When it comes to sports, with the exception of College Football and the NBA finals, I would much rather be an active participant than to just sit back and watch others play. I’m the same way with selling. Somehow, watching others make sales instead of me has never been my favorite pastime. In the world
When I initially decided to consider whether or not to get involved with Social Media, this was one of the very first questions I asked myself. It was like selling fax machines when they first became commercially available. All I heard was …. “This is pretty cool but, nobody I know has one so who
Actually, I do. For that matter, so would anybody who has ever sold something. Quick! How can you tell when a salesperson is lying to you? His lips move. How about a buyer? Same answer. LOL. Come on people! You know it’s true. As a buyer, I lie to sales people everyday. During my career
Columbo! A classic! So classic, in fact, that he has a “close” named after him. Peter Falk was the absolute master when it came to acting befuddled. For those of you are too young, he would feign defeat when questioning the suspect, start to walk away (thereby disarming them) and then stop, turn around, and
Social CRM Does Not Need To Be That Complicated
How about we make it K.I.S.S. … Keep It Simple Salesperson. This becomes extremely important because salespeople will be frontline CRM users and these same salespeople almost universally hate the thought of being saddled with a CRM. Why do we know this to be true? Simply stated, a large majority of good salespeople share three
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