When you first started your own business, you set goals for each segment of your strategy. How you approach sales should be no different. Having all the tools, knowledge and teams in place is a great start to building a robust sales strategy for next year. But you...

Here’s a sales story for you. A business owner accompanies her top salesman to a sales meeting with the “big fish” client the rep has been working to reel in for months. The rapport is great. The salesman hit a homerun with the presentation material. But when he asks...

With your sales process clearly defined, you’ll start seeing results. Closing more sales means you're landing more business. And you’ll soon find yourself needing a bigger team because of your growth. Developing a sales team involves more than just a few meetings to...

The nature of sales is ever-changing. Sales isn’t a static process. After all, sales is about inspiring people and people change their minds and preferences all the time. So, as you carve out your company sales funnel and strategy, you should always be looking for a...

When you first start out in business, you can’t afford to miss a sale. You actually need that revenue, probably more in the beginning than any other time in your company journey. Making sales won’t just sustain your business, though. If leveraged correctly, they can...

You might be old enough to remember the old-school reputation of the “traveling salesman.” This guy wore a suit, was a smooth talker and targeted stay-at-home wives with promises of impressive vacuums. That worked back in the old days because those women were the...

You might be able to get by or fake it ‘til you make it in a sales meeting or with your elevator pitch. But if you don’t have a handle on your sales funnel, it won’t be long before you’re running short on sales conversions. So this is the sales roadmap you and your...

We talk a lot about the emphasis on branding and marketing as pillars of your business success. But in the end, if you can’t sell or don’t have a strong sales strategy in place, relying on these other parts of your business won’t sustain you. If you’re afraid to make...