Managing Opportunities

Proposals: how to free your salespeople from them!

We don’t want salespeople writing proposals, simple as that! However, freeing them from proposal generation can be more difficult than it initially appears.  The problem is not with minor or major opportunities — there’s an obvious approach for each.  It’s the ones in the middle that are the issue! Let’s consider the extremes first. Minor opportunity […]

Measures and General Management

Why should selling be optional?

Yesterday was a day of firsts for me. First time in Latin America.  First time presenting via a translator (it worked effortlessly).  And first time I’ve tipped more than $1,000 in a restaurant!  (1,000 pesos equals just $US0.50.) But there was one experience yesterday that I’m well and truly used to: the reaction of workshop […]