Fatal Sales Failures: Recap #1
Recap of week one of Fatal Sales Failures featuring five great sellers on their worst mistakes and how they learned to avoid them.
Recap of week one of Fatal Sales Failures featuring five great sellers on their worst mistakes and how they learned to avoid them.
Occasionally my sales fantasies turn into realities. When it happens, it’s so
easy to be seduced by this low-hanging fruit. Outwardly, I try to appear calm, cool and collected – a true professional. But inside, every inch of my body wants to scream out, “Take me! Take me!”
If your perspective is outbound on the customer, you need to change your viewpoint. See and understand the world from the client’s perspective, internalize what they know, observe, and live everyday and you will have potentially earned the right to express your opinion; or, offer your advice. If you have not earned the right, you are wasting everyone’s time.
Barbara Hauser explains that sales suffer when the company practices a culture of “See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil.”
Chris Conrey explains that it’s a Fatal Sales Failure to be rude to the “front line” people at a prospect company. Don’t let that Executive Washroom go to your head!
Announcing a guest blog series on “Fatal Sales Failures and How to Avoid Them” featuring prominent bloggers, tweeters, sales experts sharing their stories.