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by Shawn Karol Sandy

Got a little downtime in the next few weeks? It could be the perfect time to do some deep thinking about your business—away from the day to day grind of people, customers, orders, and operations—time to think and work ON the business for a change. Team Sauce is doing the

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Topics:LeadershipCompany CultureAccountability

by Shawn Karol Sandy

If you’re in my salespeople posse, around this time of year, we start talking about getting through the Holiday season as productively and profitably as possible. Inevitably, the talk comes up about To Gift, or Not to Gift customers at this time of year. I have strong opinions about this

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Topics:LeadershipCommunicationBetter Selling

by Shawn Karol Sandy

Are you lagging or leading? Let me share with you a bit of my diagnostic process. When I talk with sales leaders or business owners about their sales teams, I ask, “tell me about their performance?” Their response is usually something along the lines of, “Well, we missed our target

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Topics:LeadershipProspectingSmall BusinessData That Drives

by Shawn Karol Sandy

We run across this situation quite often. You started a business. You hustled. You busted your behind. You earned trust. You demonstrated experience and credibility. You brought in the customers and your business took off. But at a certain point, you spent less time selling and more time “doing” and

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Topics:RevOpsLeadershipSales StrategySellingCompany CultureSmall Business

by Shawn Karol Sandy

At a friend’s recommendation a while back, I read a short but poignant book by Jon Gordon: Training Camp, A Fable About Excellence. You may recognize his name from one of his many other books, such as The Energy Bus, The Carpenter, and The Positive Dog. Jon has a gift

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Topics:LeadershipProfessional DevelopmentBusiness Developmentbe better in businessGame DayAccountability

by Shawn Karol Sandy

I just came back from a phenomenal sales conference with my peer group, the Women Sales Pros. We have a public half-day conference and then two days of our private group learning and growing through shared expertise. It was my privilege to be tapped for a first-time session of “Cold

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Topics:LeadershipProfessional DevelopmentCommunicationSales Strategy

by Shawn Karol Sandy

By the time a business hires me to assist with the sales program, they’re pretty frustrated. They’ve had sales growth and sales success but can’t seem to replicate or scale those efforts with sales hires. If this feels painfully familiar, you’re not alone. But it doesn’t mean you’re in good

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Topics:LeadershipProfessional DevelopmentCompany CultureSmall Business

by Shawn Karol Sandy

As a seller, I’ve had the opportunity to experience some fantastic sales training and SKOs (Sales Kick Off meetings) and I’ve also experienced some really terrible ones. The terrible ones stick with me as I think about the tremendous cost per hour to have your sellers all in one room

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Topics:Sales EnablementLeadershipProfessional Development

by Shawn Karol Sandy

Here’s a new approach to the profession of sales. For years, we’ve seen the reputation of sellers slide into a negative, pushy obnoxious stereotype of the “don’t-take-no-always-be-closing” pushers portrayed in movies such as The Wolf of Wallstreet, The Boiler Room, and Glengarry Glen Ross. Personally, it pisses me off that

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Topics:LeadershipProfessional DevelopmentSales StrategyCustomers

by Shawn Karol Sandy

I can usually diagnose problems pretty quickly. I work hard to do so because of that whole “time is money” theory. I like to think it’s a combination of listening, experience, perception, and intuition that makes me a keen consultant. Like a bloodhound for revenue issues —but one who loves

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Topics:B2B SalesLeadershipProspectingProfessional DevelopmentCommunicationSales StrategySellingSmall Business

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