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Becoming a Master Networker – Series Intro

Adaptive Business Services

At the same time, these articles will become a foundation for training sessions for our current and future members. I started my B2B selling career in 1977 and our program was pretty simple … make 30 face-to-face cold calls every day. Still, back then … whatcha’ gonna’ do? Even a warm call beats a cold call any day.

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Sales Tips: Making Sense Of Vague Advice

Customer Centric Selling

By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company. In retrospect they provided a great amount of knowledge but it was left up to each seller to decide how to make calls on owners or executives of small businesses to have them consider migrating from manual ledger cards to automated systems.

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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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Lessons in Sales Leadership with Alice Heiman

Mindtickle

There are a lot of great things about it, but I have this Dad who owned a company called Miller Heiman , and he was always asking me to do projects for him. Alice : I think that I had an epiphany. We now call them the dot bombs. Then, they would call me to help and I’d say, “Miller Heiman doesn’t do that.