There isn't a connection between strategic planning and sales for you if you enjoy working hard, and struggling day in and day out to hit your sales goals. Yet, if you'd rather make more and work less then strategic planning has everything to do with sales and your sales success. There are two distinct approaches to sales, and the choice is yours to make. Unfortunately most sales people take the approach of being incredibly active hoping that all that activity will result in at least some sales for you. Even though that approach sounds logical both and I know people who've tried that approach, worked themselves beyond the point of frustration and still failed. You're constantly being told by sales managers, broker dealers, underwriters, and others that if you're just active enough you'll succeed but the facts don't support that logic.

Has a prospect ever told you they wanted to buy, and then changed their mind? Or they bought and then almost immediately backed out of the deal, wanted a refund, or canceled their premium. Were you left wondering how that could happen when they seemed so excited and on board? If you've never experienced this you've got to be green. Every beginner and many seasoned professionals experience this and they don't understand why it happens. The explanation is actually pretty simple, and you have yourself to thank for the result you got.

Almost anyone in sales has some form of sales reluctance, whether it is a total reluctance to have anything to do with sales, a reluctance to call on certain prospects, or even to sell certain products or services.

Learn to love, respect and enjoy other people." - Dale Carnegie "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie was published in 1936. Since then, this book has sold more than 15 million copies and is widely credited as being the first book in the modern self-help genre. The core of author's simple philosophy is that one of the greatest human needs is to feel important. If you want to win people over to your way of thinking, they need to like you. And the way to get them to do that is to take an interest in them.

The Ten Secret Psychological Tactics Everyday People Are Using To Control The Minds Of Their Readers To Generate Cash On Demand

Often in the selling process you reach a point where the prospect tells you that they would like to buy your product but there is a real reason why they simply can't do that at this point in time.

If you are a sales person, do you have PMS for your sales production? As a sales manager, do you have PMS for your sales team? If not, then the information given here will provide you powerful tools and ideas that will help you have high levels of PMS!

It's that time of year again, when sales volume slumps during the holiday season. The CEOs and Sales Managers I work with have fits this time of year. They know their sales forces are mentally preparing well in advance of the holiday season for the usual mental check out, or what I refer to as the Seasonal Sales Melt Down, or Seasonal Sales Slump.

Salespeople under perform because they don't sell enough. They don't sell enough because they don't have enough prospective buyers to sell to. And they don't have enough prospective buyers because they don't initiate contact with new prospects in sufficient numbers.

Sales & marketing have many principles that all strategies adhere to and like all other disciplines has its own set of commonly used terminology and acronyms. Below we have listed common sales and