Author: Nancy Bleeke

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Increase Your Productivity in 60 Seconds or Less

Want To Be More Successful in 60 seconds? Maximize your sales success potential by making your minutes matter. A minute isn’t a lot of time…just 60 seconds. What you do with those minutes can make a difference in your day, week,…

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4 Reasons Weekly Sales Team Meetings Matter

Sales Leaders Must Make Time for Sales Team Meetings Regular weekly sales team meetings are one of the keys to spending more time with your team and keeping their skills and attitudes sharp. Busy sales managers are on a merry-go-round…

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The Best Strategy: Keep Your Sales Skills Fresh

One of the most impactful ways you can increase your wins and connections is to keep your sales skills and practices fresh. Adapting your approach is the key to outgunning the competition. I don’t know about you, but I can…

Do You Have a Humbling Sales Experience?

It’s when we humble ourselves and admit we could do better and continue to push our activities, efforts, and risk for being humbled that we find the greatness we can really achieve. I cringed as I watched the ‘guys’ return…

What Is Your Selling Profile?

Today’s sellers need to be agile and actively looking for problems and opportunities they can help their buyers address or capture. Have you ever thought about the type of sales role you are in? Or managers, the type of selling…

How To Handle Objections By Guiding A Sales Conversation

For both parties in this exchange, there is a lot at risk at this moment. This is why a collaborative selling approach continues to be important...This approach ensures that your mind is engaged, before your mouth. It’s often the “sticky”…

Effective Communication: Words Best Left Unsaid

Words are mighty and the key to our success in communication, leading, and coaching our team. Even our seemingly little words can have a huge impact. Ever say something you wish you could “take back?” I sure have! Unfortunately though,…

Make the Sales Process About the Buyer

I want to believe that sales professionalism has evolved. I want to believe that at this time, everyone “gets” that the buyer matters most in the sales conversations. Yet, that isn’t what I’ve experienced. I’ve been in the buyer’s seat…

3 Tips for being a Better Sales Coach

How then do we make coaching conversations productive, efficient, and less stressful for the coach and coachee? With a bit of forward thinking and action and these 3 sales coaching hacks: We all know we are supposed to coach our associates, don't…

What Do You Do For Your Clients?

Too often we get so focused on what we produce or deliver, that everyone in the company loses sight of the real value of the product or service. Aligning everyone in the company to answer one question can do more for your bottom line…

By the Way, What DO We Sell?

The one powerful question everyone in your company needs to answer correctly is: What do we do FOR our clients? Aligning everyone in the company to answer one question can do more for your bottom line than the new software you…

How to Become a Provocative and Collaborative Sales Professional

By working through the sales process and information with your buyer, you keep yourself from being a pesky poker and position yourself as a trusted and collaborative resource they will buy from again and again. Challenging and Provocative Selling: Do…