Are You Fighting for the Right Customers?

Do you know which clients to fight to keep? Which prospects should you own in the marketplace? How would you know?

Face-Time or Phone-Time To Fill Your Sales Pipeline?

By Howard Shore, Executive and Business Coach

Have you noticed that the higher up people move in their organizations or the longer someone has been in a sales role, whether it be in professional services or a traditional sales role, the farther away they move from the daily regimen of outbound prospecting calls to schedule appointments

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Stop Competing on Price

By Howard Shore, Executive and Business Coach

It is not unusual to find companies that have made a lot of changes to the business only to find that those changes had little impact on its ability to increase market share, or worse yet, caused market share to decline.

Need For Approval and Sales Don’t Mix

By Howard Shore, Chief Growth Officer

“Need for approval” is the second-most powerful and most common weakness we find in sales management and their people. Research conducted by Objective Management concluded that someone with “need for approval” will be about 35% less effective than someone without this weakness.

12 Questions Critical to Achieving Sales Plans

By Howard Shore, Business Coach and Chief Growth Officer

As we sat down with CEOs at the beginning of the year it became obvious that most organizations have “dreams” instead of ”goals.” The difference between a “dream” and a “goal” is an action plan. To develop plans of action to achieve your goals, you have to

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