Author: Mike Brooks

The Benefits of a SELLING Sales Manager Leading Your Team

The problem with many sales managers is that they aren’t expected to get on the phone and sell.  And the problem with that is how can they teach and coach something they aren’t doing themselves (or worse, that they can’t…

How Serious ARE You About YOUR Success?

Just what actions ARE you taking right now to accomplish your goal? Do you have a sales coach or have you joined a mastermind group to support you and give you the tools you need to succeed?  Are you committed…

How to Exercise Your Way to Selling More!

Instead of getting older and losing strength, stamina and flexibility, you can actually reverse this and become "functionally younger" next year than you are right now.  You can actually change the decline curve that we all assume is true about…

Smart Use of Social Media in Selling

Social media has changed our lives in many ways, and it's changed the way we make buying decisions as well.  If you're like most people today, you probably search several sites, read reviews, look for deals and coupons and then…

3 Proven Secrets of Top Producers for Setting Qualified Appointments

Follow these three proven secrets of top producers and your appointment rate will increase as well as your qualified appointment ratio!  This article is too short to script all these things out for you, but don't worry I'm not going…

Do You Know the Secret to Being Happy and Successful?

If you find that you are struggling to achieve a certain result - whether it's earn more money, get in better shape, improve a relationship, etc., then before you wait to be successful at it, why not start with the…

The Best Way to Handle An Email Brush Off

How do you currently handle the brush off, "Just email me - or send - me your information"? Believe it or not, about 80% of sales teams I speak with actually shoot off an email, schedule a follow up call,…

Generate Positive Results by Using This Simple Tool for Success

Hey, sales - and life - isn't always going to go your way. But when you can stop and appreciate how incredibly fortunate and blessed you already are, and get restored to what your true purpose is, you'll find that…

Three Rules to Effective Up Sells

The up sell is one of the easiest and most important parts of your presentation to script out. So many sales reps (like 80% of them), ad lib the up sell (whenever they think about it at all), and because…

Three Tips For Successful Sales Management

Sales management is actually real easy and straight forward if you break it down to its three most important elements. If you concentrate on these three keys and actually make it a priority to implement them, your job will get…

Four Techniques to Climb Out of That Sales Slump!

What you can't fall victim to is negative thinking. That only leads to deflated attitudes, less activity, and poor sales skills. It tends to feed itself and you start looking for reasons to fail, and you often find them!  You…

What’s the Most Important Thing a Sales Manager Can Do to Drive Business?

If you want to improve the sales performance of your sales team, then you need to stay focused on and monitor what is driving those results - what your reps are saying and doing during their qualifying and closing presentations.…