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This is Dave Brock’s Blog.
It offers my views on a variety of business, sales, marketing, and leadership topic. My goal is to make a difference for you, the reader, in both your professional and personal lives.
First, I have to credit my friend John Cousineau with this title. It came up in a call we had recently. It seemed an appropriate, is slightly salacious, title for this subject. I must review hundreds of pipelines and funnels every year. A majority of the funnels and pipelines are overinflated–by a large amount! Lots are the result of “wishful thinking” or simply pursuing unrealistic deals, yet sales people will carry them in their funnels, even reporting on them, for months. “You know this isn’t going to happen, ” I ask, “Why do you still carry this in your funnel?” Responses […]
Read MoreEveryday, I get inundated with offers. As you would expect, I somehow get on a lot of spammers lists for various things having to do with selling. Most of those go directly to my Junk Mail, so I don’t see them, but some still aren’t caught by my Spam Filters. All of them have the promise of “Getting Rich Quick.” A recent series have focsued on “How To Sell Effortlessly.” Effortless Selling is an interesting concept. Somehow I think I may have been doing things wrong all my career. Selling has never been effortless for me, in fact it’s been exactly the […]
Read MoreWe seemed embarrassed to admit it, or we are trained not to say this, but selling isn’t selling really about Self Interest? Despite all the things we say about being customer focused, what we really want is for the customer to buy what we are selling. We want to win, we want to beat the competition, we want to achieve our goals, beat our quotas and earn our commissions. We want to be successful. It’s really all about Self Interest…..but what’s wrong with that? Isn’t business, and life, really about Self Interest? We choose our relationships based on how they […]
Read MoreI hear the phrase, “Pay For Performance,” all the time. I think it’s a reasonable concept, that is, the better you perform, the better you get paid. Naturally, we want to pay our top performers the best, who can argue with that? Somehow, it seems as though Pay For Performance is getting distorted. If we want the sales person to do something, other than get orders, we put a bonus on it or add it to the commission plan. We want the CRM system updated, put a bonus on it. We want forecast accuracy, let’s pay the sales people for […]
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