{"id":110,"date":"2011-03-09T17:18:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wensmedia.com\/\/salesarchive\/permalink\/2011\/3\/9\/121834.html"},"modified":"2011-03-09T17:18:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T17:18:34","slug":"how-did-you-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/uncategorized\/how-did-you-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did You Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 20pt\">How Did You Do It?<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are a sales manager, you probably started in this business as a sales rep. And it was all about the math of selling. The number of cold calls and the number of &lsquo;packages&rsquo; you presented became part of your success formula.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now as a sales manager, with probably very little management training, you&rsquo;re expected to train the troops. Your idea of &lsquo;training&rsquo; might go something like this; &ldquo;Whe<span style=\"color: black\">n I was on the street I &hellip;&rdquo;.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stop it! No one cares how you did it &lsquo;in the old days&rsquo;.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">You know there have been dramatic changes in the world; changing technologies, changing station ownership, changing economies, changing, changing, changing.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; What is it that makes you think the marketing and sales arena is the only thing that hasn&rsquo;t changed from &lsquo;When I was on the street&rsquo;?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Let&rsquo;s look at old world cold calling as an example.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">How do you feel when a telemarketer interrupts your dinner to sell you something you <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">haven&rsquo;t felt a need for? How do you think your prospects feel when you embark upon a door to door coldcall campaign to sell them a one-size-fits-all package of the week? Most sales people don&rsquo;t like making cold calls, and certainly most clients view these interruptions to doing business as rude! So why do we do it?<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve focused on cold calls, because traditionally, that&rsquo;s the beginning of the sales process, but frankly every step in modern strategic selling has changed today. And sales train<span style=\"color: black\">ing has changed as well. Training is no longer a manager&rsquo;s &lsquo;show and tell&rsquo;.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Like with all other aspects of your business, you can either embrace the changing world of sales and sales training, or continue doing the same thing over and over. I&rsquo;m sure you&rsquo;ve heard what Einstein has called doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the new media world, there is a better way of training and selling. It involves creating warm calls rather than cold calls, using technology to build stronger customer relationships, and it&rsquo;s been proven to grow your long-term revenues.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; color: black; font-size: 12pt\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Business guru Jack Welch says, &ldquo;There is always a better way. Find it!&rdquo;.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 12pt\"> Click here if you would like to discuss implementing our &lsquo;better way&rsquo; for 2011.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; How Did You Do It? &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are a sales manager, you probably started in this business as a sales rep. And it was all about the math of selling. The number of cold calls and the number of &lsquo;packages&rsquo; you presented became part of your success formula. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Now as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ensmediausa.com\/ens-on-sales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}