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Don’t Miss a Clue When You Sell

August 14, 2019 By maurasf

  Hindsight is 20/20 may be true.  It sure won’t help you make the sale you lost because you missed a clue as you were selling. Here are some clues that I’ve pulled in over the years that I don’t want you to miss when you sell.    There’s a right way and a wrong way to handle problems. No one likes complainers. I never consider it a complaint when the person comes … [Read more...]

How to make sales look easy: Sell & Win Like Mikaela Shiffrin

March 12, 2019 By maurasf

I’ve written about the amazing Michaela Shiffrin before.  She’s the exciting alpine skier who has achieved spectacular results. She’s won the World Cup overall title three times.  She has 56 World Cup individual victories and three Olympic medals. Two of those are gold.  She’s the best in the world. How does she make it look easy?  It’s … [Read more...]

Stop wasting your time at meetings (sales or otherwise)

February 25, 2019 By maurasf

productive sales call

You probably hate meetings if you’re like most people. When you ask people about meetings they say that meetings are a waste of time.  But what about your selling?  Your sales calls are meetings and you certainly don’t think selling your products or services is a waste of time, right?  Sales meetings with other sales member of your team are often … [Read more...]

Some Solid Advice to Avoid a Few Sales Mistakes

February 13, 2019 By maurasf

sell more with your brain

The benefit of listening to some people is that they steer you away from making avoidable mistakes. If you find yourself saying, “I would have liked to know that before I made that mistake,” here are some things you might want to think about. Endless negotiations are costing you profits.   One very smart salesman once told me that his philosophy on selling was … [Read more...]

Sales Warrior: Can You Win The Sale?

January 29, 2019 By maurasf

sales warrior

Any soldier prepares for battle so he has some chance of survival.  Have you ever noticed that sometimes it feels like a battle in the world of sales? It’s the sales warriors who prepare as they go into the marketplace that have any chance to win the sale.  Here’s what you can do to win the sale.  Forget about generic sales … [Read more...]

What to Do Now that You Broke New Year’s Resolutions.

January 23, 2019 By maurasf

sell more. no resolutions

Yum! Are you eating cookies again after you swore them off on New Year’s Eve?  Probably. I’ll bet you’re snacking again if you’re like most people.  New Year’s resolutions are notoriously hard to keep.  Why not focus instead on what you can do this year that leads to your success instead of making resolutions that are likely to be … [Read more...]

Customers Judge You. Are you surprised?

January 11, 2019 By maurasf

customers judge you

Do you know how LaGuardia customers judge it? LaGuardia Airport is now the talk of flyers.  What are they talking about?  Surprisingly it’s the bathrooms.  Concourse B at LaGuardia is now sporting new bathrooms that are spacious and clean. It’s making a lot of flyers happy.  Bathrooms are often the first stop that passengers make at an airport. Clean, uncrowded bathrooms … [Read more...]

Last Minute Sales Strategies to Make Your Goals

November 20, 2018 By maurasf

sales strategies for last minute

You have less than a month left to still make your sales goals this year. Some of you are smiling because you already exceed your numbers. Others are silently suffering because making your sales goals seems out of reach. All is not lost! There still is time for you to implement sales strategies and to make your sales goals—or come much closer—if you act now. Sales Strategy 1. … [Read more...]

Don’t Get Sold If You Are a Sales Manager

February 8, 2018 By maurasf

dont be sold as a sales manager

It might surprise you what I’ve learned after working with salespeople for over 20 years on selling skills and strategies. Some salespeople should have never been hired for sales. I sometimes wondered how they ever got hired in the first place. Obviously, the only sale that ever took place was the sale to the sales manager. That was an unfortunate sale. Here’s how you can avoid … [Read more...]

Where Luck Meets Opportunity: Understand the Buying Process

January 31, 2018 By maurasf

The Roman philosopher Seneca said, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” I say that you make your own luck. That is a very true statement for sales. When you know where your buyer is in the buying process you will become a lot luckier. You just might make more sales, too. Do more qualifying. I often qualify my prospect when I first meet with him as an … [Read more...]

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Would you take auto mechanics classes when you buy a car? Maura did because she wanted to be able to work on her car. She takes that same approach to selling. She can show you how to get below the surface of selling to learn why and how different strategies work. She will show you which skills to implement that will shorten your sales cycle and increase your sales. She was Mobil Oil's first female Lubrication Engineer in the United States and one of Chevron's top 5 salespeople in the country. She knows what works for sales.

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