The Insightful Seller

A Story of Transformation: From Struggling Sales to Rapid Growth

In the fast-paced software industry, an emerging company found itself at a crossroads. While the company was growing after being acquired by a Private Equity (PE) firm, they were hampered by faltering sales execution. Despite recognizing the market fit for their...

Stop Chasing Bottlenecks With Controlled Sales Growth

I've had the opportunity to serve on the senior leadership team of numerous organizations to navigate the complex waters of growth and expansion. This is where I gained invaluable lessons on how to achieve both Sales and EBITDA growth success. The common denominator...

A Tale of Transformation: How Strategic Hiring Revitalized a Sales Team

A business owner was increasingly frustrated with his sales team's passive approach to sales. The team had become "order takers," and in the owner’s opinion they weren't putting in the effort to create and close new opportunities. After cycling through yet another...

How to Win More Deals by Closing Sales Skill Gaps

Finding salespeople with the right mindset and expertise is challenging. Clients often ask me where they can find “the right salespeople” to help them win more deals. The scalable, sustainable answer is… we need to develop them. While you should always be on the...

Enable Expected Sales Results With Our Revenue Planning Tool

If you are finding yourself questioning the strength of your sales pipeline and wondering why projections seldom line up with the company revenue goals you established, it may be time to revisit how you design your sales targets. A common disconnect I encounter in...

Navigating Growing Pains: A Family Business Success Story

Two siblings had just finished their first quarter as the new owners of the business their grandfather had established from grass roots and their father invested decades of his life developing. While the plan had always been for the adult children to take ownership...

How to Maximize Your Next Sales Investment

Are you striving to boost your sales and improve your bottom line, but feel overwhelmed by the vast number of options? You are not alone. In a world filled with countless sales strategies, platforms, and tools, the challenge of choosing the right investment for your...

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How a Sales System Supports Scalability

You’ve probably heard of Lean and Six Sigma process improvement methodologies that can shape your entire business to eliminate the waste of resources and product defects. Once an organization commits to this level of optimization, it’s just a matter of time before...

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How to Set-up Your Next Sales Leader for Success

Any business executive who has hired the wrong sales leader knows how detrimental it is to your business. The process of finding or replacing a sales leader can be a perilous journey fraught with multiple risks to the organization. Those about to embark on hiring...

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Assign Selling Quotas that Drive Growth

Whether your company has a single salesperson or a full sales team, translating your company-level Sales Goal into smart, attainable sales quotas notably increases your ability to achieve your goal. It also creates a path to scale your sales team as additional sales...

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How to Source Effective Salespeople

It's time to bring on another salesperson for your company and you can’t afford to ramp them up only to see them leave. You recognize even a qualified sales hire will need ample ramp-up time but what you want to avoid is a misfire that does not reveal itself for 6-12...

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Sales Training Is Only Part of the Answer

As a leader, you may be struggling to determine the best approach to address competency gaps in your sales team and how best to invest in their development. You know that training is important for developing the skills of your salespeople and you owe it to them to...

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How to prepare for the “difficult conversations”