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Sales Tips: Making Sense Of Vague Advice

Customer Centric Selling

After graduating from college, IBM spent a year teaching me about computers for the SMB market, business fundamentals and selling skills. I’ll never forget the advice he shared after assigning my quota and territory: Call high, stay high and don’t lead with product. Some scotch was involved and ultimately the epiphany came.

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I’m Not That Good of a Salesperson

Adaptive Business Services

I started B2B selling in 1977. 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. A prospecting epiphany. I sectioned the territory off on a map and spent weeks driving and taking notes which I then carefully added to my CRM.