Pay-off: Stop selling that. Sell this. Investment: 2.5 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here That thing, idea, or service you think you’re selling – it could be getting in your way. You could be banging your head against the wall (or the competition) making your life much harder than it needs to be. You’d …
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Pay-off: set yourself up to win Investment: 3 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here Happy New Year! Time to reset. There’s uncertainty ahead. You are where you are. And you want to be where you want to be. So what, in 2017, are you going to do about it? It’s that time of year …
Pay-off: Clarity on your next important sale (it could be your next job!) Investment: 2 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here Many people in sales are blind or unclear about this. So let’s just clarify, regardless of your job title… You’re not really in sales If you’re selling something that people are already lining …
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Payoff: An engine that prevents you failing Investment: 10 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here This post is probably for you. That’s if you’re trying to achieve something worthwhile in your work of life. Usually I write for those in ‘non-sales’ who want to improve how they sell, influence the thinking of others, or …
Pay-off: Grow your confidence to grow your sales Investment: 4 minutes Sign up to weekly posts here Some say that confidence sells. Some say that trust sells. The Oxford dictionary suggests they’re both right, as it tells us that ‘confidence’ is about expressing an intensive force of ‘trust’: Late 16th century: from French confident(e), from …
Pay-off: Never again struggle to introduce yourself Investment: <4 minutes You’re about to meet someone for the first time, step into the unknown, and hopefully strike up an enjoyable conversation. It could be your next valuable business, career, or sales relationship that might just be the turning point you’ve been waiting for. But first, you’re …
Pay-off: spot the hidden valuable opportunities Investment: <2 minutes Many people in BD seem to have ‘opportunity planning’ all wrong. Either they don’t do it at all, they don’t do it enough, or they do it and begin to believe that things will go to plan, being unprepared then to deal with unexpected surprises or …
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Pay-off: overcome procrastination, make work more rewarding and get home on time Investment: 4 minutes You procrastinate don’t you? Even though people have told you to “break things into small parts” and “just do it!”, you still procrastinate. Why? Because these two pieces of common advice don’t address the root cause of the problem. And …
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Pay-off: future-proof your career immediately Investment: < 2 mins Are you comfortable in your career? If so, you might be a sitting duck. As time progresses, your comfort zone becomes uncomfortable. It’s inevitable. It’s either happening right now, and you’re feeling it, or it’s about to happen sometime soon… What is more comfortable, as time progresses, …
Pay-off: identify more sales opportunities Investment: 5 mins Many sales people say to me that they just don’t know the best questions to ask their clients. Let’s start turning that around right now… The best? My first reaction to that statement is usually, “why do you need the best?” They almost always reply along the …
