Sales Detox: What Do You Need to Stop Doing?

By Jeff Beals A year ago my wife was on a mission to purge our house of clutter. She read the book, “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing,” by Marie Kondo.  She took it to heart and tore into the basement, closets and...

The Only Sales Knowledge You’ll Ever Need

By Jeff Beals In his new book on selling, Anthony Iannarino asks readers to finish this sentence: “I sell ___.” He then writes, “If you answered anything other than ‘outcomes,’ you are wrong. If you answered with your product, service or solution, your answer is so...

How to Survive in a Post-Cold-Calling World

By Jeff Beals In 2007, it took an average of 3.68 cold-call attempts to reach a prospect. Today it takes eight attempts.  That’s according to TeleNet and Ovation Sales Group.  Some studies have indicated it requires 10 to 12 attempts to reach an executive-level...

Do Storytellers Really Close More Deals?

By Jeff Beals As a person who has long believed in the power of storytelling, a recent Wall Street Journal headline caught my attention: “Why Good Storytellers Are Happier in Life and in Love.” In the article, writer Elizabeth Bernstein writes that since the dawn of...

How Good Sales Professionals Become Great Ones

By Jeff Beals The legendary John D. Rockefeller famously said, “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” The struggle to move from good to great has captured the imagination of ambitious people for centuries if not millennia. And it’s not just...