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Carole Mahoney

Carole Mahoney
Carole Mahoney was among the first Hubspot Partners and is an entrepreneur's evangelist. Today she trains and coaches other entrepreneurs to grow their business with inbound.
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Should sales managers coach?

This post has been sitting in draft for a few weeks because for me, there is no easy answer. When I heard Chris Beall, the CEO from Connect and Sell say at the Sales 2.0 conference in Boston that he didn’t believe that sales managers should coach-...

Sales coaching, training and process- chicken or the egg?

This post started as a debate between sales coaching and training- which should come first? 

A Sales Coach Can't Help You

Have you ever heard a child say “I want to be a salesperson when I grow up”? Probably not, very few of us plan on being a salesperson. We either wander into it, or are forced into it because we end up being self employed. Most, especially startups,...

10 Things I Learned About Sales from Waitressing

Throughout high school and college, I waited tables (I have done pretty much every job function you can think of within a restaurant- except own one.) And unlike popular opinion, I enjoyed it. It allowed me to be social, was fast paced and active,...

The most unexpected way to prep for your next sales call or meeting

When we hear as salespeople that we need to understand our buyer, it sounds so easy to do. Ask enough questions and you will get a picture of their world and what is going on in their minds, right?

Why don't some people hustle?

This is a question I have been obsessed with for a long time. Why don’t people want to change?

Why don’t they want to hustle? Is it that they are:

1- too lazy, they want a handout? A lot of salespeople think that their company should pay to fix...

Why do salespeople fail?

This was one of the latest questions asked in a sales forum that generated over 40 comments. The poster asked, “ Great companies struggle everyday. They have talented sales people, but they consistently battle sales roadblocks. What are the most...

What are the fundamentals of sales?

There was a recent conversation happening among sales leaders, managers, and representatives around the question “Does mastering the fundamentals lead to improved sales performance?”

No surprise that the answer was yes, of course it does. What did...

How has the communication pie chart changed?

Several recent coaching sessions prompted me to think even more about how the traditional communication pie chart has changed. Traditionally it states that 93% of is non-verbal, ie: 55% is body language and tone is 38%, whereas 7% are the words that...

Should you take notes during sales meetings?

I used to think that no one was better at multitasking than I was. At one point in my life, I was a single mom, full time student, landlord, and worked full time on the ground floor of a really cool tech start up. Multitasking was my life. My mom...