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Everything’s a story in business. Customers understand complexity from a story. They rationalize their buying from a story, which means sellers sell stories. Sales reps pitch gel electrophoresis [...]

After another year we’re better, smarter, and more successful. That’s what we strive for anyway. So, to keep commissions rising and promotions coming, these articles can help raise [...]

Your attention span is shorter than a goldfish’s, that’d be about eight seconds compared to Goldie’s nine. And Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, said “Time in an attention [...]

“I have a dream” — “To be, or not to be” — “Four score and seven years ago…“ Do you recognize these from the few words shown? They’re memorable [...]

It’s a constant selling refrain that to succeed in sales, reps must connect as high up in customers’ organizations as possible, ideally at the c-suite level. And that’s not easy [...]

COVID-19 and variants are still here and worse than most expected. It’s obvious the pandemic is an ongoing catastrophe that has thrown future predictions out the window. US deaths will soon [...]

Tomorrow is officially back on the calendar. Businesses will dig out from sheltering in place. They’ll be coming from a feast of selling emergency services to essential businesses in the [...]

Incumbent contractors in the B2B service world know winning the work is just the beginning: It’s the initial, necessary milestone in the lifetime of the contract and customer relationship. [...]

A best practice in B2B sales is to hold postmortems; opportunities to find out what worked, what didn’t, and what could be better next time. And what sales team doesn’t want to get [...]