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Nick Bladock

 

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Selling by Walking Away

A Law is something that is always true. No exceptions. Do you remember Newton’s Laws of Physics? As a salesperson it is vital that you do or you will be missing out on plenty of sales

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The Five Most Common Mistakes Salespeople Make and How to Avoid Them

Simple sales mistakes, errors could be costing you a fair number of sales. It is easy to overlook these five things that many in sales have never thought about…

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The Top Five Sales’ Challenges for 2016

If you search for the top sales’ challenges then you’ll get a list as long as your arm. Here are the top five. You ignore these at your peril.

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Turning Sales Targets into Activity

Most salespeople are set sales targets. Targets are typically end results and often a simple focus on the end goal is not enough to succeed. How do you know exactly what to do to hit the target?

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Shake, Rattle, and Roll

Are most people in your industry “doing sales” in the same way as you? Then you are predictable to your prospect and they are blind to you. How could you disrupt the expectations of your prospects?

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SWOT-ting Up on Your Sales

How about doing a bit of “swot-ting” up. Applying this well-known formula – strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and strengths – to you; the goal for which is to help you to improve.

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How Not to Run Your Sales Team: A Contrarian Approach

Few sales teams function as a team. Instead, their members are pitted against one another. The enemy is not outside, but within, cooperation stops and could be described as putting a can of Coke in every six-pack of Peps

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Getting Prospects to Sell Themselves

When a pitch to a prospect starts to go wrong, most sales people over-react. They point out the features and benefits again or make even more concessions. They do the opposite of what they should do and things only get w

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Let us make a deal

It’s been suggested that you have about seven seconds to make a good first impression in an interview or meeting. The “elevator speech” is intended to help.

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A blindfolded chimp could be a highly paid investment banker

A suggestion that decisions based solely on logic and experience are not necessarily those that produce the star performers in any field including sales

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