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Author Archives: Guest Blogger
Fatal Sales Failures: Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter
If your perspective is outbound on the customer, you need to change your viewpoint. See and understand the world from the client’s perspective, internalize what they know, observe, and live everyday and you will have potentially earned the right to express your opinion; or, offer your advice. If you have not earned the right, you are wasting everyone’s time. Continue reading
Fatal Sales Failures: Too Good to Be True
Merlin U Ward discusses why it’s risky to make a pitch that sounds “too good to be true.” Continue reading
Fatal Sales Failure: Forget the Front Lines
Chris Conrey explains that it’s a Fatal Sales Failure to be rude to the “front line” people at a prospect company. Don’t let that Executive Washroom go to your head! Continue reading
Posted in Fatal Sales Failures, Sales Tips, Women in Business
Tagged Chris Conrey. Fatal Sales Failures, communication, customers, sales, selling
Seven Bad-Boss Behaviors to Avoid
Strong workplace relationships among leaders and their employees are vital to a healthy organization. Gallup found that no single factor more clearly predicts the productivity of an employee than his relationship with his direct supervisor. The ability to build solid workplace relationships and effectively communicate in a positive manner is the core of good management. Continue reading
What can marketing do for sales?
Video blog about how to save time in the sales process by educating your customers through marketing tactics. Continue reading
Lean, Mean, Sales Machine – Three steps to a more efficient sales process
Perhaps you know that one of The Whale Hunters key principles is that sales is 90% process and 10% magic, not the other way around. It is true. To help turn that concept into a real tool you can use, here are three steps to a more efficient sales process. Continue reading
Why I Became a Whale Hunter by Dave Cooke
Nothing is more critical to the sustainable success of a business than its abilities to galvanize the organizational team around their accountabilities for growth. While so many businesses place a high emphasis and dependence upon the functional responsibility of the sales teams for their growth, sustainable businesses recognize that increases in revenues are best accomplished through the retention of existing clients and the efficiency with which their team attracts and converts new clients. Sustainable revenue growth is about focusing on developing and maintaining great relationships that add value to the firm and to the client. That is not a sales function—it is an organizational accountability. Continue reading
Expert Series Call: The Key to Fast Growth is ‘Discoverability’
Each month we do our Expert Series call focused on growth and sales for small and medium sized businesses. This month, on July 20th at 12pm Eastern, we’re doing our free call with Compendium CEO, Chris Baggott . Continue reading