No sales professional comes to the job knowing everything they need to know to succeed. Everyone needs someone to show them the ropes and help them improve their performance. That is why you need to make coaching a sales team…
Post-COVID Media Sales, Are Customer Needs Assessments Dead?
As we navigate the changes in our media sales world right now, I think it’s important to focus on the Post-COVID Customer Needs Assessment. We’re living in a world where people are limited in cash, limited on funds and certainly…
4 Lessons About B2B Sales Learned from Training New Sales Reps
Over the years, I have worked with a lot of different B2B sales reps, many of them might be starting out in this line of work for the first time. During the COVID-19 crisis, a lot of retail sales people…
7 Lessons For Building Your Business From 7 Successful Entrepreneurs
Gina DeVee Author of The Audacity To Be Queen Claire Morgan – Authentic Brand Photography What is the secret to your success? This is a question I’ve been asked often. Every time I hear these words, it makes me curious.…
Taking Both Forks in the Road: Stop Limiting Your Decision Making
We often use “road” metaphors for the activities of our business and our life — “the path to the sale,” “the road not taken,” “living on easy street,” and so on — because it seems like an accurate description. We…
How One Entrepreneur Tripled Her Monthly Income Amidst The COVID-19 Crisis
If you’ve struggled to remember that anything is possible—even in the worst of circumstances—this entrepreneur might change your mind. Elizabeth Rider currently runs a multi-six figure business as a leading expert in nutrition and whole living. But she started her…
Training is lonely
Stock photo/ Unsplash Being a sales trainer is a lonely job and it is a slowly becoming a dying profession. Over the last 35 years, I have had the joy to be able to help people become better trained with…
This Entrepreneur Is Making Easy Online Revenue Through Marketing and E-commerce
Francesco Rivera had the passion and dedication to study the functioning of the Web and online marketing from a very young age Francesco Rivera Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Leaving the comfort zone and initiating the challenges…
The Best Open-Ended Questions to Ask On Sales Calls
If there’s one mistake Colleen Stanley has seen salespeople make over and over again in her 20-year career as a sales trainer, it’s a failure to ask the simple questions. A well-timed follow-up like, “Can you give me a recent…
How to Make Money in a Crisis
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. In times like these, full of unknowns, it can be scary for entrepreneurs and freelancers who’ve lost business opportunities , as well as workers who’ve lost their jobs or had their hours…