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Why The Wolf Of Wall Street Is Dead Wrong About "Sell Me This Pen"

Oct 8, 2014

Martin Scorsese's 2013 black comedy, "The Wolf of Wall Street", featuring Leonardo DiCaprio as the infamous stock-broker and salesman, Jordan Belfort, contains a classic "Sell me ...

Sales Management

Stop Being A Pinocchio Sales Leader

Oct 2, 2014

Are you a "Pinocchio Sales Leader", wasting time, energy, and resources due to your belief that every salesperson has potential? Unfortunately, it is not uncommon to observe ...

Sales Culture

Should Your Problem Child Salesperson Work For Your Competitor?

Sep 26, 2014

Many companies hold on to their "problem child" salespeople for far, far too long. And I have heard many a "problem child" salesperson directly threaten or imply, "If I am not ...

Sales Management

The Worst Thing You Can Do to a High Performing Account Manager

Sep 9, 2014

The worst thing you can do to a high-performing account manager is promote them. Have you ever promoted a rock star account manager to outside sales only to see them crash and ...

Sales Culture

Don Draper's Four Rules of Selling

Sep 5, 2014

Mad Men's Don Draper is a "get its, get it". Thanks to Oren Klaff's brilliant book, Pitch Anything, I am now a fan. If you have yet to read Pitch Anything, I HIGHLY recommend you ...

Artisans Are Never Needy

Aug 14, 2014

Neediness equals weakness Are your salespeople needy? Needy salespeople are losers. They need to sell their product / service / experience more than their Customer needs to buy ...

Sales Selection

Hire the Best Salespeople With Three Powerful Interview Questions

Jul 23, 2014

If you are serious about hiring the best salespeople possible, it is essential that you get your sales hiring process optimized to ensure only the best sales candidates are making ...

Sales Selection

Five Critical Strategies To Keep Your Crappy Sales Manager From Hiring Crappy Salespeople

Jul 1, 2014

We help companies hire the best salespeople possible - the kind your competitors wish they had... I am often asked, "What is the one thing companies should do to make sure they ...

Sales Performance

The Real Reason Why Winners Win and Losers Lose

May 20, 2014

They expect to... As a student of sales performance over the last 20 years, I have come to realize that some salespeople are predisposed to approach winning / losing a sale in a ...

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