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12 Sales of Christmas

At New Results, we're doing an alternative to The Twelve Days of Christmas

 

On the first sale of Christmas New Results gave to me...

One Mapped Customer Journey

What is the customer journey and more importantly, what is your customer's journey? For your fir…

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Gatekeepers

Gatekeepers and sellers

Who are you? No, not a blog about football chants or The Who's 1978 classic album, it's about the whole seller vs. gatekeeper piece.

"Gatekeeper". I'm not a fan of the word; no issue with the people, it's the word. Actually, you know what, it's less the word, it's more about what it now …

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Calendar

Should salespeople come with a sell by date?

 

I was thinking of this the other day. How on earth do you understand if your salespeople are, fresh, in date and wholesome? You need to think about this and you need to review regularly where your salespeople are.

In lots of other professional organisations and professional…

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dentist

Down in the mouth…or Took my breath away

I had a root canal filling a couple of weeks ago. The reaction from anyone I told was a combined wince and sharp intake of breath.

"Did it hurt?"

"It took an hour? I wouldn't fancy that."

"I hate the thought of going to the dentist: needles and drills!"

Naturally, I p…

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Router

The route(r) to better performance

 

I was asked to do a short presentation to explain what New Results does. So naturally I took along one of our old D-Link routers...

Imagine the excitement on the day that this (then) new router arrived: full of the promise of increased performance. Deciding that I was the rig…

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Mike

Apprenticeship experts turn to Mike for New Results

Great piece in Bdaily on our recent work with Baltic Training Services.

Baltic Training Services, based at Newton Aycliffe, are an innovative apprenticeship provider who work with leading employers in the IT sector across the country. When the expanding company wanted to generate more lea…

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myth

Common sales myths and their truths

Over the 30 years or so that I've been in sales/sales management/sales training, there's been the occasional myth that continues to do the rounds.  Here are three that still get trained out or cited as being true.

Myth #1: 55% of the meaning in face to face communication comes from body l…

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party

Selling to decision-makers & influencers. Lessons from a kid’s party.

It's great when a business owner recognises who the decision-makers and influencers are. Here's a short story about a kid's party.

If you have children under the age of 10, chances are they're at birthday parties on a frighteningly regular basis.

Really, just how many friends can a …

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wedding

How is closing like a marriage proposal?

A lot is said about “closing the deal” or “closing techniques”, and some of the traditional methods are still very useful and at the same time, some new closing techniques are worth exploring.

Firstly let’s define what stages there are in winning more business, increasing your sa…

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cost value matrix

Value based selling

As Warren Buffett is credited as saying, "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

If I had a penny for every time a salesperson told me that their customers only ever buy on price, well I'd have a pile of pennies. And yet, the evidence points elsewhere. Here's just a few examples fr…

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Helpful resources...

We spend a lot of time researching our training courses and once we’ve found something useful we love to share it. So here’s some useful free resources for you to read, watch and use.

Resources:

Assessing Your Learning and Development Needs

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Building Trust in a Digital World

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Your Networking Guide