In the last blog I asked you if you had a strategy to grow your business and after making you feel a little queasy, I promised to help you out with 4 steps to building an effective sales strategy. Selling more is a sales strategy and planning and executing, measuring

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

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

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

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

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

Resolutions. People either love them or hate them. January 1st is just another day to many people, much like a Monday. Regardless of how you feel about fresh starts on the first day of the year, revisiting your business goals annually (semi-annually and quarterly as well) is vital to business

I recently recorded a session for a Virtual Sales Summit along with three super-smart counterparts—and our focus was on Coaching the Next Generation of Sales Leaders. My contribution to our sales coaching discussion was: 3 Keys to Coaching Behavior Changes Coaching is one of those broad, ambiguous titles. Some folks

Thank you, Memphis! We are beyond grateful to everyone who voted for us in The Memphis Flyer’s annual Best of Memphis Awards! Hitting a three-year streak as our city's Best Creative Agency is an honor that we don’t take lightly! Click here to check out all of the winners. Even

I get frustrated sometimes. More often than I’d like to admit. I found myself explaining the story of Jack and the Beanstalk to a salesperson last week, a very young salesperson, who didn’t get my reference when I said, “There are no magic beans.” It seems that Jack and the