Understanding the Sales Force
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The Simple Tool that Simplifies Account, Time and Territory Management
- January 12, 2017
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
In the table below, you can see a generic Kurlan scorecard for time/territory management as well as account management. You can modify the weighting for the 9 criteria based on how important each one is to you and your business. Just make sure that the totals equal 100.
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7 More Tips on How I Sell More and Get More Done Part 3
- January 9, 2017
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Part 1 and Part 2 were very popular and centered around productivity and technology, but not selling competencies. This post presents Part 3, which although having a different perspective on selling more and getting more done, stays away from selling-specific competencies like the other two entries.
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How Learning to Drive Can Help You Achieve Sales Mastery
- January 9, 2017
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I was on the phone with a client who spent some time telling me about how he follows the sales process, prepares the questions he wants to ask, makes sure he remembers to thoroughly qualify, prepares and plans his presentations and considers all of the possible objections he may encounter along the way.
That’s all well and good – but it’s too complicated. It’s much more like driving a car. Let me explain:
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10 [More] Tips to Help You Sell More and Get More Done Than Anyone Else Part 2
- January 5, 2017
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
To start the year off I posted My Top 10 Tips to Help you Sell More and Get More Done Than Anyone Else. I received so many thank you notes and emails expressing appreciation for that post that I decided to share 10 more tips for those who have the capacity to become even more efficient.
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Top 10 Tips to Help You Sell More And Get More Done Than Anyone Else This Year Part 1
- January 3, 2017
- Posted by: Kurlan & Associates, Inc.
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I’ve always outworked everyone in my own companies so both of these quotes resonated with me. At the same time, hard work alone isn’t enough. You must also be smart and efficient about what you work hard on. For the first article of 2017, I thought it would be helpful if I shared how I get more done than anyone else I know.
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5 Year-End Awards from Top Sales World
- December 20, 2016
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I am always honored when my work is recognized and this year is no exception. The judges at Top Sales Awards named Objective Management Group (OMG) the Top Sales Assessment Tool for 2016. That marks the 6th consecutive year that OMG has won the Gold!
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What CEO’s and Sales Leaders Care About the Most – Are They Trends for 2017?
- December 16, 2016
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I reviewed the 88 articles I wrote in 2016 (nearly 1,600 articles on the Blog) and was surprised to discover what I wrote about the most. It wasn’t about sales force evaluations, sales candidate assessments or attacks on the Harvard Business Review. It wasn’t about sales recruiting and selection, sales pipeline or Baseline Selling. It wasn’t any of things I expected to write about most often. Because my topics are driven by the conversations I have with clients and prospective clients, my articles are a reflection of what CEO’s and Sales Leaders care about. I really think you’ll be surprised to find out what they cared most about this year.
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Is Excuse Making Actually the Biggest Obstacle to Increasing Sales?
- December 14, 2016
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
I’ve talked a lot about excuse making and the powerful difference between using your index finger, which points outward, versus your thumb, which points inward. Today, Brandon Steiner wrote a great little article about taking responsibility.
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Holiday Sales Treat – A Mashup of Two Classic Songs
- December 6, 2016
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
This past weekend I read that the lyrics to the popular Christmas song, “Baby it’s Cold Outside” were rewritten to emphasize consent. And the weekend before I saw the news that Brady Bunch Mom, Florence Henderson, had passed away. That immediately caused the Brady Bunch theme song to come to mind but my brain tends to combine things. In 2005, when I combined sales and baseball, it became Baseline Selling, which when I looked as I was writing this, was still ranked #9 in the sales category on Amazon.com. So my brain went and combined the Brady Bunch Theme song with a lyric change and came up with this diddy on OMG.
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A Bit of Holiday Tradition to Spice up your Selling
- December 5, 2016
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
What is your favorite part of the holiday season? Do you have traditions that you follow every December? For the past 15 years an important part of our holiday season is going to see the Boston Ballet perform the Nutcracker. You wouldn’t think that a show like the Nutcracker would correlate to selling, but it does. As a matter of fact, if you read a little further, you’ll see that the Nutcracker is very much like selling to a major account!