Being in sales requires being an optimist.  Regular rejection and the pressure of hitting your numbers means you have to believe in what you are doing.  Keeping your salespeople optimistic is a must and relying on their predictions of sales revenue requires some filtering.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you were fed a continuous diet of qualified leads?  How much more productive you could be if all you had to do was close deals all day.  Imagine the volume!  Imagine the bonus! Imagine is right.

In the fast-moving world of B2B sales, maintaining a fresh, modern, and cutting-edge sales philosophy is what’s really going to drive conversions all throughout your sales team and sales process. Now, there are a number of different ways you can go about implementing an effective sales philosophy, but one of the most cost-effective ways to go about it is to simply implore your sales leadership to provide strong coaching and mentoring for your lower-level sales representatives.

I have been truly humbled in my career, by working with and for amazing sales leaders. Even today in my sales consulting firm, I am constantly amazed at how these amazing individuals exhibit these behaviors and assets. I have not included in this blog assets like honesty, values, proven skills, trust, leadership and communication — I will leave these for another time. 

Let's spend a minute on disruption. Disruption as a word/phrase means: "A disruption is a major disturbance, something that changes your plans or interrupts some event or process."

As we all know and have probably experienced in our career, there are a lot of sales training programs out there in the marketplace. We typically sit in a room for hours or sometimes days listening to an instructor tell you how to close more deals or improve a certain skillset. . 

When hiring or recruiting talented sales people, hiring managers generally tend to look for someone who’s outgoing, confident, and fearless. These people are great on the phone and in meeting. They ask educated questions and get the close—if they enter a meeting with a prospect, they leave one step closer to closing a client.

Cliff is not your top sales performer. A “C” player at best, Cliff rarely makes his quota. And he never tries to improve. Cliff seems perfectly happy with the status quo, which bothers you as a sales leader whose younger years were spent as a hungry sales rep, always innovating your approach and working hard to exceed your own number. To top it all off, if Cliff could just up his numbers by 10%, it would help your branch move to second place in your company.

According to a new study conducted by Sales Mastery, sub-optimal sales management coaching is the top barrier impacting an organization’s ability to reach 2018 revenue targets.

I've learned countless lessons as Sales Result's CEO, some the result of great decision-making, others from making mistakes. Fifteen years later, I use these learnings to coach sales leaders to be the best version of themselves. Today's blog features five key points that I incorporate into every executive coaching engagement, and that I believe are incredibly important for any CEO or sales leader to remember.