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

There is a predictable pattern to the evolution of a small business’ sales progress—starting with those scrappy bootstrapping days of a business starting up—to achieving growth and success. Along the way you realize that scaling means producing consistent sales results and needs a concerted team, structure, tools, and metrics and,

One of my earliest memories of the power of practice, repetition, and reinforcement was learning to tie my shoes. My favorite Aunt was babysitting me and helping me learn and practice my new skill. She had me tie all the shoes in our family of 5’s shoe closet several times

The holidays are about to roll in and roll over us in all their festive and glittery glory. It seems once we pass turkey day, the remaining few weeks of the year pick up steam like a snowball rolling downhill. For business, that means we’re starting to think about wrapping

Everyone’s making big promises, resolutions, and vowing to make changes right now just as the ball drops on this New Year. I’ve never had much use for making grand proclamations of my intent or magically thinking I’ll turn into someone who loves running, eating steamed broccoli, or clearing my pantry

Let’s talk about your sales and profit margins. How effective do you think your sales and/or marketing messages are? Are they compelling and converting leads in to opportunities and opportunities into customers with strong and healthy margins? At what rate? And at what cost to acquire a new customer? (If

If you asked 10 sales pros what their primary goal would be, you’d predictably get some variation of, “Close more deals,” or “Grow revenue,” or “Make my quota and bonus.” I like the eye on the prize mentality but question those answers as goals. They are outcomes. They are results

Sales is exhilarating. Selling is grueling. Sales is non-stop activity. Selling is exhausting. Sales is juggling competing priorities. Selling is chasing a constantly moving target. How do you keep filling your new business pipeline, juggling activities, reports, administrative stuff, client relationships, and avoiding burnout? Considering the recent (various) reports that

Look, y’all, you know the saying about opinions, right? That everyone has one and everyone is entitled to one. My opinion about sales advice is very strong and I give it freely—as a friend most recently described, I’m going to be “as honest as a toddler or yoga pants” with

“Oh crap. Is it too late to resuscitate?” Recently, a sales team found out the hard way that a client was pissed about something that happened several months ago. Unfortunately, they found out because they are being shut out of an enormous opportunity. They were coming at the opportunity from