5 Mistakes People Make in Sales Meetings – #2 Robot

October 2nd, 2015

The face-to-face meeting with a client, especially the first one, is the single most important event in the sales process. Stumbling block #2 during meetings with new potential clients (read #1-No Traction) takes on the business mantra: "It's not personal, it's just business." If you lose a piece of business with a client to a competitor, does it feel personal? When a startup entrepreneur gets angel funding, do you think it feels personal? When you’ve invested ten years building a team, does it feel personal when that team succeeds or fails? No matter what we think or say, part of being human is that most things that happen to us feel personal Read More...

Sales and Analogy

September 12th, 2015

“That reminds me of French Impressionism in the late 1800’s.” “What are you talking about?” said my future client. “In the second half of the 19th century,” I continued, “the annual Paris Salons controlled the commercial art world. If you didn’t go to the academy and paint in the traditional romantic style, you couldn’t get an exhibition at the Salon Read More...

Bar Talk

May 31st, 2011

"What's really valuable," I hear one salesperson after another tell me, "is getting together informally with sales colleagues and hearing the latest stories about what people are doing. What are their recent successes, big or small, and their recent embarrassing failures. These meetings, usually at a bar or over lunch, are informative, motivational and give me the feeling that we can help each other out Read More...