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The Center for Sales Strategy Blog

Improving Sales Performance: It's About Time...

Improve Your Sales Performance!When you’re trying to nail down an appointment with a business owner or manager, it is important to remember the root word of business: Busy.

Topics: sales strategy Sales

Sales Management Secrets (Part 3): Coaching the Talent of Command

sales management performanceShe’s highly assertive, exceedingly convincing, always taking charge of situations (even when it’s not her job), and a natural closer. She just can’t help building a case for what she believes in and she relishes the opportunity to change people’s minds so they finally see things her way.

Topics: developing strengths Sales

Things the Best Salespeople do When Their Manager is Not Looking

Improve Sales Performance!Improving sales performance happens when salespeople do the little things that make a difference.  The best salespeople do these things without being told — they even do these things when their manager is not looking:

Topics: Inbound Marketing Sales

Dale Carnegie can help Improve Your Sales Performance

How to make friends and influence your bottom line

Topics: Needs Analysis sales performance Sales

The world doesn’t pause while you’re away

World on pauseThere was an incident when my daughter was still very young, in which she was happily singing-along to a song on the radio.  We got to the grocery store and went in to grab a few things, and then headed back out to the car.  When I started the car, she started to cry.  “What’s wrong,” I asked?  “The radio’s not playing my favorite song anymore…” 

Topics: Needs Analysis Sales

The New Year's Resolution You Forgot to Make

Improve Your Sales Performance!As we move into a new year, great sales leaders in every industry and every country will develop a new or somewhat revised strategy for the challenges and opportunities they see before them.

Topics: sales performance Sales

10 Resolutions: Setting Appointments to Improve Sales Performance

How SellingHappy New Year!  In 2012, our Appointment Lab has learned that setting appointments for our clients involves clear organizational planning and preparation in targeting the ideal customer.

Topics: sales performance Sales

Sales Management Secrets (Part 2): Coaching the Talent of Discipline

Secrets to Coaching 2 of 8Most managers agree that it is a true pleasure to manage salespeople who have strong Discipline because they don’t need to babysit them, check up on them, or clean up their messes.  A seller with this innate talent is buttoned-up and organized — and best of all, they have a system for everything which means they tend to have terrific follow-thru.  They also manage their time well, so they are never late and they are able to fill their free moments with productive work to ensure that everything gets done.  

Topics: developing strengths Sales

Leadership Development: The root word of business is BUSY

leadership developmentIn their trend forecast for 2013, Trendwatching.com shares an observation called “Mobile Moments.”  The idea is that people are now making use of every available moment, since they can hold their news sources, entertainment, telephone and social network in the palm of their hand.   

Topics: setting expectations sales strategy Sales

Help Me Santa! 10 Things I Want to Improve My Sales Performance!

10 Things Every Salesperson Wishes Santa Would Bring
Topics: Needs Analysis sales performance Inbound Marketing Sales