If you ask a “comfortable” salesperson how many calls they make a day, they’ll probably tell you thirty. Maybe forty on a busy Tuesday. They’ll talk about quality over quantity,…
It’s the silent killer of the sales cycle. You had a “great” discovery call. The demo went perfectly. You felt the chemistry, they could taste the ROI, and they promised…
The boardroom was getting loud. And I mean loud. Two stakeholders were arguing over a budget line item, their voices rising in pitch and volume. My client, a seasoned VP,…
Not long ago, a CEO in the Life Sciences space sat across from me, looking like he’d just gone ten rounds with a heavyweight. He had a brilliant product—an innovative…
Some might call it the ultimate sales brush-off… You’re mid-call, or maybe you’ve just nailed your opening hook, and the prospect drops the line: “This sounds interesting. Can you just…
You’ve done the work. You’ve memorized the case studies. And you’ve finally landed a meeting with the one person who actually holds the credit card. You walk into the room—or…
Companies don’t grow because they have a “Sales” sign hanging over a cluster of cubicles. They don’t grow because they bought the most expensive CRM on the market or because…
There is a dangerous myth in B2B sales that success is a marathon. We tell ourselves we have all year, or all quarter, to hit our numbers. We think we…
You can have the best product in the world. You can have a lead list that was hand-delivered by the gurus of Silicon Valley. You can even have a script…
Most sales leaders are addicted to the “Activity Trap.” They look at the dashboard, see 1,000 dials and 2,000 emails, and they sleep well at night. They think movement equals…