Questions as Weapons

Too often, as business professionals, we use questions as weapons. We ask questions with an agenda. We’re not looking for answers. We’re not looking to learn.
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What is Hype?

Lately I’ve noticed consumers of information are very “anti-hype.” I believe this has been caused by market fatigue (too many people making similar outlandish promises), but also because people have told them they should be anti-hype.
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Sales Tips: Feel, Felt, Found

What do you do when someone gives you an objection? What do you do when they have some particular objection to your product, or your service, or even the entire appointment? The “feel, felt, found” formula gives you a way to handle that objection.
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How to Target Your Government Sales Activities

So you have decided you want to “get a piece” of the $6 trillion U.S. government agencies are spending each year. Now the more challenging question is: Where should you focus your sales / business-development activities to win some of this business?
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Shooting from the Lip

Customers don’t want a knee jerk reaction. They don’t want the rehearsed response. They want to invest their time with people who are prepared, who are ready to engage in high impact conversations about their businesses.
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32 Ways to Grow a Business

While there are only four primary strategies for growing a business, there are literally dozens of different techniques you can use to implement these four strategies.
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Why Expand Your Business Internationally?

In the first part of a series on taking your small business international, I’d like to discuss why it might make sense to expand your business to a foreign country. Here are three reasons that inspire most businesses to develop a global strategy.
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