Mon.Dec 31, 2018

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What Is Your Personal OS Platform – Faith, Fear or Fragility?

Bernadette McClelland

Faith is a winner’s game. Fear is a survival game. Fragility is a losing game. Winners, high achievers, go-getters. Have more than belief. They have faith. A knowing … that everything will be OK. That taking both leaps and baby steps. Forward and backwards, Randomly, In the pursuit of change… Is always about growth. Is always about innovation.

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Zero-Based Sales Planning

Partners in Excellence

As we start a new year, perhaps your plans are locked in. But perhaps there is an opportunity to rethink or, even to reinvent what we think about the sales function and how we sell. So much of what we do is done just because, “That’s the way we’ve always done things.” We think we may have evolved, but in reality we’ve just applied a layer of technology and updated language and jargon.

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Put On Your Game Face and Talk Sporty To Me

Bernadette McClelland

If you’re wondering… then, yes, this is me getting my game face on and yes, I am wearing an authentic Super Bowl ring. My friend Jen Mueller is the sideline radio reporter for the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks, part of the Seattle Mariners television broadcast team and also the proud recipient of this classic piece of jewelery. She was officially recognised as an integral part of the team, clearly not for playing, but for a stack of little things like fronting up at all practi

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The Number One Attribute Sellers Need in 2019 (It will fix everything, I promise)

Shari Levitin

People often ask me; “What are the attributes of top salespeople?” Many traits are critical to selling like empathy, resilience, strategic thinking, and practiced optimism, to name a few. But the one trait that supersedes them all is discipline. The post The Number One Attribute Sellers Need in 2019 (It will fix everything, I promise) appeared first on SHARI LEVITIN.

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The New GTM Playbook: 18 Ways to Future-Proof Your Sales Team

Longer sales cycles. Increasingly discerning buyers. More meetings. Intensifying competition. Economic uncertainty. Go-to-market teams of every size, in every industry, are grappling with these challenges firsthand. Thankfully, there’s an answer. We’ve developed an entirely new way for GTM leaders to identify and execute proven, data-driven strategies that drive revenue.

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Some of the Best Professional Wins are People Wins

Babette Ten Haken

What are some of the greatest professional wins from this year? How will we carry these wins, forward, into every day and every month of 2019? End of year always is a time of simultaneous professional reflection as well as forward momentum. Most often, we dwell on the negatives: what went wrong, what we could have done better. To make ourselves feel better, we tell ourselves: look how far we have come from where we started out.

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The MBO Bonus – Definition, Tips, and Considerations

Xactly

Definition of MBO Bonus. An MBO bonus is a performance-based reward an employee earns when completing the goals stated in their MBO program. These bonuses pay employees based on individual tasks and thus, are highly motivating incentives. To be successful, these bonuses and objectives should stem directly from higher-level organizational targets. MBO Bonus Best Practices.

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5 Ways to Start the Year Right With a Dynamic Sales Kickoff Event

Janek Performance Group

The New Year is looming, the page set to turn to 2019. With it comes the annual Sales Kickoff for many organizations, who are taking advantage of the new calendar year to generate excitement, create a sense of a fresh start, and typically introduce new information and training heading in to the new year. It’s part celebration, part learning that can set the tone for the rest of the year.

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Episode #097: Psychological Ownership in Sales with Colleen Kirk

Jeff Shore

In This Episode of The Buyer’s Mind with Jeff Shore: Colleen Kirk and Jeff get into the topic of psychological ownership. When does your customer own something? Is it when you close the sale? Is it when they walk away with what they’ve bought? Would you believe that they might own it before they talk with you? Often times people fall in love with a product and just the act of touching it gives them a feeling of ownership.

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2018 in Review – Happy Employees, eLearning Awards, and a New View for Sales Training

The Brooks Group

2018 was a big year for The Brooks Group. Before we jump into the bustle of the New Year, we want to take a moment to recap the exciting and memorable moments from the past 365 days. 1. The Brooks Group Moved to Downtown Greensboro! The Brooks Group is in the business of helping companies meet and exceed their growth expectations through world-class sales effectiveness.

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Supercharge Your Sales: 5 Steps to Effortless Selling

Sales teams often lose precious time hunting for updated sales materials, while marketing struggles to keep these assets accessible and current. It's not just about managing; it's about seamlessly finding, presenting, and sharing critical sales content. All of this takes place within an intuitive, unified platform. Dive into Showell's groundbreaking content management realm.

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Let’s Talk Sales! Coaching & Mentoring Q&A with Charles Bernard – Episode 113

criteria for success

This week's Let's Talk Sales episode is our coaching & mentoring Q&A! And today, we're focused on the questions, comments, and struggles sent our way via social media. As a reminder, this Q&A series is all about you! We want to help you to be the best that you can be--professionally and personally. So, if [ ] The post Let’s Talk Sales!

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Are You Nervously Chasing Year-end Sales Quota?

Pipeliner

Pressure can be intense for salespeople during the last quarter of the year. One strategy is to remember previous prospects we had mistakenly predicted to be future clients. Instead of forever sealing a door, reach out one more time to instead seal business. Take the unusual step of contacting a prospect who previously rejected you. We rarely or fully know what is going on behind the scenes.

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4 Tips for Living Your Best Life in a High-Pressure Sales Role

Sales Hacker

The post 4 Tips for Living Your Best Life in a High-Pressure Sales Role appeared first on Sales Hacker.

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The False Choice between Value & Volume in B2B Sales Today

SalesforLife

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3 Sizzling Ways to Warm up Cold Calls

Even in today’s data-driven sales world, cold calling remains a fact of life for many go-to-market professionals. Fortunately, today’s sales leaders have a crucial advantage over their predecessors: market intelligence and outreach platforms that can warm up virtually any introduction.

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Understand Your Prospects and Customers

Selling Energy

Make a genuine effort to understand your prospects and customers.