How are you and your team dealing with today’s health crisis? Personal health concerns, everyone working from homes filled with kids off school and closed facilities have severely challenged everyone’s productivity and effectiveness. Please join me as I offer ideas to help you have more impact as you lead your team through this crisis… so […]
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Today’s health crisis has not been seen before in our lifetimes. But major market disruptions that dramatically impact sales occur every seven to ten years. Join me as I share five ideas proven to work during past recessions, natural disasters, and market disruptions. You’re not responsible for this market disruption…but you are responsible for what
Five recession-proven ideas to help increase your selling success. MORE »
Business is disrupted for most of us and most industries have ground to a halt. Are you ready to give up? Well, I’m not! I hope you join me to learn the four greatest attitude traps all salespeople face in turbulent times…and what you can do to avoid them. I’ll also share five ideas to
How to keep a positive selling attitude, even in today’s virus-impacted world! MORE »
Tough times require tougher leadership. Check out these suggestions…offered to help you increase your impact as the leader of your sales team during this time of business disruption.
By Rick Mullen, Maintenance Sales News Magazine Associate Editor – Originally published at http://maintenancesalesnews.com/msnNews0120.htm During a presentation at the recent ISSA Show North America 2019, in Las Vegas, NV, titled, “Winning Selling Strategies for Today’s Disruptive Sales Realities,” Sales Consultant Jim Pancero told an audience of cleaning professionals that selling has changed dramatically in recent years. “Fifty years ago, in
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Does your team have strong enough competitive awareness to effectively defend and win against your direct, and indirect, competitors? Can your team pass my test on the three levels of competitive awareness? 90% of the salespeople I’ve interviewed are only functioning with two of these three critical competitive awareness levels. How will you, as the
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How many of your reps can pass the “Hellarewe Bird” test? If you’ve ever heard me present then you’ve likely heard me talk about the “Hellarewe Bird”…the three-foot birds who live in four-foot grass and spend their whole life saying “Where the hell are we?” I tell the story to make a point about behaviors
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Are your reps really connected with their most important customers? How many of your important customers are you just “one car wreck” away from losing because your sales rep only has one real contact/connection at their account. But if that single-contact buyer is promoted, fired, or just not there anymore (and that’s your only contact)
How many customers are you ‘One car wreck’ away from losing? MORE »
As a sales consultant and trainer, I see the majority of sales reps today are merely functioning as reactive order-takers asking the same servicing questions until their buyer switches to a lower-priced competitor. But it doesn’t have to end this way! Learn the problems with the four questions most of your reps ask on every
Are you leading a team of Firefighters or Arsonists? MORE »
How effective are your sales team members at defending your higher prices against your competition? The majority of experienced sales reps can talk a good story about all the ways buying a higher-priced product can save your buyer’s money. But most also collapse when their buyer demands they prove on paper why spending more with
Can your team really prove your “Higher price – lower total cost” competitive solutions? MORE »
