Sales Management Articles

Increase Your Sales with Actionable Emails

by Kendra Lee

I hate long emails. They take too long to read and typically include action items I just don't have time for. No doubt you've experienced it, too. Your customers are no different and it's impacting your ability to close sales.

What to Do When You Hit the Invisible Sales Revenue Ceiling

by Jeff Hardesty

When you hit a revenue "ceiling," you have to go into diagnostic mode.

A "Closing Sript" Is A Sales Myth

by Virden Thornton

Selling today is about asking questions that uncover a prospect's problems and buying motives and then simply offering solutions based on your products or services. Then to close, you simply need to...

Sell Feelings Not Facts

by Alan Fairweather

So instead of losing sleep wondering what your USP could be, far better to think about what your ESP (emotional sales point), could be.

The Critical Factor In Consistent Sales Success

by Virden Thornton

I have recognized for years that I could teach and then drill selling skills into a promising sales representative and could help my client to create a climate for self-motivation and yet some representatives with extremely high potential for success

Powerful Routines; Identifying Sales Scenarios and Developing Best Practices for Improvement

by Jeff Hardesty

These Powerful Routines can help you turn around undesired scenarios. Identify, train to and measure them so you can routinely achieve your desired results!

Sales Training and The Pencil Technique

by BMA Editorial Team

Learning top sales training is incredibly important in the sales world, just take the classic 'sell me this pencil' example. Have you ever gone to a job interview and been asked to sell the interviewer a pencil?

The Core Skills You Need To Learn Hypnosis

by Ismael Tabije

Conversational hypnosis is the practice of inducing hypnotic trances through the focused skills learned in language, speech and suggestion. The primary objective is to induce a trance in order to accomplish a motivated outcome or reach a specific purpose;

Modern Sales Professionals Build Professional Intimacy

by BMA Editorial Team

Effective selling requires professional intimacy. Modern sales professionals learn that customer centric pacing must be practiced, once you have mastered it, selling is easy and fun! Get into step with your customers, raise their mood, and be positive, caring and friendly.

Create a ‘No Excuses' Sales Environment

by Tony Cole

The foundation for creating a clearly defined sales environment begins with the leadership - how they set sales standards and then demonstrate, communicate and inspect accountability to those standards. What sales standards do you set and communicate?

Top 7 Reasons Sales Managers Fail

by Colleen Stanley

Have you been scratching your head wondering why your sales team is not hitting revenue goals and aren't going to succumb to blaming the economy? Read on to determine if you are a product of these 7 reasons sales managers fail.

Dealing with Bluff in Negotiations

by Piotr Jednaszewski

Can we use bluff? Personally I would say “not” as it always lowers our credibility and reliability. The more we are credible in our course of action the sounder our negotiation techniques are.

Close More Sales: 3 Ways to Get In, Get Started and Make More Money Now--No Matter the Economy

by Joanne Black

Build lifetime customer relationships with clients who want to buy from you over and over again even in a lagging economy...

The Top Ten Best Practices in Channel Partner Education

by Brian Berlin

What does it take to build a channel partner training program that accomplishes the two critical goals of provisioning resellers with the tools to sell and the vendors with evidence that the training has had an impact in the marketplace?

5 Ways to Gauge Your Sales Managers' Coaching

by Steven Rosen

That executive sees the role of the sales manager as developing his or her people to the best of their potential. So how exactly do you know if your managers are effective coaches?