Do NOT make assumptions. Ask good questions! Of course, you’ve heard the old joke about assumptions make an ass out of you and an ass out of me. Salespeople assume answers to questions they don’t even ask. What do they assume? They assume that the prospect needs what they’re selling! Ignorant sales managers will tell […]
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SALES MANAGEMENT I’ve got a sales manager coaching client who has 8 sales rep direct reports. One day during one of our coaching sessions, he said to me, “Steve, I’ve got 2 great producing sales reps who outsell the other 6 reps on my team put together. If I could just get those 6 to […]
Continue readingBack in the Day…. When I was a small boy selling greeting cards and flower seeds door to door, both my paternal and maternal grandparents, all of my aunts and uncles – all 12 of them – worked in the textile mills in Aiken County, South Carolina. Sadly, both sets of grandparents and all but […]
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