article thumbnail

The One Proven Strategy to Move Your Sales Team Performance Bell Curve

Sales Hacker

Back in 2006, the Harvard Business Review published an article entitled The New Science of Sales Force Productivity. Risk-reversal language (“You can cancel anytime”). This drastically affects your over sales team performance bell curve. So, how do you send your reps in middle-of-the-pack straight to the top? 5) Consider word choice.

article thumbnail

PODCAST 127: Leadership Lessons From 10 Years of Democratizing Youth Sports w/ Brian Litvack

Sales Hacker

And it was exciting to me because at the time, this was 2006, it was to go on the web to get off the web, right? In the middle of March, we were having a board meeting, and one of our board members said, “Oh, look, my son’s, all his sports were just canceled.” Find people in your community to play sports with.

Sports 63
article thumbnail

Sales Trainer Reviews Sales Movie Scenes from Tommy Boy to Boiler Room

Marc Wayshak

As a sales expert who’s traveled around the world training thousands of salespeople, I thought it would be fun to review a few of the most famous sales movie scenes out there. The next movie I’m going to review is 2006’s The Pursuit of Happyness. This is where it really becomes a train wreck. CEO: “I just had someone cancel.