Two weeks into the New Year, and are you already stressed about picking up the phone and making prospecting calls? I learned a secret years ago that enabled me to overcome my fear of making calls, and that allowed me to make hundreds of cold calls stress-free. In fact, after I adopted this approach, I […]
Welcome back to your home office; how do you feel? Overwhelmed? Under pressure already? If so, then you’re not alone. Most company’s sales teams are under immediate pressure to begin accomplishing their new goals and sales targets for 2021. As you speak with your clients and prospects this week, it’s helpful to realize that they […]
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Have you read “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens lately? Seen the movie? I once had a chilling reminder of the bad “Ghost of Christmas Future,” that I narrowly avoided all those years ago. This is a cautionary tale, and I highly recommend you take a moment to read it: One bright Monday morning, I […]
In case you missed this, I received the following email last week: Dear Mike: The people have spoken and your article, “3 Keys to Dealing with Difficult Prospects,” has won 2nd place in our 2020 Sales Pro Central MVP Awards Social Selling category!” I thought I’d repost it for you: 3 Keys to Dealing with […]
If you prospect by phone for a living, then you’re no stranger to rejection. If you don’t learn to feed on it, to use it as fuel to motivate you to make more calls, then it can be rough going. It’s no wonder that the most liked blog post I’ve put out over the last […]
It’s been a challenging year with Covid, and as cases skyrocket it seems as if it could be a rough winter… With the holidays and the end of the year just around the corner, I think it’s time to give your attitude a boost. I want to share with you one of my all-time favorite […]
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(Image courtesy of All Ear Plugs https://www.allearplugs.com/) Question for you: How often do you take notes while you’re on Mute and your prospect is revealing their buying motives? What? You don’t take notes? How about using your Mute button? Are you actively doing that? (If not, start using it today: search my blog to read […]
Nobody likes rejection, and fear of being rejected, of being unsuccessful, is what causes sales reps to avoid picking up the phone; it causes them to send emails instead of having a conversation with prospects. The solution to this is to reframe rejection. And here’s how—answer this question: how many calls do you need to […]
