Sales Advice You will Absolutely HATE

By Kelly Riggs | Sales + Leadership

Let’s quit messing around and get down to it. There is one reason – and one reason only – that you don’t hit your number. One. Reason. Only. You just don’t have enough opportunities in your pipeline. PERIOD. I don’t care if you close an abysmal 1-out-of-10 deals. I don’t care if your average deal size is 25 percent lower than everyone else. Regardless of your win rate and deal size, if you put enough deals in the hopper, you WILL hit your number.

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There is Too Much Talk About Leadership

By Kelly Riggs | Sales + Leadership

There is Too Much Talk About Leadership by Kelly Riggs There is so much talk about leadership these days. If you have any presence on social media – LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook – you can’t go a day without seeing several articles on leadership. It seems EVERYBODY is in the leadership business. Everybody has an opinion. […]

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The Insanity of Sales Managers

By Kelly Riggs | Sales + Leadership

Unfortunately, the whole concept of insanity seems to be lost on many sales managers. Salespeople will produce the same mediocre results over and over, but never change a single thing they are doing. In many cases, they resist any kind of change, insisting that what they do actually works! The problem, they say, is a sluggish economy, or a product that lacks key features, or a marketing initiative that falls short, or a set of circumstances that is working against them. Anything, of course, except what they are doing. Over and over and over…

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Customer Service? You’re Kidding Yourself

By Kelly Riggs | Sales + Leadership

A week doesn’t go by that I don’t encounter bad customer service. I suspect most people could make the same claim since it’s increasingly difficult to find companies that are focused on providing genuinely exceptional service. But, do you know what all those companies with inadequate customer service have in common? Answer: They claim that customer service is one of their priorities or values. In fact, if you asked them about their service they would insist it’s very good. And they are kidding themselves.

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