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Performance Improvement Plan
Sales Best Practices

Be Known As A Great Leader, Not As A Feared Terminator

Let’s face it, turning a B or C player into an A player is a lot less expensive than turning them over. While sometimes its necessary to release an under-performing sales rep, its often not the best solution for your business. Performance management is difficult, and so is often either Read more…

By Mat Forester, 2 years2 years ago
Stop telling customers what they want
Sales Best Practices

Stop Telling Customers What They Want!

The best advice you can get on how your company should approach the industry is to ask your customers! More importantly, ask your potential customers. But you need to be willing to listen, even if its not what you think is right. A few years ago my partner and I Read more…

By Mat Forester, 2 years2 years ago
Push vs Pull Leadership
Sales Management

You Can’t Push A Sales Team, But You Can Pull One!

Why do they call it leading? Why do you lead a horse with lead-reins? Well, have you ever tried pushing a horse from behind? I certainly hope not. Some things should be obvious in sales leadership, but far too often are ignored. Let’s talk about push vs pull leadership. I Read more…

By Mat Forester, 2 years2 years ago
Goals Versus Resolutions
Sales Best Practices

Resolutions Are Hard

As January comes to an end, how are you doing with your 2019 New Years’ Resolutions? Did you give up already? If you’re off to a good start in keeping your resolutions, then you’re only 8% of the people who keep their resolutions. We all have good intentions, but let’s Read more…

By Greg Hahn, 2 years2 years ago
Is Your Company Organized
Operations

Is Your Company Organized?

A few years back I worked with a $100 million company in the commercial construction industry that was falling short each year on hitting its revenue growth goals. They had an alignment issue. Sales wasn’t aligned to marketing, and neither of those were really aligned to operations and customer service. Read more…

By Mat Forester, 2 years2 years ago
How To Properly Set Sales Goals
Operations

How To Properly Set Sales Goals

It’s Q4, and time to set budgets and sales goals for 2019. One recent trend I’ve seen in many organizations is the grave mistake of using stretch goals as the target. This is a mistake on several levels. Many sales leaders believe that the best way to motivate performance from Read more…

By Mat Forester, 2 years2 years ago
How To Set Up An Action Plan
Operations

How To Set Up An Action Plan That Will Deliver Growth

It’s November, and right now most companies have a pretty good idea of where they will end 2018 against their annual goals. Most are finalizing budgets, revenue and margin targets, performance management plans and capital purchasing plans for 2019. Sounds great in theory, but what I see most often is Read more…

By Mat Forester, 2 years2 years ago
building rapport
Sales Best Practices

How To Build Rapport

You’ve probably heard the saying in sales that “People do business with people they like.” But what makes people like you? If you follow the sales tactics in the movie Glengarry Glen Ross, chances are not too many customers like you. But do people really “like” you or do they Read more…

By Greg Hahn, 2 years2 years ago
Stop Selling Start Building TRUST
Sales Best Practices

How to Stop Selling And Start Building Trust

It’s time to detach from the traditional sales way of thinking. You know what I’m talking about. The “Always Be Closing” mentality. It’s time sales organizations abandon the “what have you done for me lately” micro-management garbage that’s unfortunately still ever so common in many sales organizations. New methods and Read more…

By Greg Hahn, 3 years3 years ago
trust proven sales process
Sales Best Practices

T.R.U.S.T. – The only sales process that works

Throughout my 15 year sales career, I’ve had the privilege of working for several successful sales companies–both as an outside sales rep and as a sales manager. Each company had their own sales process. Often times, these sales processes were complicated and as a manager, it was expected of me Read more…

By Greg Hahn, 3 years3 years ago

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