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How to Craft a Proposal that Won’t Get Rejected

The Center for Sales Strategy

I had an epiphany pretty early in my sales career. I had been on a sales call to a restaurant, and they asked for a proposal. I rushed back to my desk so excited with the opportunity to get to present, only to stare at my computer for what seemed like an eternity.

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Use Won-Sales Analysis to Boost Sales Development Activity

SalesLoft

, Craig Elias and Tibor Shanto encourage reps to, instead, practice regular won-sales analysis. For outside and inside sales reps alike, studying wins can be quite complex. For instance, the CRM salesman used as an example in the book had two major epiphanies. Preparing for a Won-Sales Analysis. The Benefit.

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CRM Is Dead! Long Live CX!

SugarCRM

I was listening today to one of my favorite industry podcasts called CRM Playaz , hosted by two intelligent dudes, Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary. Thirty years ago, CRM software meant tracking contacts and sales deals on your laptop with Act, Goldmine, or Siebel. Sales software didn’t talk with service software at all.

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Becoming a Master Networker – Series Intro

Adaptive Business Services

I started my B2B selling career in 1977 and our program was pretty simple … make 30 face-to-face cold calls every day. Well, I’m here to tell you … making cold calls in the heat of summer in a three-piece wool suit and a tie, day in and day out … ain’t much fun. Still, back then … whatcha’ gonna’ do? I really hate cold calling.

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Sales Tips: Making Sense Of Vague Advice

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Tips: Making Sense of Vague Advice. By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. My sales manager frightened new people into making the prescribed number of calls, but did little to impact the quality of calls that we made. It was a mountain to climb.

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I’m Not That Good of a Salesperson

Adaptive Business Services

As a salesperson, I hated cold calling and I regularly chased elephants and pixie dust. Looking back, about the only selling skill that I really excelled at was product knowledge and I could give one hell of a good demo. Too much pressure, not much fun, and a likely trip back to my old ways. A prospecting epiphany.

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The Unlikely Lesson a Karate Master Taught Me About Sales

Chili Piper

Let’s call him Mr. B. I was looking for some serendipitous, universe-conspiring epiphany that made all the other schools look dwarf in their karate “skillness” in comparison to the one he chose. There were times as a sales rep where I could have immediately made the buyer’s life better but didn’t.