If you’re an AE, I recommend appointing yourself a small business owner.
Just like most small business owners you probably feel like you have no time. You may also feel unsupported by your company and that you need to do everything yourself.
Just like small business owners there are things you can do to make this situation a lot better. By doing so you will (a) sell more, (b) get a bigger commission check, and (c) be less stressed. Not a bad combo.
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This is one I’ve seen several times over my (getting long) career. Someone is one of the top performers in a sales team and they still get sacked. How is this possible?
The trick is be super customer-focused and take the opposite approach when dealing with people in your own company.
The person that achieves this trick often says “I’m too busy selling to deal with the political nonsense in my company.” [Read more…]
For those that have parachuted into this blog from Google, this is part of a series of posts about how to save your sales job. This first batch of ten posts is about preparing to go to market when you get that new sales gig or greenfield opportunity.
One of the things it’s well worth knowing (and the one your boss will likely get fixated on) is the products your company sells. [Read more…]
Build a fortress around your prospecting time.
If you want to be a top sales person, this may be the single most important piece of advice I can give you.
In my last post I was talking about goals. You need goals to know where you want to go. You need goals for this week to know where you want to be at the end of this month. You need monthly goals to know where you want to be at the end of the year. And yearly goals to have a life you are happy with.
Blocking out time on your calendar is where the rubber hits the road. [Read more…]
What’s the point?
The point is a good thing to know before you set out on an epic journey. And let’s face it most sales jobs are epic journeys. They’re not easy and they go on for a long time. There’s a ton of sweat and some tears involved in most of them. Epic!
I’m going to be writing approximately ten posts next on how to prepare for such an epic journey. [Read more…]
I’m going to be writing about survival. Sales survival.
How to do you keep your job if you’re in a new sales position or how do you keep afloat if you’ve been given one of those “greenfield” opportunities (aka you have no relationships in the market)?
If you’re selling in the tech sector you may well have heard of (or even be selling) “Agile development”. Agile is a smart way of saying “don’t overrate how smart you are”. [Read more…]