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    Making a Career of Sales

    Making a Career of Sales

    As many readers of this blog will surely agree, there is no doubt that sales can be an excellent and satisfying career, and I thought you might appreciate my recent article on the subject for the International Journal of Sales Transformation.

    Sales Forecasting Essentials - get your definitions right

    There’s nothing more frustrating for a sales leader, a CEO or a Board of Directors than a continued inability to come up ...

    Yes, confidence matters when selling - but not where you might think

    Confidence. It's a quality most of us associate with successful salespeople. A confident presence, a persuasive tone, a ...

    Do your prospects need painkillers, vaccines, or vitamins?

    You might hope that your prospects need to buy your so-called “solutions”. But what they really want to do is to fix an ...

    Understanding your customer's buying decision journey

    It’s falsely comforting to think of selling as a process in which one step follows logically after another - but this ...

    Why Facts Matter When Forecasting

    This article was first published in the February 2025 edition of Top Sales Magazine (link below). It’s hard to avoid the ...

    What’s more important: our Sales Process, or our Customer’s Buying Journey?

    This article was originally published in the January 2025 edition of Top Sales Magazine (link below). Traditional wisdom ...

    The Future of Sales Playbooks

    This article originally appeared in Top Sales Magazine (link below). Sales playbooks have come a long way since their early ...

    Sales Managers and Leaders: are you 100% happy with the hires you have made in the past 12 months?

    Finding and recruiting good people into any position is hard. Hiring consistently great salespeople is particularly ...

    Why sales-specific assessments are critical to recruitment and development

    This article was first published in the October 2024 edition of Top Sales Magazine: Recruiting the right new salesperson - ...