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How Can We Control External Events If We Do Not Have Control Internally?

Jonathan Farrington

Feeling increasingly powerless to influence prospects, they may also begin to press for a sale in ineffective ways – for instance, by arranging formal product presentations to prospects that they have not even qualified or who haven’t yet agreed that they need the solution. News: Here is a message/invitation from good chum Joanne Black ….

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Sales Mastery or Sales Enablement?

Pipeliner

Salespeople need to fund themselves from the value they create rather than from the margins that the product or service delivers. For any sales person to prosper in their career they need to move beyond being good at building relationships to also embrace the holy trinity of sales mastery: Lead with insight as a domain expert.

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Top 25 Incendiary Social Selling Secrets

Tony Hughes

Just reading Jonathan Farrington's statistic that, 'the average quota attainment in B2B sales is below 60%,' prompts me to lay out a blueprint on how to fix it. TAS Dealmaker, Pipeline Manager, HootSuite, Marketo, InsideView, Avention, HubSpot. Combine LinkedIn with top flight selling modules. Don't you be the one.