Tagged With "B2B"

I was just thinking about this yesterday and this morning. If you have a day packed full of appointments, it's difficult to "work" between sales calls because you don't have enough time between each appointment to dive into anything except responding to a couple of quick emails. But with social media, you can use that in-between time to drive new business conversations and maintain productivity. Great reminder that we can always do something to Always Be Prospecting.

Social and how a sales rep uses it can greatly enhance prospecting. Think of the social phone! The interenet is never closed when it comes to prospecting.

Over the years, having the ability to post, comment, share and like content day or night is awesome.

Yes, I created a new word. “Relationship-Less” As time moves along so must our thinking. I first published this article in March of 2019, With the current circumstances we are all living through I wanted to re-publish. The world's businesses and the world's people will advance in their digitization by at least five years. I fear many B2B sellers will confuse their temporary great relationships; relationships created for and in a different time. The changes caused by this pandemic regarding...

There is a huge tug-of-war and discussions flying around between sales experts citing cold calling is dying or better yet dead.   For decades, cold calling has been the new business catalyst for salespeople all around the world. Heck, tenured...

Throughout my career as a copier sales rep, I was always frustrated by the perspective that copier sales reps were not viewed upon positively like other professionals — accountants, engineers, financial planners, marketers – and instead they were viewed as lone wolves, undisciplined rebels, spoiled brats, used car sales reps, who functioned independently of the rest of the organization. I believe most of my own success inside the office equipment world was deeply rooted inside one word…...

Successful sales reps pay attention to their sales funnel as social integration can happen 365 days a year, 7 days a week, 24 hours per day. Sales reps must start shifting their mindset when it comes to prospecting in a digital business world. I set the business table with How Social Turns Sales Reps Downtime Into Prospecting Time . We must recognize as sales professional's social media is not our primary prospecting mechanism but simply augments prospecting, it changes our approach as this...

In my last post, Sales Reps... Why writing content should be part of your sales strategy , I speak to successful sales reps recognize and learn how to not only engage the new digital buyer but to align their online and offline resources to the buyer journey. Successful sales reps realize the one critical part of addressing the new buyer’s journey is not merely creating digital tactics, but focusing on how they engage prospects and even clients once they engage digitally. Successful sales...

"Listening is the new prospecting" John Jantsch Face to face interactions are typically viewed as the single most valuable activity by any sales professional. However, opening the door and gaining a seat at the business table is tough. "How does a sales rep in a highly connected, digital business world capture the attention of an executive buyer?" The primary differentiator of today's successful sales reps is their ability to prospect. Successful sales reps open up new relationships with...

Nice, and a few tips about fishing. You can't catch fish with out having your line in the water. Supplying content is something that you need to do on a daily basis (yes, even Saturday and Sunday). There's an old saying with fishing, "you don't leave fish to find fish". Thus, stay with the sites that provide you the best audience for your content.

Thanks Art. In order to have success fishing the right bait must be used. All too often sales rep post content with very little thought and wonder why there is no engagement. The correct bait will yields the bites needed to start conversations.

I had no intention of writing a blog tonight. Today was more like a exercise in futility. I've got $110K on the my opportunity board with about $90K in committed verbals in the last week. Yet I haven't been able to turn the corner on any of them yet. Over the past two days I've let the ball travel with a few, placed a few calls and emails with nudges to get docs. It's more like what does it take to get these documents when I want them? That's the key, in most cases you never get them when...

Last week, I heard someone suggest that because HP is supposedly approaching 10 million print subscriptions, this validates that the SMB marketplace is ready to explode in the acceptance of managed print services. To this nonsense, I say, Delusional Prognosis. Let’s explore the reality. HP’s subscriptions are a direct to consumer business model. A model that relies on a pull-economy process. A process to sell sub $200.00 print devices and then sell a monthly subscription ink payment plan...