No More Cold Calling

MARCH 31, 2019

Does age really matter in sales? “Explain it so your grandmother would understand.”. That’s exactly what the CMO of a tech company said about how to explain your mission statement. I was listening to his podcast at 7:00 on a Monday morning, and I was ready to kick butt. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard the grandmother reference. I’ve heard it for mothers, as well, but never for fathers or grandfathers.

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Partners in Excellence

MARCH 31, 2019

I wrote, Changing The Questions , discussing how our questioning strategies tend to serve us, not help the customer think about their situations, what they are trying to achieve, and what they might learn. Turns out, managers are just as bad in the questions they ask sales people. (Perhaps, that’s why sales people are so bad.) Managers tend to ask questions that are helpful to them, but not to the sales people.

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 31, 2019

The person who discovered the 10,000-hour rule, the one you likely learned from Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers, is K. Anders Ericsson, a psychologist, and professor at Florida State. When asked about the ability to become an expert in 10,000 hours, Ericsson said, “I have been walking for 48 years, but I don’t believe I am getting any better at it,” making the point that it is deliberate practice, practice focused on improvement, that is necessary for expertise.

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Bigtincan

MARCH 31, 2019

Gamification in education is not a new fad, or a fleeting phase. If you’ve ever collected stamps on a punch card for free coffee, or cared about a step goal given to you by a fitness counter, then gamification has worked on you. Although it has been around for years, some business leaders are still […].

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Anthony Iannarino

MARCH 31, 2019

There is some part of you that is dissatisfied and knows that you can be more than you are now. Almost no one believes they are the very best version of themselves, and as far as I can tell, no one has ever reached their full potential , not DaVinci, not Einstein, and certainly not you or me. When you look at the results you generated at the end each week, something gnaws at you.

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Selling Energy

MARCH 31, 2019

Here are our favorite sales-enhancing tips from this week's Selling Energy Blogs.

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The Sales Hunter

MARCH 31, 2019

It must be to help others see and achieve things they didn’t think were possible. This should be your goal not just in the workplace but in your life every single day. Help your family. Help your friends. Help the stranger that catches your eye while out to lunch. Be a leader this week by reaching out and helping somebody see and achieve what they didn’t think was possible.

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Membrain

MARCH 31, 2019

Whichever way you turn, wherever you look, and whatever you listen to there is data. Polls, surveys, metrics, analytics, analyses, white papers, graphs, charts, infographics, tables, spreadsheets and more.

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