For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.
Moving continuously forward doesn’t necessarily get us to where we want to be, just somewhere other than where we started.
No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination. You can revel, again and again, in the glory of a fairy tale doo...
How do I go about cataloguing my dreams?
Asking the appropriate questions means understanding exactly what your customer is trying to achieve
You may have an overall target to achieve with each prospect, but if you are going to have an ideal outcome for each call, should you not also have a tolerable outcome to fall back on? Something you a...
Where he comes from, the education he has received, his family history, his wealth, they matter not a jot, but the perception he conveys - that my, boy, is the key. If they believe he belongs - that h...
Great selling involves helping people to make great buying decisions.
You can’t know what you don’t know
Ready? No one is ever ready, my boy. But some do what they plan to do and some never will. The difference between the two is that the first group understand that they need to start somewhere, so they...
Plans are easy to make, dreams are easy to dream. But putting your back into it? A little bit of hard graft and discipline? That is just too scary and far too much effort for the masses
Nobody ever kicked a dog wagging its tail
Currently, you are approaching each opportunity with a single possible outcome and when that doesn't happen you fool yourself that there was nothing more that you could have done.
Focusing on Earning the Right will have an incredible effect on the success of every single sales call that you will make from this day on.
Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?
Executing the solution means gaining customer commitment and delivering on your promises
Sometime in the future, when business slumps and there appears to be no solution in sight, you will hear others moaning about and blaming the things that are completely out of their control, wasting h...
The only time you have is the where and when of right now. There will always be good times, bad times, hard times, and complete disasters. However, there is no other option but to be where you are, wh...
Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you’re the best person for the job
In many instances, the words sell and influence are completely interchangeable.