Sales Blog

Business strategy is, in some ways, similar to chess. Your board (or sales territory) is full of the standard battle-ready pieces: pawns, rooks, knights, bishops, kings, and queens; each of which brings their own unique abilities to the game. A new sales rep is the rook: a relatively strong player because of their range of flexibility but limited in their movements. Similarly, the experienced sales hire would be the pawn. That’s right. A pawn. Our rep is the pawn because he tends to get overlooked in the hiring arena. But, like pawns in chess, sales reps are highly versatile.…

A Morning Routine Made Just for You What makes successful people — pro athletes, business moguls, political figures — successful? Success is swearing by a morning routine to start the day. It makes you think about your goals and what you want to accomplish and lets you focus on what’s most important. While successful people take pride in their sometimes absurd morning routines, like running in a pool, or eating exactly 3 and a quarter piece of whole wheat bread, a morning routine only needs to be consistent to be successful. If your morning routine helps you feel more productive…

Sales territories are a cost-effective way for sales managers to strategically divide their sales force by assigning specific customer groups to individual reps based on customer demographics and geography. By allocating different sales territories to individual reps, sales managers are able to maximize the productivity, and promote economies of scales in field sales. Although sales territories are integral in achieving peak efficiency within a company, formulating the correct dimensions for each individual sales territory can be difficult. It is important that you establish manageable and well-balanced territories to ensure effective usage of resources and time. Sales territories are often…

Reading a book. Going on a roadtrip. Doing your laundry. Why are these things we always want to do but never seem to get around to doing? It's a matter of interest vs intent. Although we may be very interested in doing all these things, we lack intent for doing them. What’s the difference between the two? As defined in the Oxford dictionary: The difference between intent and interest is need and resolve. You experience this every time you reach into your underwear drawer and find it empty. When this happens, you’re no longer idly interested in doing laundry--that interest…