Like a lot of American kids in the early 1980s – Michael started selling subscriptions to a local newspaper. While selling he discovered: #1 Pick up your prospects’ tone: If you sounded like the people you were trying to sell a subscription to, they were much more likely to buy from you. He would talk…
Every sales leader loves looking for that ‘fire in the belly salespersons’ (FIBS). Unfortunately, FIBS is often a lazy substitute for not building a great product that is differentiated well, marketed well but to be magically sold so well that it rakes in all the revenues in spite of the product-market mismatch or past ku-karma.…
In the early days, Mr. Gopinath was a successful agriculturist. And he decided to move into micro-irrigation turnkey consulting. This is what he had to say: “For 2 years, I loaded all the agri-equipment that I set out to market in the car boot and hit the road. While on these forays, I combined the…
Here’s our 9-point checklist: #1 Welfare of team, customers & partners #2 Prioritising & deprioritising all initiatives & budgets in consultation with CEO, CFO, & CMO #3 Sales pipeline – what can we do to save/enrich the pipeline in today’s environment? #4 Customer success in the real sense of the word – ensuring current customers…
In today’s scenario, a Sales leader should possess a strong heart, mind and muscles to excel at their job. You need to travel a path that hasn’t been traversed. The ablity of the company to survive depends on how fast you bring in the revenues. Most markets are getting commoditised and others needs a crazy…