How to Make Next March More Predictable
Professional Service Firms are probably the least likely of all businesses to know what their results next March are going to look like. Most professional service pipelines look rather more like a cliff edge than they do a smooth flow. Part of the reasons for this are inherent in the nature of professional service businesses. There’s [...]
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It’s Always Spring in Sales
Your March sales will be the result of all of the activity you have taken in Q4 - 2009, not between January 1st and March 31st, 2010. This article outlines some of the ways we can change the way we think about these dates to ensure we have planted the necessary seeds to harvest results later.
Categories: Sales Blogger, Uncategorized Tags: How Were Your March Sales?, Jim Rohn, quarter
March Madness, I’m Getting Ready
NCAA Basketball has a tremendous impact on my schedule starting now. I’m looking at the schedule, kind of planning my time backward. According to the NCAA Basketball site, final selection is on March 14, Opening Round Game is March 16, Fourth Round Completes on March 28 and the final four on April 3rd and 5th. I’m [...]
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International Salespeople Always Stay Connected
When I first heard my North American sales friends speak of how your March sales were determined by what you did in December, my first thought was how lucky some people have it if they only have to think of sales 3 months in advance. And I realized that as an international sales person used [...]
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5 Ways to Leverage History to Sell More
Selling is a profession of immediacy. Commission salespeople get paid for what they sell today. The presence of weekly, monthly, and yearly sales goals stresses the need for immediacy. Given all the attention on the “What have you sold for me lately” mentality of
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March-maddening people strategery and other habits I learned while trying to use Salesforce.com
ummm…. so March sales? Please stop telling me about your stupid pipeline. I know you have all the answers teed up for me. I don’t give a @#$%… I’m not your mom or you sales manager so stop pitching me on how amazing your three month selling cycle is. Frankly I don’t care. I am sure your pipeline [...]
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Why Your March Sales Suck
Journal entry: December 3, 2009 “My calendar is full and my sales are on track. Looks like I’ll end the year ahead of target. This means my boss will finally stop bugging me to get my sales on track. After several years of developing my client base, I’m making headway. That means I can finally relax [...]
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How To Engage Your Audience?
Engaging with new customers has always reminded me of a fine musician approaching an new piece of music or composition, there is a delicate balance of forces, energies and expectations. Add to that the fact that these emanate from and impact multiple participants in the process, the musician, the composer and the audience. Playing the role [...]
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