Several posts back, I shared how one of my clients was focused on how BIG and monumental the sale was for her and for her customers. She was suffering from a bit of self-sabotage by projecting her emotions and insecurity on to her customer and letting fear of closing the

We’re back this week with another blog post on how to avoid sales fails. This time, I asked another Women Sales Pro member, Joanne Black, “What would be the one thing, you would tell sellers to stop doing immediately?” Being the sales industry authority and go-to expert on Referral Selling,

When one of our clients asks us to work with their sales team on revenue growth, we first conduct some interviews of the sales people and ask, “What do you need to do your job better?” they usually answer with one of these two responses: “More aggressive pricing” and “More

This week marks the start of the last quarter of the year for most businesses. There are holidays, parties, vacations and lots of fun to be had between now and 2016 but don’t think that letting off the gas now and coasting is going to get set you up to

What do Monkeys have to do with building relationships to increase sales? A lot, actually. Stick with me here. In the 1990’s, British anthropologist, Robin Dunbar, studied primates and found a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. By using the average human brain size and extrapolating

There is no shortage of advice on business—building it, running it, growing it (ah, ahem hence, our blog). Much of the wisdom we hear doesn’t resonate with us right away—perhaps not until we’re in circumstances that give it context. But most everyone has those one or two pieces of life

In the last post, we talked about how to make your sales presentations better—improving the focus of the content and delivery. This week, using more examples from our clients, we present a more specific context of your proposals—a mistake that’s made quite often when we listen to sales pitches which

Seems like a weird question I’d ask in a “professional” setting, right? I mean, unless you’re a 3 year old or a perhaps an inebriated frat pledge at a Toga party (do they still have those?) you’ve probably never walked out the door without your pants. But perhaps you’re doing

With several Sales Kick Off meetings on the books for this first quarter, we have a lot of “selling” talk going on in our office as we develop content, slides and breakout sessions. The one thing we’re not talking about in our Sales Kick Off meetings: Sales Techniques. Selling has

It’s not hard to find inspiration for our Sauce Agency blog posts. We’re constantly assessing our every day interactions for the best and most common selling situations that we can learn from or highlight. This week’s post was a lay up thanks to a couple of guys going door to