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Sales Efficiency – Has Google Provided Us With the Golden Egg?
- September 10, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
It’s 6 AM and we need to plan our day. Oh boy.
There are 87 emails that came in since 6PM yesterday, 2 internal meetings, 3 external meetings, 5 phone meetings and 14 items on the to-do list that must be completed today, including proposals, follow ups, job offers and CRM updates. Whew!
Does that sound like you and your typical day?
With all of the demands on our time, it’s more important than ever that we become more efficient. Some of that can be accomplished through the use of tools, but as with all automation, if you don’t have a good manual process, the automated process probably won’t help.
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7 New Ways to Motivate Salespeople Through 20 Old Hurdles
- September 8, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
But what about those who are intrinsically-motivated – those who are motivated by satisfaction, fulfillment, praise and recognition. They want to change the world. They love what they do and want to achieve mastery. That motivates them. OMG is able to differentiate between intrinsically-motivated and extrinsically-motivated salespeople, but how do you manage those who are intrinsically-motivated? How do you get them to perform when they are interested in things that go beyond a commission check?
Perhaps this will help:
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Keys to Improved Sales Performance – Part 4 of 4
- September 5, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If you are like most folks, you were away for at least part of the summer, took as many long weekends as you could, and worked fewer hours on the days you actually did work. As part of getting the work done, you deleted as many emails as you could where a reply wasn’t required and visited fewer websites and blogs.
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Keys to Improved Sales Performance – Part 2 of 4
- September 3, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
If you are like most folks, you were away for at least part of the summer, took as many long weekends as you could, and worked fewer hours on the days you actually did work. As part of getting the work done, you deleted as many emails as you could where a reply wasn’t required and visited fewer websites and blogs.
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Keys to Improved Sales Performance – Part 1 of 4
- September 2, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
This is the first in a four-part series that will run this week.
If you are like most folks, you were away for at least part of the summer, took as many long weekends as you could, and worked fewer hours on the days you actually did work. As part of getting the work done, you deleted as many emails as you could where a reply wasn’t required and visited fewer websites and blogs.
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Starting with the Sales Management Team – Is it a Bad Decision?
- August 21, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Companies typically have 5 reasons for starting with the sales managers:
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Why You Must Understand This about Desire for Sales Success
- August 20, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
One of the most frequent questions we get from clients has to do with the second most important finding on Objective Management Group’s (OMG) sales and sales management evaluations. “This is one of my top salespeople – how can she possibly lack Desire for sales success?”
It’s a great question and I hope to explain it fully here.
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Getting Emotional at Dunkin Donuts, and Over Social Selling
- August 18, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
My sudden inability to comprehend what was taking place is what happens when your mind is elsewhere. It happens to salespeople when they aren’t able to stay in the moment, maintain complete focus on what their prospects are saying, and respond without thinking several moves ahead or, more typically, about what they want to say. It’s a form of being emotional.
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Top 10 Reasons Why Inbound Cannot Replace Sales
- August 15, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Well, it’s really happened now.
I was following a discussion in the Hubspot VAR Group on LinkedIn, where the question posed to the group was whether or not the first sales hire should be a sales or a marketing person.
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Top 10 Mistakes Salespeople Make on the Phone (Funny Read)
- August 13, 2014
- Posted by: Dave Kurlan
- Category: Understanding the Sales Force
Earlier this week, I wrote the “Get Your Butt Out of Your Head” article. At that same tournament, I heard an even funnier story from its director. He told us about a team who went 0-7, losing each game by the mercy rule. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, if a team is losing by 12 runs or more after 4 full innings, the game is stopped, showing mercy to the team who was getting slaughtered.