Colleen’s Blog

Are you blind to the major turnoffs you may be exhibiting to your clients and prospects? Look, your clients will tell you if they think your service is no longer of value to them or if they received poor customer service from one of your reps.

Why are you good? Seriously. Have you asked yourself this question before? Let's face it. Salespeople often come with healthy egos, to put it lightly.

Could trying something new grow your sales? Working with so many different clients across a variety of industries really opens your eyes to new ideas, strategies and insights. I'm always open to embracing fresh new thinking!

There's an expression floating around these days that I love: corporate promiscuity. What exactly is that and how does it relate to us as sales leaders?

Want more sales? Of course you do. When you ask the typical seller how to create more sales, the mantra is generally to work harder, to grind more, or to double or triple the current efforts.

OutBound is the biggest conference in the sales profession and the only conference focused exclusively on sales prospecting, pipeline, and productivity.

You could be the world’s greatest salesperson selling the world’s best product, but if you can’t connect with your prospects, will your sales results reflect your expertise? If you can’t open a dialogue with prospective buyers, it becomes very difficult to sell a product or service!

Are you a sales road warrior? Every week I'm asked about travel tips, recommended hotels, airlines, and locations.

This is the hidden secret behind high sales performance. If you follow my content, or any other sales thought leader's work, you'll find a plethora of great strategies, practices, and ideas that you can apply in your business. Yet, one idea, in particular, seems to always get neglected.

You have a few top performers on your sales team. That means they don't need to be coached, right? Wrong.