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Are you missing these key sales skills?

Fiance got a sales call voice message from a pro sports team. No excitement, no value, no ‘what’s in it for me’ in message. He’s probably complaining he ‘never gets his phone calls returned,’ too. #wonderwhy pic.twitter.com/tGWcAjfcHF — Brett Zalaski (@bzalaski) May 4, 2018 I saw the above tweet last night and it got me […]

Building a Strategic Sales Plan

A few years back, I did a lot of talking about salespeople thinking like marketers. Somewhere I dubbed it the strategic salesman or something of the sort. As I was flipping through my notes this morning, I came across some ideas I had about this concept from about 2 years ago and thought I […]

Real value exists in impact

When we think of a strategy, we are often thinking about our ability to gain market share. But do we really think enough about why a strategy is important to the person on the other end of the equation, the customer? Many of us do, but only from the point of view of what […]

Revisiting the 3 Essential Questions of Strategy

Over time, I find myself returning over and over to the 3 questions that guide any strategic plan I develop or use. To cut to the chase, here are the 3: What value do I want to deliver to my customers? Who can use this value and will buy it? How do we reach […]

What is Value Built On?

All value is based on perception. I was listening to Seth Godin’s podcast, Akimbo, this morning and one of the questions talked about not being able to sell something that didn’t have tangible value. Which is false. Every purchase we make and every sale that is made isn’t built on real value, but the […]

Expressing Tangible Value In Your Marketing

Our marketing comes down to an expression of value. There are two main ways of expressing value to your clients and prospects, tangible value and intangible value. Tangible is physical or measurable. Intangible is often not physical and not something that you can quantify. How do we express value in a tangible way? Here […]

January 28, 2018
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You can learn a lot of stuff working the Exhibition Hall of a large trade show and conference. That’s why hanging out with Booking Protect last week was pretty eye opening and helped remind me of some very valuable sales and marketing ideas. Here are a few of them: Selling is about creating value: If […]

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