Top Producers Live Out a French Idiom in Their Daily Sales Lives
Avoir le couteau entre les dents. I don’t speak French, but I love this phrase. It’s an idiom that translated to English means: “To have the knife between your teeth.” The origin of this French-Canadian saying is not quite known, but it may trace its roots back to...
Using Stories to Attract Prospects and Seal Deals
If you ask any historian to name the greatest leaders in western civilization, there’s a good chance the 16th president of the United States will make the list. He willed his country to victory in the gut-wrenching Civil War, issued the Emancipation Proclamation and...
How to Beat a Sales Slump
When I hear the word, “slump,” I think of two things: baseball and sales. Here in July, we’re right in the middle of baseball season, and some hitters are finding themselves in a slump. Every time they step up to the plate, they strike out, fly out to left or ground...
What to Do When a Gatekeeper Blocks Your Path
By Jeff Beals During question-and-answer periods, the same issue keeps coming up in my sales workshops: how to deal with gatekeepers. These people are the receptionists and administrative assistants who stand between you and the decision maker you seek. I’ve...
What to Do When Your Prospective Client Goes Dark
By Jeff Beals It happens to all of us – a prospective client, one you’re sure is going to end up purchasing from you, suddenly goes inexplicably dark. Prospects have been going dark since the sales profession’s very beginning. It’s a common problem, but it...
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