Understanding the Sales Force
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Baseball, Sales Cycles, and the Quest for Shorter
- September 23, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
In selling, there are even more options for shortening the sales cycle. They include:
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After Inbound 14 – Anatomy of a Hybrid Sales & Marketing Role
- September 22, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
When speaking on the Inbound Stage at Inbound14, my topic was Hiring for the Inbound Sales Role. I asked the question, “Is this a sales or a marketing role?”
The audience desperately wanted this to be a hybrid – someone who could do both the marketing and the sales. Unfortunately, a hybrid role it is not.
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How Significant is the Migration to Inside Sales?
- September 17, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
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Keys to Improved Sales Performance – Part 3 of 4
- September 14, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
While the majority of the 1,200 articles that I have written and posted on this blog in the past 8 years are about the sales force, sales management, sales leadership and sales recruiting, I write about selling more than I ever expected to. Nowhere is this more evident than this summer, when I managed to write these 7 articles.
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Taking Your Prospecting to the Next Level
- September 14, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Do you ever wonder how selling evolved to where it is today? Do you ever think about how salespeople sold in the old, old days? All sales calls were face-to-face (no phones) and the sellers traveled by horse, canoe, boat, and later, ship. That doesn’t sound like it was efficient – or fun. Over time, selling and our options for connecting with potential customers, moved to a new level.
Five important inventions were huge aids to selling – and they’re not what you think they are:
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Sales Efficiency – Has Google Provided Us With the Golden Egg?
- September 10, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
It’s 6 AM and we need to plan our day. Oh boy.
There are 87 emails that came in since 6PM yesterday, 2 internal meetings, 3 external meetings, 5 phone meetings and 14 items on the to-do list that must be completed today, including proposals, follow ups, job offers and CRM updates. Whew!
Does that sound like you and your typical day?
With all of the demands on our time, it’s more important than ever that we become more efficient. Some of that can be accomplished through the use of tools, but as with all automation, if you don’t have a good manual process, the automated process probably won’t help.
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7 New Ways to Motivate Salespeople Through 20 Old Hurdles
- September 8, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
But what about those who are intrinsically-motivated – those who are motivated by satisfaction, fulfillment, praise and recognition. They want to change the world. They love what they do and want to achieve mastery. That motivates them. OMG is able to differentiate between intrinsically-motivated and extrinsically-motivated salespeople, but how do you manage those who are intrinsically-motivated? How do you get them to perform when they are interested in things that go beyond a commission check?
Perhaps this will help:
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Keys to Improved Sales Performance – Part 4 of 4
- September 5, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If you are like most folks, you were away for at least part of the summer, took as many long weekends as you could, and worked fewer hours on the days you actually did work. As part of getting the work done, you deleted as many emails as you could where a reply wasn’t required and visited fewer websites and blogs.
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Keys to Improved Sales Performance – Part 2 of 4
- September 3, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If you are like most folks, you were away for at least part of the summer, took as many long weekends as you could, and worked fewer hours on the days you actually did work. As part of getting the work done, you deleted as many emails as you could where a reply wasn’t required and visited fewer websites and blogs.
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Keys to Improved Sales Performance – Part 1 of 4
- September 2, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
This is the first in a four-part series that will run this week.
If you are like most folks, you were away for at least part of the summer, took as many long weekends as you could, and worked fewer hours on the days you actually did work. As part of getting the work done, you deleted as many emails as you could where a reply wasn’t required and visited fewer websites and blogs.