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A Quick Sales Tip

Early in my career, I made a deal with American Express that lead to me generating about $5M a year in new sales for my company…and it eventually led to a $10M a year deal that was the largest of its kind at the time. Since I was early in my career, and didn’t really […]

Dave Wakeman’s 33 Questions You Can Use To Be Better At Business

I have been throwing out occasional posts about being better at business…and this one does and doesn’t fall into that category, so it doesn’t have the keyword attached. But here are 33 questions you can use to make yourself better at business: 1. What is my priority? 2. How can I do this better? 3. […]

Sales Is Everyone’s Job…

I read a lot of articles about how to get non-sales people to bring in leads. But a greater point is that sales should be everyone’s job in the organization. The sales function and sales process is much like the marketing process in my view…something that should be engrained into the whole of the organization.

Revenue Generation: Like Grabbing Cash From A Money Tree?

When you talk about revenue, you are often put in the position of making money grow on trees! Which isn’t actually true because in fact, most of changing and growing the revenue machinery of your organization is a process, just like any other process. Like any good process, there is just a series of patterns […]

Your Most Important Skill Isn’t Knowing Everything…

It is more readily, being able to ask very good questions. In the heat of a meeting or a sales call, we too often forget that the reason most of our clients and prospects are talking to us isn’t because of us…it is almost always because they have some problem that they think we can […]

Asking Better Questions…

I have a couple of young businesspeople that mentor. One of the topics we discuss a lot is the sales process and closing sales. Because the sales process and closing sales is a topic that requires books and books, I want to touch on one topic today… Asking Better Questions and how to do it […]

The Most Important Question You Can Ask In Business…

You can ask a lot of questions in business, but the most important one you can ask is simple: Why? Why are our sales slipping? Why is our marketing not gaining traction? Why isn’t our leadership communicating effectively with all of our team members? Why can’t we innovate? Why can’t we grow more quickly? You […]