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January 6, 2019 - Quenching Your Customer’s Thirst for Value

Quenching Your Customer’s Thirst for Value

Selling water to a thirsty person should be easy, right? Not so fast. Salespeople often miss the big opportunity because they fail to expand the conversation beyond making the simple sale. Many times customers need more than a simple answer to an immediate problem—they need a way out of the desert.

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January 6, 2019 - Quenching Your Customer’s Thirst for Value

By Michael Leimbach and David Yesford

Selling water to a thirsty person should be easy, right? Not so fast. Salespeople often miss the big opportunity because they fail to expand the conversation beyond making the simple sale. Many times customers need more than a simple answer to an immediate problem—they need a way out of the desert. learn more

February 1, 2018 - Filling Your Pipeline with the Right Kinds of Prospects: Part 3 of 3: Right Message, Right Person

By David Yesford

Identifying the "right" prospects to target is only part of the sales prospecting battle. The key to gaining access is to present the right message to the right person. But to achieve access the salesperson needs to create a relevant message that is compelling to their target prospect’s business. If a salesperson can’t uncover your customer’s problems and needs they don’t stand a chance at selling them a solution. learn more

January 25, 2018 - Filling Your Pipeline with the Right Kinds of Prospects: Part 2 of 3: Convert Your Strong Suspects to Good Prospects

By David Yesford

How can I determine a Strong Suspect from a Good Prospect? People buy for their own reason, not yours and therefore, experienced salespeople know that there needs to be evidence of obvious mutual benefit in a potential sales relationship. When salespeople make the link between what the customer needs and what you have to offer, it becomes easier for salespeople to invest their time into only targeting the strongest prospects. learn more

January 22, 2018 - Filling Your Pipeline with the Right Kinds of Prospects: Part 1 of 3: Target the Right Suspects

By David Yesford

The most successful salespeople know how to identify a good prospect. Instead of playing a numbers game, they ask, "Which companies are most likely to be good for us?" By knowing their ideal customer, salespeople can make earlier go/no-go decisions and invest their time in a smaller group of companies most likely to offer good business opportunities. learn more

November 9, 2016 - Do you have the stomach for employee engagement?

By Tom Roth

Early in my career, I worked for an NFL quarterback who is now in the Hall of Fame. Late in his career he was having trouble throwing the long passes downfield, and his production dropped off dramatically. The team feared his arm was “dead.“ They ran every test possible to diagnose and fix his arm to no avail. learn more

October 18, 2016 - Learning and Development as a Strategic Voice in the Organization

By David Yesford

To address this crucial role of connecting talent development to an organization’s complex growth strategies, L&D must strategically go beyond the need expressed by one person, one department, or one executive and help to define what the business truly needs. Let’s explore three key principles that point the way to becoming a trusted L&D adviser. learn more

January 27, 2016 - Successful Sales Enablement: Bridging the Gap between Strategy and Execution (As seen on Selling Power blog)

By Wendy Mack

In working with sales organizations around the globe, I have found that everyone wants a piece of the sales force. Internal functions such as marketing, training and development, R&D, and sales operations all have information they want to get out to sales. When these functions aren’t working together, the result tends to be costly chaos. learn more

April 7, 2015 - Accepting the Role of Romeo

By David Yesford

Be careful; it is easy to be drawn into accepting the role of Romeo, but if you do, you know how it ends! How do you move out of the expected roles of customer and vendor with well-defined roles and expectations to a side-by-side dialog that supports your customer’s expectation of value? learn more

February 3, 2015 - It’s Not What Happens to You, but How You React to It

By David Yesford

“Thanks for the $25.” Learn how you can use "self talk" to get past the negativity of sales rejection, and create a positive approach that achieves results. learn more

September 26, 2014 - RFPs… So You’re Telling Me There’s a Chance!

By David Yesford

“So you’re telling me there’s a chance. Yeah!” Sound familiar? You probably recognize these classic lines from the movie Dumb and Dumber, starring Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas, the eternal optimist. I’m not saying all requests for proposals (RFPs) are like this, but it sure does feel like it sometimes. learn more

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