Sara June 14, 2012 Communication, Customer Service, Sales & Sales Management

“Get Clear” by assessing your strengths

Your strengths are your talents, skills and knowledge.  Talent is your innate aptitude for an activity.  A skill is something you learn and become more adept at doing through ...

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Sara November 9, 2011 Human Resource Management, Management, Operations, Sales & Sales Management

53% of surveyed workers say they express anger at work. Only 19% express joy – why?

Hum, that’s an interesting set of stats.  The “anger” piece probably doesn’t surprise anyone.  I bet in the last 3 seconds you even visualized the last ...

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Sara October 26, 2011 Communication, Internet, Marketing, Operations, Sales & Sales Management, Websites

Customer Value Management = greater productivity and profits

  Greater productivity and profits make good business sense.  The things that you identify in your customer value surveys that will increase your productivity and ultimately ...

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Sara October 20, 2011 Management, Marketing, Professional Development, Sales & Sales Management

Who’s “value” are you delivering?

Our industry statistics tell us that the majority of an agency’s clients are within 20 years, 10 either way, of the agency principal’s age.  Because of that majority ...

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Sara October 11, 2011 Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development, Sales & Sales Management, Synerdynamics

Real, organic change in an organization starts with individuals who change themselves.

Talk about a four-lettered word in many of the organizations I work with –  that’s “Change”.  OK, I haven’t totally lost it, I know ...

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Sara September 21, 2011 Management, Marketing, Sales & Sales Management, Synerdynamics

Keep the sales conversation centered on opportunities, not problems.

With executives, consider avoiding the classic “pain-based” questioning model” where salespeople try to diagnose and instantly fix an area of client concern.  ...

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Sara September 20, 2011 Management, Marketing, Professional Development, Sales & Sales Management, Synerdynamics

Successful sales conversations center on opportunities, not problems.

  Too many times typcial sales people spend more time tearing down the competition’s lousy job than highlighting on the positives that they bring to the table.  Have ...

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Sara September 15, 2011 Management, Marketing, Professional Development, Sales & Sales Management, Synerdynamics

Do you more talking or listening in your sales calls?

Yes, of course you’ve got to talk, but are you using your breath to ask good questions or sell your “stuff”? Marc Miller in “Seat at the Table” ...

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Sara September 13, 2011 Marketing, Professional Development, Sales & Sales Management, Synerdynamics

Pure proposals are dead – solutions tied to client’s needs are the hot ticket these days.

Do you proposals include positioning pages that show the client the “pains” you’ve discovered in your early diagnostics and how you plan to meet and exceed those ...

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Sara September 9, 2011 Marketing, Professional Development, Sales & Sales Management, Synerdynamics

Salesperson, or trusted business parter or advisor. Which are you?

If you’re not positioning yourself as a key factor in your client’s strategic business management team you’re nothing more than a salesperson – please ...

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