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Emotional Selling: How to Make Your Solution ‘Feel Right’ to the Buyer

CategoryInsightsPosted onDecember 15, 2018February 1, 2020Leave a comment

Enterprise-level B2B Sales can be a pretty square space. In fact, it’s sometimes described as emotionless. But inside those corporate structures made of steel, concrete read more

CategoriesInsights, PlanningTagsB2B, B2C, Buyer, Client, Consultant, Counsel, Emotional Selling, Enterprise, Logic, Product, Prospect, Rational, ROI, sales, solution

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Why Combining Time-Blocking With Cold-Calling Is the Key to Crushing Your Sales Goals

CategoryInsightsPosted onDecember 5, 2018February 1, 2020Leave a comment

Man, you could hear a pin drop. It was 11 A.M. in the middle of the week. I was all gussied up and walking across read more

CategoriesInsights, Mentality, Motivation, PlanningTagsB2B, call time, Cold Calling, Quaker, Quaker meeting, sales, Silent Meeting, Time block, Time blocking

The FUD Factor. Creating Fear Uncertainty in the Sales Process

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt [F.U.D] and This One Time Back in 2007

CategoryInsightsPosted onNovember 22, 2018February 1, 2020Leave a comment

The names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of the individuals. I’d been working with the Lawtons for seven or eight read more

CategoriesInsightsTagsA-Paper, B2B, financial crisis, Loans, mortgages, refi, refinance, sales, Subprime, The FUD Factor

Confused FNG trying to figure out whether cold email or cold calling is the best sales technique

Why Cold-Email Should Still Be Part of Your Selling Strategy

CategoryPlanningPosted onOctober 25, 2018Leave a comment

As you’re reading this, there’s an FNG on a sales floor somewhere asking their sales manager which works 100% of the time? Sending a cold-email read more

CategoriesPlanningTagsB2B, B2C, Business to Business, Business to Consumer, cold-call, cold-email, complex, Enterprise, sales, selling, solution

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How This 1942 Combat Procedure Can Help You Close More Deals Today

CategoryInsightsPosted onOctober 11, 2018October 11, 2018Leave a comment

I can still remember those summers as a preteen learning to swim the murky creek of Camp Dark Waters (CDW) in sleepy Medford, New Jersey. read more

CategoriesInsights, PlanningTagsCamp, Management, New Jersey, sales, The Buddy System, Training

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Challenges: From Making Art to Closing Fortune 500 Deals

CategoryMentalityPosted onSeptember 28, 2018December 18, 2019Leave a comment

“When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too” – Denzel  It must’ve been around 2004 or 2005. My brother and I were having read more

CategoriesMentality, Motivation, Well-beingTags100% commission, average, banking, challenges, mortgages, sales

Annoying salesman who's not an ambivert out of his Sales Lane

The Ambivert Phenomenon: Who Are They and Why Are They Outselling You?

CategoryInsightsPosted onAugust 23, 2018December 10, 2018Leave a comment

If you’re always hearing the expression “you must be in sales” and yet somehow aren’t reaching goal, you might want to consider changing your approach. read more

CategoriesInsights, Mentality, PlanningTagsambiversion, ambivert, B2B, extrovert, goal, introvert, sales, stand up

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How Do You Work Here and Not Speak the Language?

CategoryMotivationPosted onAugust 9, 2018December 9, 20182 Comments

I moved to the home of the brave and the land of the free as a skinny snot-nosed eight year old whose English vocabulary consisted read more

CategoriesMotivationTagsaccents, B2B, communication, corporatese, Fortune 500, language, sales

Two business men Creating stickiness in The Sales Lane

What’s The Stickiness Factor and Why Do All Salespeople Need to Know?

CategoryMotivationPosted onAugust 2, 2018August 7, 2018Leave a comment

One of the best ways to stand out from other salespeople is by adopting The Stickiness Factor. Malcom Gladwell addresses it in The Tipping Point. read more

CategoriesMotivationTagsB2B, clients, Creating stickiness, malcom gladwell, Mindest, priority, sales, tipping point

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Dude, Where’s My Trophy?

CategoryMentalityPosted onJuly 26, 2018December 9, 2018Leave a comment

Trophy – a cup or other decorative object awarded as a prize for a victory or success. (Oxford Dictionaries) Seeing it defined is a reminder read more

CategoriesMentalityTagsaward, Loss, participation, sales, Trophy, winning

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