by Cian McLoughlin | Jul 4, 2018 | Sales Tips and Tricks
At some stage of our career, all of us will work with someone who seems to have the Midas touch when it comes to making sales. They smash their target every year, customers love them, team members want to work with them … it’s infuriating! How are they so...
by Cian McLoughlin | Jun 15, 2018 | Psychology of Buying, Sales Tips and Tricks
As we edge closer to the end of the quarter/financial year, the pressure to close deals is almost certainly increasing. The funny thing about being under pressure to close deals, is that our customers and prospects often sense our growing desperation. When we project...
by Cian McLoughlin | Mar 13, 2017 | Psychology of Buying, Sales Tips and Tricks, Training, Win Loss Insights
‘Fake it til you make it’… …Is a mantra most people in business understand and one many of us have used as the cornerstone of our professional lives. Without occasionally ‘faking it’ along the way, we would never move up the corporate ladder or overcome...
by Cian McLoughlin | Jan 24, 2017 | Sales Tips and Tricks
People aren’t buying what you’re selling, they’re buying you and your stories In our media saturated world, cutting a path through the forest of fake news and content clutter can be a herculean task. Even now, as I sit down to write this post, I’m pausing to wonder...
by Cian McLoughlin | Nov 7, 2016 | Psychology of Buying, Sales Tips and Tricks, Transformation
A young sales rep asked me recently to explain the differences between the B2B sales profession these days, by comparison with the heyday of technology sales. I’m not sure if my grey hair had given him the mistaken assumption I’d begun my career when IBM was...
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