference between great sales coaching and good sales coaching?
Do you talk with your salespeople about strategy, goals, outcomes and potential obstacles? Do you check with them to make sure they agree? That’s good sales coaching.