How do I meet the activity levels that my manager is demanding and not turn my buyers off with spam? It is a question that comes up for me every week with sellers. And it's also a question that managers are struggling with as well, the competing...
Well, for first-time sales managers, this applies to whether you're adjusting to the pandemic. Because now, you might feel like a first-time sales manager. Again, like, a lot of sellers are feeling like first-time sellers, because everything's...
I've heard from a lot of people and from some of those that I coach is that this fear that if they do this buyer first approach and their buyer is wrong about how they're seeing their problem or categorizing the solution:
The product is never going to be right there. Right? Like I hear this a lot from Tech startups where sellers are coming into it. It's like, “Oh I could sell it if it did that” or “I could sell it if it did this”, and, “But that”.
So it's interesting that many people talk about: “it's either, or”. As if life was black and white and that we make decisions based completely on one or the other.
Being remote, the pandemic: In all honesty, I took for granted, how big of a shift this was going to be for people because I've been working remotely and virtually for over a decade. It's second nature to me. So I had to kind of go back to those...
I became even more of a fan of Andy Paul’s work when I read his latest book, Sell Without Selling Out. And I became a fan of this book from the very first quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Insist on yourself, never imitate”.