Blog: The Pipeline

Presenting is not selling, salesfails, people earn business, sales pros

Are you Presenting, or are you SELLING (One of my personal #SalesFails)

Many times I have seen a sales person spend hours laboring over a presentation, packing it full of details, statistics, examples, graphs and graphics, pictures...
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How to Make Selling Your Competitive Advantage

There’s a certain comfort zone and preference most people have with the term “Marketing” versus “Selling”. Try telling someone “You’re going to start selling” and...
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Small Business, Employees sell, Motivate, Selling Organization

How to Motivate Your Small Business Employees to SELL

Most small businesses don’t yet have a sales team. All the “selling” has been shouldered by the owner from the launch and through the growth...
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Why Sales Process Solves Your Biggest Small Business Concern: CASH FLOW

You can say it in many ways. You can define it in many terms – from the technical to blunt: CASH FLOW is KING for...
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How Do You Get To The Value Conversations With Customers When They Just Want To Talk Price?

As progressive sales practitioners we work hard to get our clients focus on articulating and demonstrating their value to earn more sales. Recently, a business...
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Don't Do Boring Business: Tell Stories To Reach Customers

Don’t DO Boring Business: Tell Stories To Reach Customers

“Just the facts, ma’am” – is the iconic line parodying detective Joe Friday from the old show Dragnet. Meant to demonstrate the character’s dry approach...
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