Whether you are a President, Sales Leader or Sales Rep, the ability to grow revenue is typically a top priority. Even if a company or region is growing, the question is what is the revenue potential for that defined area and how would you go about maximizing that potential? This…
If you have ever watched the NFL Draft, you can feel the tension and drama when the Commissioner announces a draft pick to the world and then proclaims the next team that is “On the Clock”. In that scenario, the NFL team has a set amount of time to make…
One of our Partners, CEO Patrick Thean from Gazelles Systems, wrote a great little book called Execute Without Drama. I love the title. The premise is relatively simple around the power of clear goals, accountability and metrics. This clear linkage between strategy and execution not only produces better results, but…
There are all kinds of interesting discussions we get involved in re the Art and Science of Sales. Ponder this for a second as you think about the strategy, structure, processes and tools that exist within your Sales organization. What would happen if your Finance department operated in a similar…
At the close of a two day sales strategy and training event with a client last week, the question was asked whether Buyers go through similar preparation and training. Although we made the joke that we were doing the same work with their Buyers next week, there is a certain…
As a big proponent of Verne Harnish’s Rockefeller Habits http://www.gazellessystems.com/Gazelles-Systems-Canada , I believe that this statement from Verne applies in all areas of business; especially sales. I had the opportunity to sit down with a successful business owner the other day and he brought some interesting insights to…
We spend a lot of time talking with Executives and Sales Leaders about their Sales related priorities and current challenges. An area of opportunity that I would put forward as low hanging fruit is doing comprehensive Win/Loss Analysis on an ongoing basis. The information is extremely valuable and helps you…
Value Proposition is a term like Partner that is both over used and misunderstood in the business world today. I have borrowed a definition that I learned at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management that I have used for 15 years and shapes work we do in this area. In…
I had the good fortune to spend the early days of my business career with one of the preeminent sales companies and sales training cultures in the world. Investment in their people (Managers and Reps) was a constant and an important point of differentiation. This was a big company and…
Over the past few weeks I’ve been fortunate to have had meetings with a dozen B2B sales leaders. What struck me as interesting was that out of those dozen meetings only one of the sales leaders had a large whiteboard in his office. I’ve known this individual for a…