Pay-off: Learn what to focus on doing, and what to focus on learning to improve your sales performance efficiently Investment: 4 minutes Strengths or weaknesses? Which of these should you focus on in order to improve your sales performance most efficiently? your strengths your weaknesses The easiest (laziest?) most common answer is, “focus on your …
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Pay-off: learn to improve sales efficiently by tackling learning in the right order Investment: 10 minutes This post is for individuals wishing to improve their sales performance but also sales directors, team leaders, and those in L&D who contribute to sales learning and development decisions. Note that part 2, next week is written specifically for …
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Pay-off: learn 3 ‘ABC’ frameworks – the last of which is perhaps your most important sales framework to keep in mind Investment: 2 mins This post follows on from last week’s post on “The 100m learning sprint (towards winning your next sale)” Once you’ve defined the sprint, you can begin to look at how you’ll …
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Pay-off: The direct way to learning to improve how you sell Investment: 5 minutes Last week I mentioned I’d start sharing some posts that don’t just focus on ‘how to sell’ but on ‘how to learn how to sell’, or better still… How to accelerate your learning to improve how you sell My argument here …
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Pay-off: The gateway to learning sales behaviours quickly Investment: 4 minutes Selling is hard. But learning to sell – that’s even harder. The reason selling is hard is the same reason that learning to sell is hard; square pegs don’t like being pushed into round holes. Selling is easier and more enjoyable when fit is …
Pay-off: Eliminate this costly mistake that many technical experts make Investment: 2 minute read, 5 minute video If you’re an expert in technical sales or professional services, or if you’re in BD or sales, this video that’s been doing the rounds is worth 7 mins. (5 if you set it to x1.5 speed in ‘settings’ …
Pay-off: overcome procrastination, make work more rewarding and get home on time Investment: 4 minutes You procrastinate don’t you? Even though people have told you to “break things into small parts” and “just do it!”, you still procrastinate. Why? Because these two pieces of common advice don’t address the root cause of the problem. And …
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Pay-off: The key to making sales (that non-sales people love) Investment: 2 minutes A number of times people have asked me, “what’s your number 1 best sales tip?” Here’s how I respond (although it’s not my full answer): “Ensure that every step of the way you’re being helpful to your customer.” And here’s the important …
Pay-off: improve conversions and shorten your sales cycle Investment: 3.5 minutes Do you think sales is a numbers game? Like your boss told you? And their boss before them? Are you about to lose your numbers game? Let me tell you something, more often than you think, this thought is followed by a struggled 6-12 …
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Pay-off: make your team luckier at sales, fast Investment: <1 minute The harder you work, the luckier you get. It’s certainly true in business development and sales. More activity = more success. And working hard requires pumping constant energy into the cycle of: learn > execute > learn > execute Don’t just repeat what you’ve …
