I’ve always been one of those salespeople who prefers to pick low hanging fruit wherever, and whenever, possible. Why climb tall trees if you can avoid it? Then, after all that, you get to the top only to find … no fruit! I started my B2B sales career knocking on doors. 30 cold calls per
I tend to be a CRM purist. While the lines between sales, marketing, and customer service have certainly blurred, I continue to see CRM as a sales-first tool. A see it as a vehicle to help me to sell more stuff and I use, I and represent, Nimble CRM to accomplish that goal. Here’s how
Maybe you’ve heard this before … “Oh, that guy, he’s an elephant hunter.” In my experience, this title has seldom been meant as a compliment. Rather, the connotation has been … “He’s too good to handle the little sales and/or if he spent less time hunting elephants, he would probably be at quota!” Perhaps. That
(by Craig M. Jamieson) I was reading an article by Todd Wasserman on Mashable the other day that was titled “Let’s Face it: Social Media Marketing Is a Waste of Time“. In this article the author points out: “The secret to good social media marketing: Make good products and offer good services. If you can’t trick people
Selling Fundamentals – Back to the Basics
A few weeks ago I was asked to coffee by a young man who I knew who was struggling a little bit with his selling. He was looking for some pearls of wisdom and probably a quick fix. I should also mention that, while he had a CRM, he rarely used it and did not
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