sales
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Stimulate the Economy – Get Your Salespeople Selling!
- November 12, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I was interviewed on two different radio shows today. Jim Lobaito interviewed me about the impact that the economy is having on sales on his weekly business show and David Leopold interviewed me for his live Internet radio show, Let’s Talk Small Business.
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Sales Competencies and Your Competition
- November 6, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Companies don’t invest enough time and energy being strategic and tactical about competition. The approach shouldn’t be economic as much as it should be tactical. Your approach should revolve around neutralizing your competition as opposed to being competitive with your competition.
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Your Salespeople Call on the Wrong People and Expect Them to Buy
- October 30, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I speak quite often to groups comprised primarily of CEO’s and Presidents. Yesterday was a good example of that, with about 100 people in the audience. There were 35 No-Shows, most of whom did not have the title of President or CEO.
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What Have Your Salespeople Been Listening To?
- October 28, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
In my position as a sales development thought leader and expert I get to hear what many salespeople in many industries are encountering for resistance. In the last few weeks I’ve heard way too much about deals getting suspended due to spending freezes. Have your salespeople been hearing this?
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Who Are Better Salespeople – Men or Women?
- October 23, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Tom Peters said women are better salespeople than men.
I wrote that Objective Management Group’s data proves that a greater percentage of women are stronger than men.
Here is how that data breaks down:
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Management’s Guide to the Top 10 Differences Between Sales Winners and Losers
- October 19, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Friday I wrote this post and today I wrote this longer article about the Top 10 Differences between Sales Winners and Sales Losers.
This post is the sales management version of the article referenced above.
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Sales Force Motivation – Learn From the Red Sox Miraculous Comeback
- October 17, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
When salespeople have plenty of opportunities and have experienced plenty of difficult sales cycles, it’s not such a big deal when an important opportunity dies. But if it’s a salesperson that has very few quality opportunities or one who hasn’t experienced very many deals that went sour, they react – badly – by getting quite emotional, discouraged, and upset.
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Getting Excited About Sales Metrics
- October 16, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
As we encourage our clients to do each day, both of my companies have daily huddles for their salespeople. The purpose of the daily huddle is to keep everyone focused on the measurable activities that drive results.
During the last couple of weeks, I’ve had our six-year old son in the car for about 6 of these conference calls and it only took one huddle to get him hooked. He wants to report his numbers – and he has them ready – each time he’s with me. It makes him proud to participate and he wants to report numbers that are better than theirs.
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Will Your Salespeople Change Behaviors to Improve Their Effectiveness?
- October 9, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Can your salespeople change? Will your salespeople change? Do you have to change in order for any of this change to take place?
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Sales Appointments to Sell Free Services
- September 22, 2008
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Barbara left a voice mail for me today. 10 points for Barbara.
She got me to call back. 10 more points for Barbara.
When she finally had me on the phone she asked, “and who are you with?”