Recently, we were hired to help a company post-webinar. They wanted us to create follow-up material, from a live webinar that they attended, that would both engage their employees and leverage the training they had just received. An hour long webinar is packed full of information, and the company’s managers needed to understand how to take everything their employees learned and reinforce it in..

Lead generation is important if you are going to be a successful salesperson. You can’t sell if you don’t have any potential customers. So, you set up a website, you write a blog and you become a social media expert, but how do you track and keep in contact with all those leads? Part of being a great salesperson is turning potential customers into regular clients, and thanks to new technology,..

When it comes to sales, the person with the best pitch, the most product knowledge and the highest level of confidence will usually be the one that makes the close. Becoming a great salesperson takes time, and it requires constant learning and practicing. Salespeople need to pick up different tips, tools and techniques that they can apply to their day-to-day work, and these can often be found in..

Companies need a strategy if they are going to see results from their sales people. Managers cannot just tell reps to make some calls and close some deals. They need to make sure that they employees are prepared to do the best job that they can. Download our free audio pointcast to find out how to enhance performance using strategy.

Plane trips. Hotel rooms. Expensive training sessions. All of these are a thing of the past with a new type of technology: webinars. Webinars are here to replace the original form of speaking presentations, and they are here to stay. These types of speaking engagements allow people to connect via the Internet as opposed to face-to-face. Participants all log in around the same time, and the..

Let’s face it- we live in a world that is becoming more and more technology based. Customers are turning to the World Wide Web when they need a new product or service, and companies are relying on websites, blogs and online articles to boost sales. Inside sales people need to know where traffic is coming from in order to efficiently gather leads and prospects. There are three important ways that..

      Salespeople know that the best way to reach potential customers is through their current ones. It is important to work well with your clients and to build up trust because essentially you want them to recommend your product or service to their friends and family. Prospecting by obtaining references from clients is a great way to conduct business, and the process has slowly begun moving to the..

     When it comes to making sales, you need more than luck. While it doesn’t hurt to have it, you need to have product knowledge and the ability to sell. Salespeople need to have great communication skills and be memorable. There are three techniques that a great salesperson uses to get in front of customers and make sales.

Recently, I went shopping to buy a new pair of jeans. Upon entering the first store, I noticed three workers standing off to the side talking and laughing…none of them acknowledged me as I walked in. I proceeded to pick out a few pairs and went over to the fitting room, where I waited, and waited, and waited for someone to unlock the door for me, and while I was waiting on the staff, two workers..