Is Using Past Success As A Factor In Hiring A Mistake?

What is vital for you to learn in selecting a candidate for an open sales position, is how well a candidate will perform in a job like the one you are trying to fill. Often an employment interview will never even touch on the candidate's competence for the new position.

How To Create An Effective Business Development Strategy

The Business Development Strategy is used to underpin your main Business Plan and essentially it sets out a standard approach for developing new opportunities, either from within existing accounts or by proactively targeting brand new potential accounts and then working to close them.

Sales Management: 5 Signs You Hired A Loser

Many managers are reluctant to confront the fact that they brought aboard someone who just doesn’t have what it takes to succeed. Instead of biting the bullet and dismissing them promptly, they hope for a turnaround. What is it that can tell us the person should be let go? Here are five signs that you hired a loser, says Dr. Gary S. Goodman, Fortune 1000 consultant, top speaker, and best-selling author of 12 books and more than 750 articles.

Vision Precedes Victory

Vision that is shared is cohesive and bonding. A common vision pulls people together toward the same goals and objectives. Influential people have clearly defined visions that are forward-looking and filled with great excitement and anticipation. More than anything else in life, vision-whether it's yours or somebody else's-dictates daily decisions.

Developing Your Team - What Are Your Options?

In today’s highly competitive selling environment, there is less room for apprenticeship, as organisations need to see a swift return on their investment. Therefore, Sales Directors need to allow sufficient time to enable their investment in training and development to “pay off”. Introducing ongoing reinforcement programmes will help accelerate the benefits gained from the training and development investment.

How To Become An Inspiring Sales Leader

The best leaders promote a culture where their people value themselves, each other, the company and the customers. Everyone understands how their work makes a difference. This helps to build a commitment to higher standards where everybody is always looking to do things better.

Are You Setting Your Team Up for Failure?

Changing your recruitment process will change your organization and the people within it. Rather than constantly replacing your staff, you’ll attract talented salespeople and become a successful company just by letting your sales team be themselves.

Sales Performance Planning

Does your company have a good sales performance planning process? Are your people on your sales team fully benchmarked against a measurable set of annual goals? Do they understand exactly what it is that they’re tasked with over the next year, to drive revenue growth for your company?

Major Account Management Is Not A Single Action

In Part Two of this four part series, I identify that Major Account Management is not a single act but a series of actions which link together to produce a powerful, professional and profitable result.

Breeding Confidence

The greatest common denominator of the ultra-prosperous is that wealthy people are master communicators. Impeccable and masterful communication unarguably leads to wealth. The highest paid and most powerful people on the planet are all master communicators. These individuals put themselves at stake in front of large groups, communicating and persuading in such a way that people are inspired to support them.

Foundational Principles of Persuasion

Central to understanding persuasion is the concept of neutrality. The laws of persuasion are neither good nor evil. They simply exist. Just as nuclear power can be used to create electricity or an atomic bomb, persuasion can be used to create unity or to force compliance. Whether the outcome is good or bad depends on the person using the laws and how that person applies the techniques of persuasion.

Power Pointers for Story Selling

Nothing disarms and invites an audience in more than humor. We are instantly drawn to people we think are funny. We enjoy listening to humorous individuals and hearing what they have to say. Humor grabs attention, creates rapport and makes a message more memorable. It can also relieve tension, enhance relationships and motivate people.

Managing an RV Sales Lot

It is not easy to manage and RV sales lot because the sales lots are so large and people can easily come up and start walking around and you may not even ever see them on the lot. Many times these customers will have lots of questions, but they may feel it emanated to walk up and ask questions because they may not appreciate the high-pressure sales tactics which are so often used by recreational vehicle sales people.

Sales Lead Management

Sales lead management is one of the key foundations of good sales. If you are a business owner, it is essential for you to have proper sales lead management tools in order to convert prospects into clients. Without some sort of sales lead management system, it will be very hard for you to keep track of follow-up calls, meetings and many other details relating to target clients.