Understanding the Sales Force
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Prediction for Your Company’s Sales Force in 2011
- December 17, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
10 Sales Experts were inducted into the Top Sales Hall of Fame at yesterday’s Top Sales Awards event. They include legends, both living and deceased, like Zig Ziglar, Brian Tracey and Earl Nightingale. Current legends like Gerhard Gschwandter and Jeffrey Gitomer were honored. Others who were inducted include Keith Rosen, Bill Brooks, Linda Richardson, Neil Rackham and Dr. Tony Allasandra.
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Top 3 Steps to Successful Sales Force CRM Implementation
- December 16, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Earlier this week, I was asked to recommend books or articles that would drive a successful CRM implementation. They had already chosen Landslide as the application, a good choice, and now they wanted to be sure that their decision paid dividends.
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How Christmas Gift Giving Mirrors the Ideal Sales Process
- December 15, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If you understand that, then why do so many executives and salespeople, from all industries, still insist that the first thing they must do with a new prospect is present? Even the word “present” suggests waiting for the perfect time.
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Top 10 Outcomes That Should Come from Sales Coaching
- December 14, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
When you coach a salesperson, which words should you hear that would tell you the session was effective?
Not “Thanks” or “OK”.
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Top 5 Interesting Sales Tips
- December 13, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Depending on the context of the conversation, weather, personality and the frame of reference of their prospect, here are the top five things that “Interesting” could mean:
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What The Salesperson Saw (or Didn’t) – A Question about Sales Calls
- December 10, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
It’s one thing to have eyes, but our salespeople need to use them too. Typically, their mouths are moving so fast and so often, and the sound of their own voice is so compelling (to them), that their eyes are neutralized. This is similar to what happens on a long drive when you suddenly realize you drove 10 miles past your exit and have no idea how you got that far without noticing.
What do your salespeople miss on their sales calls?
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When it Comes to Compensation Sales is Not Like Baseball
- December 9, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
The other day a client asked whether salespeople can make the jump from earning $85K to a position that could pay them $150K.
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How to Determine if Your Sales Process is Effective
- December 8, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Can you reverse engineer your sales calls?
OTHER THAN THE PART OF YOUR SALES CALL THAT INVOLVES PRESENTING, could you break down and explain, each step, strategy, tactic, question, response and milestone met, in the order they occurred, why they were chosen, and the resulting reaction of each occurrence, AFTER you’ve completed an entire sales cycle?
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Top 5 Success Factors for a Sales Training Initiative
- December 7, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If your company is about to begin a sales development initiative, do you know the factors that will determine its eventual success or failure? There are many and ultimately, like most systems and processes, they are only as good as the weakest link.
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Sales – It’s More Like Miss Universe Than the Olympics
- December 6, 2010
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Sometimes I get the feeling that salespeople think that they are in the Olympics, where coming in second is OK. I hear things like, “At least we made the short list”, or “That will make them think about us next time”, or “If anything goes wrong they’ll call us first”, or, “Well now they know who we are”. But it’s not OK. Selling is more like Miss Universe. If you don’t win, you’ve lost!