Blog Cover Image 1

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.
Find me on:

Recent Posts

How do you react to really bad news?

Photo via craftivist collective on Flickr

Last weekend I got some really bad news from someone close to me. In the past, getting this type of news would have sent me into a stressed emotional state that would have started a fight.

Others handle bad...

Referrals Are the True Goal of the Sales Process

My grandmother founded and ran one of the first female owned real estate agencies in MA in the late 70’s early 80’s (so I am told). Every month there was a real estate association networking meeting where brokers would network and get to know each...

Is your prospect's buying process wrong?

A few months ago, I had a conversation with Adam Zais. We were discussing the new state of sales, the empowered buyer, and inbound. Somewhere along the way Adam said, "A sales person's job is to help people buy." To which I added, "To help them buy...

Rude or Incompetent?

Yesterday on a group sales coaching session, one marketing agency owner had a prospect who was comparing their agency against two others. Their contact was pressuring them to create a pitch, sales proposal, and answer a series of questions that had...

No Proposals Before You Close

How do you close the sale that has had a proposal out for a month now but which you still have no word on?

Not just close it using tricks, but how to do it right, and comfortably, to make sure it is profitable for both parties? This is especially...

Group Therapy for Sales People

Whether you are working remotely as a salesperson, or you are a business owner or founder who sells, it gets isolating. The thoughts in our minds play tricks with us, make us doubt our abilities, erode our confidence, and can lead to other very real...

Personal branding lessons for sales people from Game of Thrones

When the concept of a "personal brand" was first mentioned to me, I took issue with the idea.

Admittedly, I'm not a "branding" type of person. It just seems so impersonal. People want to buy from people, not brands. The beauty of the Internet is...

When Sales Coaching is More Than Sales Coaching

For the past few months, I have been working with my sales mentor, with marketing agency owners, and with other professional consultants to help them grow their businesses by closing more sales. Here is my why.

Selling as an Entrepreneur is Different

I was once on a call with a marketing agency owner... let’s call her Linda. On this call, I discovered that she was successful in company sales as an inside rep. She was a well trained and successful sales person previously, with a well-known brand.

3 Sales Strategies for Marketing Agencies from Fishing Grizzly Bears

I have had a lot of conversations with marketing agency owners who were looking for growth. A few were even bold enough to say they wanted that specific year to be their million dollar year of sales. But how?

Have you ever considered how grizzly...