Ignoring or putting off succession planning for your business because you think there will be time for it later is a great mistake. According to a study by the American Management Association, only 34% of organizations have actually committed themselves to business succession planning. While it can be a bit daunting, even for someone at [...]

Practically every sale made to a new buyer may be properly classified as easy, difficult, or impossible. You’ll readily agree to that. But will you agree to this? Sales are not easy, difficult, or impossible according to the character or mood of the person you’re talking to. What you say or do during the first [...]

Whenever a new commodity appears, we ridicule it, and oppose it, and refuse to buy it at any price. Then the salesperson trains his energies on us. We fight for a while, and finally we surrender. But we give no credit, or glory, to the salesperson. We walk up to the counter and buy the [...]

The secret of being successful in selling is the ability to transmit your energy and your enthusiasm about your product or service. If you fail to do that, you will not sell. In Selling is Better than Sex, I will take you through the essentials of successful selling with a humorous twist; illustrating that business [...]

In your approach you have won the prospect’s interest. You have put them in the mental position where they are ready to purchase if you prove up your claims. And you can prove up these claims because you made them, knowing in advance that they were merely a preface to showing your proposition. What is [...]

If you want to be a successful sales person and to close the deal, very important part is to be in front of your customers at the exact time when they are on the market for goods or services. You can find companies they are on the market now, or you can put them in [...]

Recently I visited with Mike, one of my previous customers, who gave me an interesting list of 10 rules for employees. Every new employee who enters his plant has the first step to a partnership in the shape of these ten rules handed them on a printed card: Rule I Don’t lie. It wastes my [...]