Do You Hold Sales Meetings or Sales RALLIES?

As a sales manager, one of your toughest tasks is to come up with ideas for effective sales rallies. Unfortunately, many sales rallies (a.k.a. meetings) are thrown together at the last minute. If you want your team to have a “Let’s go crush it this week!” attitude, here are a few ideas to implement into your next rally (not meeting!).

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25 Easy Ways to Impress Your Sales Prospect

Put on your consumer hat for a moment. When was the last time a sales presentation really impressed you? Most companies get busy and forget to focus on creating memorable moments for their buyers. Here are 25 quick and easy ways to impress your customers.

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4 Ways to Restore Your Sanity on A Bad Sales Day

We must deal with a common fact in the world of sales: we only have limited control over our environment. Despite your plans for a productive day, there is a constant stream of variables that can pop up and rob us of our productivity. Sometimes all it takes is to step back and reassess what you CAN control in the situation.

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Why Your Emotional Endorsement Matters to Your Buyer

As a sales person, you should use Emotional Endorsement to promote your product or service before your customer is even introduced to it, sees it, or uses it. Unfortunately, most salespeople become desensitized to their own product and service. Ryan Taft shows you how to intensify your customers’ experience, to maintain excitement about your product or service.

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How to Make It Easy for Your Customer to Buy from You

Decision-making is really an exercise in how to process uncertainty. Even small decisions cause uncertainties that increase our mental dissonance. The task of the salesperson is to make it easy for a buyer to buy. Our responsibility is to move our customer from cognitive strain to cognitive ease; from disfluency to fluency.

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3 Questions to Ask Yourself After a Bad Sales Week

Having a bad sales day? Eh. Shrug it off. Chalk it up to being “just one of those days.” Having a bad sales month? Okay. Pause. Time to evaluate. Amy O’Connor says that bad sales months happen to the best salespeople. So, while a bad sales month isn’t necessarily fatal, it’s wise to self-critique and see if any negative patterns exist so you can make plans to improve.

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3 Surprising Ways to Impress Your Customers

Impressing customers isn’t actually that hard to do – if you are consciously intentional about doing so. Unfortunately, too many salespeople have put customer service on cruise-control – and the customer can tell! Here are three simple but surprising ways to impress your customers right now.

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3 Sales Lessons You Need to Learn From…Tom Brady

At the top of the list for greatest player ever is Joe Montana, one of the coolest big-game athletes in any sport. Ever. Joe Montana was talent times toughness times leadership. He was the complete package. But then along came Tom Brady. And he has challenged me to question the once unthinkable idea that someone could be better than Joe Montana. (I can’t believe I just wrote that.)

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