08 Apr 2020

Persuasion skills to sell your ideas
There is a lot of emphasis on coming up with innovative ideas and proposals in most organizations. Indeed many come up with good ideas too. But my own experience shows, it is one thing to come up with an idea, and it is altogether a different thing to sell or persuade others to agree to your idea. It is an art and a skill to persuade others to accept our ideas. And if you are a lea...

01 Jan 2020

Rapport building in sales
You are working on 2 deals parallel for months, both the prospects are the right fit. But after working for months and giving equal effort to both, only one of the prospect signs the deal with you whereas 2nd prospect decides to go with a competitor solution. What really has happened? What has made the deal work with one prospect whereas another one who matched the same as first didn'...

13 Oct 2017

5 tips to retain top sales talent
Sales talent attrition is a foregone conclusion. A lot of managers know that team they manage will not be same in next 6 months but still don't know what can be done. Among most of the divisions of business such as R&D, Operations, Finance, Marketing, Customer support, Sales, the attrition levels in sales seems to be always highest. The companies must pay to find and qualify poten...