Sales Tips for Sales Managers: Hiring Sales Representatives in a Down Economy

As the economy trends downward we are seeing multiple companies shrink their sales force and cut the fat in order to save costs. Most companies right now are looking to eliminate their lowest performing sales representatives and even their sales managers to ensure a higher return on investment on their sales team.  This scenario leads [...]

Telesales Techniques You Must Learn

Nowadays, almost every business employs telesales personnel in order to boost their sales and do a world of good to their business. From newspapers to Advertising Agencies to Manufacturing Houses and even Charitable Institutions every one is employing telesales techniques for sales.
In fact, there are numerous companies around the world that exist [...]

How to be more visible and develop a personal brand on your sales team! Get promoted!

It’s common for me to get questions from folks in higher-level sales positions or semi-supervisory positions (maybe National Accounts Managers, etc.), maybe interviewing for Regional Accounts Manager positions, who want to know how to differentiate themselves so that they will be the ones who get tapped for promotions. There’s a lot of advice out there [...]

How To Become An Effective Sales Manager

A customer’s opinion about an organization is largely based on the people that he deals with. For the organization, this is the ultimate salesperson. It is the salesperson’s job to build and enhance a customer’s opinion of the company. Therefore, the success or the failure of any organization rests largely on the effectiveness of the [...]

The Truth About Sales Training Programs

Spend half an hour researching online for the kind of sales training programs that are a big waste of money and time, and you’ll turn up some pretty sobering results. Corporations spend millions of dollars on motivational sales training seminars for their entire sales force only to discover that they do nothing to change behavior, [...]

Party Plan Sales Selling Tips: How To Double Home Parties Ratios For More Direct Sales Profits

Dear Home Party Consultant, Direct Sales Rep., & Direct Selling Business Owner,
In my last article, An Open Letter To : Direct Sales Consultant, Direct Selling Business Owners On How To Triple Home Party Sales we laid the foundation for improving direct selling ratios. Today we are going to focus our minds of increasing and improving [...]