by Nick Anderson | Mar 16, 2021 | Leadership, Nick's Blog, Uncategorized
Many people today are looking to the end of the Covid Tunnel and how to rebuild their sales pipeline. They may look to the latest app or system, but they have tunnel vision when it comes to understanding what their competitors are planning. It’s easy to buy technology...
by Nick Anderson | Nov 2, 2018 | Nick's Blog, Sales Effectiveness, Sales Management, Uncategorized
An account plan is essentially a change management plan. Strategic account management is, after all, about creating a vision and inspiring buyers with that vision of what’s possible and the difference you can make for them, if they were to align more closely and...
by Nick Anderson | Feb 3, 2017 | Sales Effectiveness, Sales Management
Most sales leaders at some time get stuck trying to fix things with more of the same, and not doing different things. Typical reasons: Fear of “sticking their heads above the parapet”(again) Not trusting their bosses, peers or their people Not trusting the new and...
by Nick Anderson | Sep 14, 2016 | Sales Effectiveness
A whopping 45.4% of salespeople miss their quota according to the CSO Insights 2015 Sales Compensation and Performance Management Study, only 54.6% of sales professionals produce enough revenue to meet quota. This deficiency raises an important question: What is the...
by Nick Anderson | Jan 29, 2014 | Sales Effectiveness
Being competitive comes from people who are well aligned with their organization’s intent and mission. If you take that extra care to recruit and select such people, my question is: How easy is it to waste the opportunity you have created? Certainly, having faith that...