I love books. I love the smell of books. I collect them. I download them. I listen to them. I strive to learn at least one thing from every book I read, and I usually read 2-3 books per week. One fictional book (historical fiction, mysteries,...
I am not, nor have I ever been, a morning person. Even at birth, I didn’t want to ‘wake up’ (I was 4 weeks over my due date- keep in mind this was in the 70’s…)
In grade school, I got scolded a lot from my mother to ‘get back to bed’ when I would...
Being the oldest of five, I had the fortunate experience of being the first to try things out. Phrases like “I can do it myself!” were common vernacular. To which my Nana and mom would often say “No one is an island, we are all connected. So stop...
Earlier this month at the AA-ISP Boston chapter meeting, Sangram Vajre and Trish Bertuzzi joined forces to discuss Account Based Revenue. It seems like everywhere I look lately, account based sales and marketing is being mentioned. I have to admit...
Over the last couple of weeks, we have been holding our Live Sales Labs every week. We don't normally do them that often, but with lots of people scrambling to close end of year deals- it seemed like a good way to help.
A few weeks ago I wrote about one of our clients whose sales manager who still sold and would take opportunities from him. He was a generally toxic manager that was a burden to work with.
On a previous coaching call when our client, let’s call him...
It’s the end of the calendar year and the topic on everyone’s mind, in their inbox, and at the water cooler is- how do we close these last deals? What do we need to pull out of the hat to meet our goal in these last days? What can really be done to...
“Do I need to hire a coach, or a trainer?”
A little background: This question has come up several times over the past few weeks, but with different variables because everyone’s business and situation is different. When I start noticing patterns in...
First thing on Monday morning one of our inside sales clients, let’s call him Scott, told us that their manager insisted that they send a proposal to all the opportunities in their pipeline that “might possibly close this month.” Didn’t matter what...
Yesterday was the beginning of 4Q16 (the beginning of the end), and I got up early to make sure I had time for plenty of coffee, yoga and reflection before I started the day with 90 minutes of back to back coaching calls at 8am. It`s not very often...
