By: Ralph Burns | 2010-12-23 | Management Motivating your sales team is just one aspect of the job of a sales manager, but it is all encompassing in that it also includes all of the other things that you do as a sales manager. Sales managers are not only coaching and leading, but there should also be an undercurrent of motivation in everything and anything that you do. And be acutely aware that every interaction that you have and ever read more
By: Ralph Burns | 2010-10-06 | Management It's not a secret, but goal setting, and goal setting specifically used in the right way as a sales manager is the absolute secret sauce to you getting the best from your sales people to achieve ultimate sales success to you getting the best from your sales people. read more
By: Ralph Burns | 2010-12-23 | Management The “secret sauce” to sales management success is getting your sales reps to set their own goals for themselves. read more
By: Ralph Burns | 2010-09-27 | Management On this episode of Sales Management mastery we go into part 2 of our series on the Seven Forces of Sales Motivation. We continue with forces 5 through 7 and further develop our understanding with our psychology of motivating people As a quick review, we went through the first 4 of the 7 forces of sales motivation on last week's episode. read more
By: Mike Brooks | 2010-03-31 | Management Motivation seems to be one of the toughest areas to get a handle on. Many managers tell me that some of their reps are already motivated and don't need their help in that area (usually the Top 20%), but that the majority seem to need constant motivating, mentoring, counseling, or out right babysitting. Sound familiar? read more
By: Ralph Burns | 2010-09-14 | Training No one has gotten more press on motivation, over the course of time, than Abraham Maslow. Each person, as we know, is truly motivated by a series of physiological then safety and security and belonging needs which Maslow goes into in his "Needs Hierarchy Theory". read more
By: Robert Ratliff | 2010-04-03 | Management I recently received a comment with some very good questions, and I wanted to address them. The comment is: Don't you also think that some employees are going to act the same no matter what you say to them? Do you think this would work for an employee who has been working for awhile, receiving the "negative" feedback, such as, "You need to pick up the pace, you're slacking." or "You keep making mistakes, don't you know what you're doing?" What if you decide to try and change an employee using this method and you try for awhile using statements like, "You're a real asset to the team. I can depend on you to keep busy" etc. But they don't change and you end up having to let them go? Couldn't this make an already difficult task, even more difficult? read more
By: Ralph Burns | 2011-02-11 | Training And those are the most difficult sales people, the ones that are motivated through a variety of different motivations, but the biggest one is the need to be assertive and to have power of their own. And these are typically the type of sales people that are highly opinionated, they are brash at times, they are boorish at times, they are fiercely independent, and they have a strong desire to have th read more
By: Freelance Writers | 2010-12-27 | Sales Several sales managers tell me that their salespeople don't meet their expectations. The sales manager pleads, begs and even threatens, however the salesperson just goes through the motions of selling and following through on proposals and sales calls. She or he never extremely engages in their jobs or careers. The sales manager merely doesn't inspire confidence, credibility or have a firm grip on the performance of their sales team. read more
By: Ralph Burns | 2010-10-05 | Sales In this article, we will continue to part 2 of our series on the Seven Forces of Sales Motivation. Now we discuss about forces 5 through 7 and further develop our comprehending with our psychology of motivating people. As you know, we went through the first 4 of the 7 forces of sales motivation on last week's episode. On this week we will complete 3 the rest of forces from 5 through 7. Just to read more
By: Ralph Burns | 2010-12-27 | Management The difference between sales performance above expectation and sales performance below expectation is largely determined by small things that a sales manager can do every day to keep his sales team at the top of their game and highly motivated. read more
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By: Wisey Lim | 2012-02-06 | Email Marketing Let me reveal to you the real way to make money online. It is by creating a sales funnel by using affiliate marketing. If you have been sending your online visitors straight to the merchant's sales page, guess what, you are leaving lot of money on the table. If you create a sales funnel and stock it with good content and online product, you could build a relationship with the subscribers and sel read more
By: Carl C. Henry | 2010-03-29 | Sales Most people never think about what they're truly motivated to achieve, and because of that, they never know how close they could be to getting it. And besides, as you'll see in this article, dreams and goals are only as useful as they are motivating. read more
By: TK Chan | 2008-09-03 | Negotiation Wonder why most people on this planet fear negotiation? Is it a myth ? Are you one of those who wants to make tons of money but may fear the risk of losing it at the deal? Do you want to know how and why you deserve to negotiate better and more? Let me share with you the real secrets that most negotiators won't or don't tell you.... read more