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Meaningful Sales Training Outcomes Require Meaningful Steps. To execute their growth strategies , CEOs and sales leaders often need their sales teams to behave differently by selling differently to different buyers. Challenge for Sales Training – Live and Remote. MORE
The beauty and personal care division of a global packaging company increased sales by aligning the leadership team, establishing operating mechanisms, and establishing accountability. Within one year, sales in these segments grew by nine percent. CASE STUDY. MORE
AUGUST 11, 2025
Strategy & Corporate Finance InsightsSome companies are using automation, machine learning, and advanced analytics to make the crystal ball clearer. Here’s how your company can do the same. MORE
In this episode, host Michael Zipursky guests mentor and sales growth advisor, Ari Galper. Consulting Success Podcast Business Growth client trust Consultant sales growth sales strategy trust-based selling MORE
What Is a Sales Playbook? Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Three Prerequisites to Creating a Better Sales Playbook. Sales Strategy. Sales Culture. Sales Talent. Elements of a Great Sales Playbook. MORE
Sales & Marketing Strategy Digital ArticleApproaches that will give your team an edge. MORE
The Bad News No responses to your calls and no replies to your emails – your sales prospect has gone dark! This can be frustrating – especially after good initial sales calls and a seemingly interested new client. The Good News In the sales process , it’s not over until it’s over. MORE
NOVEMBER 4, 2025
Marketing & Sales InsightsThe COVID-19 pandemic has upended norms about retail, brand loyalty, and consumer behavior. That’s creating both a massive challenge and a rare opportunity for bold players to accelerate growth. MORE
Lies and Sales Negotiation Strategy. How often do you think lies have been a part of your sales negotiation strategy – either implicitly, explicitly, on your side or on the other side of the table? Do lies work as part of a long term sales negotiation strategy? The implication, then, for sales negotiations is that when the stakes are high, we should pay attention to our instincts. Implications for Your Negotiating Strategy. MORE
With her permission, I’m sharing it with you so we all will remember this the next time we’re behind the wheel… Avoid This Killer Sales Strategy at All Costs This is the most important blog post I've ever written. The post Killer Sales Strategy appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC. I read the following article by Jill Konrath. MORE
Are You Confusing Sales Prospects? But, as part of new sales growth strategy to improve recurring revenue, marketing re-packaged the service as a “subscription” and “membership.” Trouble Ahead Unfortunately, it’s all too easy to be guilty of confusing sales prospects. MORE
Does Your Sales Team Know How to Avoid Bad Sales Hires? A good sales hire can successfully do their job. The Results of Hiring Too Fast Too often sales managers end up hiring unqualified or unsuitable candidates that they have to replace within a few months. MORE
NOVEMBER 18, 2025
How can retailers ensure strong sales this holiday season amid continuing supply-chain problems? Two McKinsey experts share their insights. Retail Insights Consumer packaged goods Supply chain management MORE
Believe it or not, Strategy VS Tactics: Answer These Questions To Grow Your Consulting Business is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Articles business growth strategies Marketing Tactic Sales Strategy for Consultants MORE
To succeed in sales, you must know your customer. One of the simplest distinctions in sales is that between B2C, which stands for business-to-customer, and B2B, which stands for business-to-business. B2C and B2B sales are very different processes, requiring different strategies. MORE
Why a Winning Sales Strategy Matters|. Strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. A winning sales strategy clearly outlines where you should win the majority of the time, what sets you apart from your competition, how sales success will be measured and the critical few sales scenarios that matter most in terms of meeting your sales targets. MORE
Every High Performing Sales Leader. Being a high performing sales leader is not easy. To succeed, there are some key questions every sales leader must answer. Questions Every Sales Leader Must Answer. Can your sales leaders answer the following questions? MORE
Do you know how to design an effective sales kickoff? What would make your sales kickoff high performing? Unfortunately, not enough people know how to design an effective sales kickoff - one that you and your sales team find valuable and worth their time. MORE
In this episode, Simon Bowen, Creator of The Models Method, joins Michael Zipursky as they talk about improving sales and helping businesses communicate a winning strategy by using visual thinking and models. Why is the visual side more compelling? MORE
Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach? MORE
As someone currently in management consulting who has previously done tech sales for a major software company, I was amused by Martin Keller’s article championing tech sales (sometimes known as consultative or customer success driven sales) over management consulting. In tech sales, professional development is focused on specific strategies and tactics that can be used to meet quotas. MORE
Branding And Naming Strategies That Help Win Consulting Business With Dave Ramos: Podcast #128 is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Success Podcast Business Branding Business Growth Consulting Business Marketing sales Strategic Alignment MORE
AUGUST 23, 2025
Market challenges and legacy decisions are forcing consumer-packaged-goods companies to rethink their strategies for revenue growth management. Marketing & Sales Insights Growth Pricing Customer experience & loyalty MORE
Sales Alignment Keynote Address. The Sales Enablement Soirée is the largest virtual event exclusively for sales enablement professionals to connect live and collaborate in real-time with peers and industry luminaries. Sales culture is more than “soft touchy feely stuff.” MORE
In this episode, Tell Better Stories And Win More Consulting Sales With John Livesay: Podcast #125 is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Success Podcast better sales Better Selling Through Storytelling Consulting sales strategy telling better stories The Pitch Whisperer MORE
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025
How can industrial companies maintain strong bonds with distributors while cultivating direct sales through e-commerce? Advanced Electronics Insights Machinery & industrial goods Sales Digital Strategy MORE
Shorten Your Sales Cycle In sales, time is money. The more quickly you can close the right deals with the right clients – or kick unqualified leads out of your pipeline – the more successful you and your sales team will become. For more sales in less time, don’t be shy. MORE
Wouldn’t it be nice to know the traits of successful sales managers? Sales managers have an awesome responsibility. They must motivate their team to achieve very concrete sales targets and do so under the constant pressure of executives who are impatient with excuses and for whom failure is no option. The Job of a Sales Manager. The Top Seven Traits of Successful Sales Managers. The top performing sales managers are: 1. The Pressure to Succeed. MORE
Do you ever feel like you’re fighting an uphill battle in your consulting sales, trying to prove your value to potential consulting clients? Triple Your Consulting Sales With These 2 Strategies is a post from: Consulting Success. MORE
Directing your prospect to online information about your services (what I call a Sales Letter). Having a selling conversation with your prospect (what I call a Strategy Session). But the most neglected part of this process is that durn* sales letter. Why a sales letter is absolutely essential. So why do they need to read your sales letter before you have that selling conversation? However… What should go into your sales letter? MORE
Mastering The Art Of Consulting Sales And Client Relationships With Andrew Sobel: Podcast #132 is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Success Podcast Client Loyalty Client Relationships Consulting Business Consulting Sales marketing strategy Scaling Growth MORE
The First Step How is your sales pitch going? Welcome to the world that too many sales reps endure day after day. You need to learn how to create more open sales prospects. What they are missing is the critical first step in any effective sales process. MORE
The greatest challenge of all companies is to figure out and properly implement profitable growth strategies to boost sales and enter the profit zone. Today’s guest is Thomas Michael Hogg, the author of Profitable Growth Strategy: 7 proven best practices from German companies. MORE
Are you worried that your sales follow up email comes across as way too pushy? Use This Sales Follow-Up Email To Get More Clients is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Articles Client Relationships Email Marketing Follow Up Strategies Higher Open Rates With Emails MORE
Do the Math Trying to define high performing sales territories that are balanced, and consistently high producing is the source of many a sales manager’s headaches. According to business sales training leaders, there is always room for improvement. MORE
More than 30% of sales activities can benefit from automation — if implemented effectively. Sales & Marketing Sales Technology Innovation Digital Article MORE
Consulting Success
NOVEMBER 4, 2025
Do you ever feel like you’re fighting an uphill battle in your consulting sales, trying to prove your value to potential consulting clients? Triple Your Consulting Sales With These 2 Strategies is a post from: Consulting Success.
McKinsey & Company
AUGUST 23, 2025
Market challenges and legacy decisions are forcing consumer-packaged-goods companies to rethink their strategies for revenue growth management. Marketing & Sales Insights Growth Pricing Customer experience & loyalty
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Consulting Success
MARCH 30, 2026
Mastering The Art Of Consulting Sales And Client Relationships With Andrew Sobel: Podcast #132 is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Success Podcast Client Loyalty Client Relationships Consulting Business Consulting Sales marketing strategy Scaling Growth
Consulting Success
FEBRUARY 10, 2026
In this episode, Tell Better Stories And Win More Consulting Sales With John Livesay: Podcast #125 is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Success Podcast better sales Better Selling Through Storytelling Consulting sales strategy telling better stories The Pitch Whisperer
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Sales enablement is the strategic process of providing sales teams with the content, guidance, and mentorship needed to engage targeted buyers. It’s all about equipping sales professionals with the tools they need to put their best-selling foot forward. And if sales teams want to continuously sell better -- and faster -- their sales enablement process must have a game-winning strategy. It's time for you to start selling smarter - and hitting your sales number - with the best B2B database in the market. Get started today.
Consulting Success
OCTOBER 21, 2025
Believe it or not, Strategy VS Tactics: Answer These Questions To Grow Your Consulting Business is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Articles business growth strategies Marketing Tactic Sales Strategy for Consultants
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 7, 2025
In this episode, Simon Bowen, Creator of The Models Method, joins Michael Zipursky as they talk about improving sales and helping businesses communicate a winning strategy by using visual thinking and models. Why is the visual side more compelling?
Consulting Success
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025
Are you worried that your sales follow up email comes across as way too pushy? Use This Sales Follow-Up Email To Get More Clients is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Articles Client Relationships Email Marketing Follow Up Strategies Higher Open Rates With Emails
McKinsey & Company
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025
How can industrial companies maintain strong bonds with distributors while cultivating direct sales through e-commerce? Advanced Electronics Insights Machinery & industrial goods Sales Digital Strategy
LSA Global
AUGUST 25, 2025
Is It Time to Pivot Your Sales Strategy? Are you and your sales team agile enough? You will find out just how quickly you can pivot your sales strategy and your sales team when a crisis occurs. Do you need to pivot your sales strategy or sales approach?
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
As buyer expectations continue to heighten, marketing and sales teams are feeling pressured to deliver authentic messaging to buyers at every point of their customer journey. This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies, and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.
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Tom Spencer
SEPTEMBER 5, 2025
To succeed in sales, you must know your customer. One of the simplest distinctions in sales is that between B2C, which stands for business-to-customer, and B2B, which stands for business-to-business. B2C and B2B sales are very different processes, requiring different strategies.
Consulting Success
APRIL 8, 2026
The greatest challenge of all companies is to figure out and properly implement profitable growth strategies to boost sales and enter the profit zone. Today’s guest is Thomas Michael Hogg, the author of Profitable Growth Strategy: 7 proven best practices from German companies.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 20, 2025
Sales & Marketing Strategy Digital ArticleApproaches that will give your team an edge.
LSA Global
JULY 16, 2025
Do the Math Trying to define high performing sales territories that are balanced, and consistently high producing is the source of many a sales manager’s headaches. According to business sales training leaders, there is always room for improvement.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
This eBook takes a look at three headache-free strategies you can employ today to accelerate selling the right way. Read on to learn how to adopt specific workflows and approaches that append your existing processes to deliver value to your prospects and internal counterparts.
LSA Global
AUGUST 2, 2025
Shorten Your Sales Cycle In sales, time is money. The more quickly you can close the right deals with the right clients – or kick unqualified leads out of your pipeline – the more successful you and your sales team will become. For more sales in less time, don’t be shy.
McKinsey & Company
FEBRUARY 12, 2026
Full-funnel marketing is not just a campaign strategy; it’s a total shift in how marketing works. Marketing & Sales Insights
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 9, 2026
Why a Winning Sales Strategy Matters|. Strategic sales clarity accounts for 31% of the difference between high and low performing sales teams. A winning sales strategy clearly outlines where you should win the majority of the time, what sets you apart from your competition, how sales success will be measured and the critical few sales scenarios that matter most in terms of meeting your sales targets.
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 15, 2026
The First Step How is your sales pitch going? Welcome to the world that too many sales reps endure day after day. You need to learn how to create more open sales prospects. What they are missing is the critical first step in any effective sales process.
Advertiser: ZoomInfo
Businesses are laying off workers, shutting their doors (some permanently), and struggling to react to the radical destruction that coronavirus (COVID-19) is doing to our society and communities. However, there’s no team better suited to lead that charge than the marketing department.
LSA Global
DECEMBER 15, 2025
Are You Confusing Sales Prospects? But, as part of new sales growth strategy to improve recurring revenue, marketing re-packaged the service as a “subscription” and “membership.” Trouble Ahead Unfortunately, it’s all too easy to be guilty of confusing sales prospects.
Consulting Success
MARCH 2, 2026
Branding And Naming Strategies That Help Win Consulting Business With Dave Ramos: Podcast #128 is a post from: Consulting Success. Consulting Success Podcast Business Branding Business Growth Consulting Business Marketing sales Strategic Alignment
Leadership Planning with Liz Weber CMC
MARCH 6, 2026
With her permission, I’m sharing it with you so we all will remember this the next time we’re behind the wheel… Avoid This Killer Sales Strategy at All Costs This is the most important blog post I've ever written. The post Killer Sales Strategy appeared first on Weber Business Services, LLC. I read the following article by Jill Konrath.
LSA Global
MAY 5, 2025
Every High Performing Sales Leader. Being a high performing sales leader is not easy. To succeed, there are some key questions every sales leader must answer. Questions Every Sales Leader Must Answer. Can your sales leaders answer the following questions?
Tom Spencer
MAY 23, 2025
As someone currently in management consulting who has previously done tech sales for a major software company, I was amused by Martin Keller’s article championing tech sales (sometimes known as consultative or customer success driven sales) over management consulting. In tech sales, professional development is focused on specific strategies and tactics that can be used to meet quotas.
The Fearless Marketer
JULY 1, 2025
Directing your prospect to online information about your services (what I call a Sales Letter). Having a selling conversation with your prospect (what I call a Strategy Session). But the most neglected part of this process is that durn* sales letter. Why a sales letter is absolutely essential. So why do they need to read your sales letter before you have that selling conversation? However… What should go into your sales letter?
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 13, 2026
Do you know how to design an effective sales kickoff? What would make your sales kickoff high performing? Unfortunately, not enough people know how to design an effective sales kickoff - one that you and your sales team find valuable and worth their time.
McKinsey & Company
NOVEMBER 18, 2025
How can retailers ensure strong sales this holiday season amid continuing supply-chain problems? Two McKinsey experts share their insights. Retail Insights Consumer packaged goods Supply chain management
LSA Global
MAY 18, 2025
The Bad News No responses to your calls and no replies to your emails – your sales prospect has gone dark! This can be frustrating – especially after good initial sales calls and a seemingly interested new client. The Good News In the sales process , it’s not over until it’s over.
Brimstone Consulting
APRIL 7, 2026
The beauty and personal care division of a global packaging company increased sales by aligning the leadership team, establishing operating mechanisms, and establishing accountability. Within one year, sales in these segments grew by nine percent. CASE STUDY.
McKinsey
NOVEMBER 4, 2025
Marketing & Sales InsightsThe COVID-19 pandemic has upended norms about retail, brand loyalty, and consumer behavior. That’s creating both a massive challenge and a rare opportunity for bold players to accelerate growth.
LSA Global
MARCH 9, 2026
Wouldn’t it be nice to know the traits of successful sales managers? Sales managers have an awesome responsibility. They must motivate their team to achieve very concrete sales targets and do so under the constant pressure of executives who are impatient with excuses and for whom failure is no option. The Job of a Sales Manager. The Top Seven Traits of Successful Sales Managers. The top performing sales managers are: 1. The Pressure to Succeed.
LSA Global
JULY 17, 2025
Meaningful Sales Training Outcomes Require Meaningful Steps. To execute their growth strategies , CEOs and sales leaders often need their sales teams to behave differently by selling differently to different buyers. Challenge for Sales Training – Live and Remote.
LSA Global
APRIL 28, 2025
Sales Alignment Keynote Address. The Sales Enablement Soirée is the largest virtual event exclusively for sales enablement professionals to connect live and collaborate in real-time with peers and industry luminaries. Sales culture is more than “soft touchy feely stuff.”
Consulting Success
MARCH 16, 2026
In this episode, host Michael Zipursky guests mentor and sales growth advisor, Ari Galper. Consulting Success Podcast Business Growth client trust Consultant sales growth sales strategy trust-based selling
LSA Global
FEBRUARY 22, 2026
Lies and Sales Negotiation Strategy. How often do you think lies have been a part of your sales negotiation strategy – either implicitly, explicitly, on your side or on the other side of the table? Do lies work as part of a long term sales negotiation strategy? The implication, then, for sales negotiations is that when the stakes are high, we should pay attention to our instincts. Implications for Your Negotiating Strategy.
McKinsey
AUGUST 11, 2025
Strategy & Corporate Finance InsightsSome companies are using automation, machine learning, and advanced analytics to make the crystal ball clearer. Here’s how your company can do the same.
LSA Global
OCTOBER 11, 2025
What Is a Sales Playbook? Like a playbook in sports that plans for the most frequent and most important in-game situations, a sales playbook is a unique collection of sales scenarios, strategies, plans, tactics, and tools to help a sales team consistently win when the stakes are high. Three Prerequisites to Creating a Better Sales Playbook. Sales Strategy. Sales Culture. Sales Talent. Elements of a Great Sales Playbook.
LSA Global
APRIL 1, 2026
Does Your Sales Team Know How to Avoid Bad Sales Hires? A good sales hire can successfully do their job. The Results of Hiring Too Fast Too often sales managers end up hiring unqualified or unsuitable candidates that they have to replace within a few months.
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