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Are your sales conferences pumping or slumping?

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*** Trigger Warning: May contain traces of sarcasm *** We’ve all been there: a sea of people, pulled together from across the country or region, locked in a windowless room with artificial light, seated at round tables with mints and water, patiently waiting for the parade of presenters to finish their ‘Death by PowerPoint’ presentations so we can get to the coffee station during the day and then the bar […]

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Salespeople beware tire kickers, IP thieves & time wasters

By / / Blog, Ethics and Values, Sales Strategy, Sales tips / 5 minutes of reading

Selling is a very time consuming set of activities at the best of times. Now with so much choice and complexity, sales cycles are taking even longer –like 20% longer– especially with multiple stakeholders in larger businesses. So it only makes sense that we want to be sure as salespeople that a real deal is in the offering, that it is properly budgeted for, and we are in good position

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Sales Trend 2 – The case for long-term focus

By / / Blog, Sales leadership, Sales Planning, Sales Strategy, Sales Trends / 5 minutes of reading

Sales Trend 2 of the Barrett 12 Sales Trends for 2018 Report is the case for long-term focus and strategy. It’s no news that most businesses are focused on the short-term, living from quarter to quarter, and that although there’s ongoing argument about whether there’s enough evidence or not to say that long-term businesses perform better, most of the arguments against it (pro short-term) focus only on profits. However, this

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Sales Trend 1 – The Selling Better Manifesto

By / / Blog, Ethics and Values, Sales leadership, Sales Prospecting, Sales Strategy, Sales tips, Sales Trends / 6 minutes of reading

Sales Trend 1 of the Barrett 12 Sales Trends for 2018 Report is our Selling Better Manifesto. It talks about the Selling Better Movement and it explains why we have started it. We have created The Selling Better Movement with the hope it will help people understand that there’s a better way of doing business. A way in which we can all be prosperous. The Selling Better Movement is an

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12 Sales Trends for 2018 – Welcome to the State of Flux

By / / Blog, Ethics and Values, Sales leadership, Sales Prospecting, Sales Strategy, Sales tips, Sales Trends, Selling Skills / 8 minutes of reading

The world, more specifically the human world, is changing and moving at lightning speed, adapting and evolving, and getting more complex by the day, to the point where it is becoming too overwhelming for many. Just when we need to be able to really think about and manage complexity, there is a flight to the simplistic to just cope with the day to day. Simple solutions, easy fixes are called

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I’m really frustrated because we could all achieve magnificent sales results if only…

By / / Blog, Sales leadership, Sales Strategy, Sales tips, Sales Training / 6 minutes of reading

I am, by nature, a realist optimist who looks at what we can do, how we can make things better and so on. But I don’t do things on a whim, my team and I study what is best practice and look to design, build and weave the various ingredients together to create cost effective, human-centred, strategy and process driven transformation frameworks and journeys that deliver magnificent results and highly

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Back to sales basics

By / / Blog, Sales leadership, Sales Strategy, Sales tips, Selling Skills / 4 minutes of reading

I like to keep on top of what is current, what is emerging, and what is still an idea. This is why I make time each week to do research as it helps me navigate my way around the present and into the future. However, I am finding there is so much to read, so much to get my head around, and so much to integrate into my business that

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Sales Trend 11 – Sales to Add Value to Procurement, Not Just Follow the Process

By / / Blog, Sales Planning, Sales Strategy, Sales tips, Sales Trends / 10 minutes of reading

Sales Trend 11 from Barrett’s 12 Sales Trends for 2017 Report is about Procurement. Guest author Ben Shute, CEO of Comprara, shares his insights. It was 1999 when De Vincentis and Rackham (of SPIN Selling fame) wrote ‘Rethinking the Sales Force’, a book describing how the rise and rise of procurement challenged sales professionals about how best to organise business-to-business sales teams. Fast forward to 2016 and there are 15,000

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New metrics

By / / Blog, Sales Strategy, Sales Trends / 4 minutes of reading

When we talk about sales metrics we usually think units, volumes, quota, members signed, calls made. Generally speaking, these metrics would have been put in place in an organisation at the time that the sales team was established, and (maybe) changed from time to time, usually from quota to number of calls or units, and so on. The current state of markets and most industries are quite different from the

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