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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…
It’s not the size of your network, it’s the value in your network.
Having more connections on any social media is good, but having a strong network that you support and help is key. Likewise, a network that supports and helps you is much better. How do you add some value to your netw…
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…
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…
What behaviours do you chose to adopt?
Here's the output from ten business people, across a wide range of industries, on what they like and dislike about others that they've dealt with that day.
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When I was 25 years old, you couldn’t tell me or train me in anything, as a salesperson I knew it all, I was hitting my targets, achieving my bonus and living the life of riley. It is only now a few (ahem!) years on that I realise how little I really knew and understood and how important person…
It’s official we are now in the full throws of a general election campaign. So, what do the politicians need to achieve? Well, they need to win our votes, so they need to start selling themselves and explaining why we should vote for them.
In the last general election, of those eligible …
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to be sitting in and observing an NRT Sales and Marketing seminar at one of the North East’s leading Universities. The audience was made up of professors, lecturers and post-doctoral research students, from many different departments of the university each …
Phone based selling is an important part of many organisations overall sales strategy.
The phone acts as a quick and efficient way of having conversations with a number of prospective customers. From charities to aerospace engineers, we have had the opportunity to work with a huge spectrum…
Broken windows and soft selling. How do these fit together?
Let me explain. I have been rereading Malcolm Gladwells “The Tipping Point”; part of the book talks about the well-publicised broken windows theory that was first introduced by social scientists Read More
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