What you experience is what you remember. The more emotional the experience, the deeper it is branded into your memory. Experience has a massive impact on buying decisions. Every touch point, every time you or someone in your company engages a customer, it creates an experience - something they remember. When they have a negative experience, they tend to vote with their feet (and their wallets) and head straight to your competitors. When customers have positive emotional experienc...

The true secret to success in sales is caring. Caring for others, caring for results, caring for growth. Those who care the most, sell the most.Really Care For Them is for those who want to learn to do sales the right way with the most success as fast as possible. It helps readers escape adversarial, competitive, self-destructive sales behavior by developing a collaborative, trust-based approach to selling in a way that builds value and trust. Many sales b...

The New Psychology of SellingThe sales profession is in the midst of a perfect storm. Buyers have more power—more information, more at stake, and more control over the sales process—than any time in history. Technology is bringing disruptive change at an ever-increasing pace, creating fear and uncertainty that leaves buyers clinging to the status quo. Deteriorating attention spans have made it difficult to get buyers to sit still long enough to “challenge,” “teach,...

Ditch the failed sales tactics, fill your pipeline, and crush your numberWith over 500,000 copies sold Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting.The brutal fact is the number one reason for failure in sales is an empty pipe and the root cause of an empty pip...

And just like that, everything changed . . .A global pandemic. Panic. Social distancing. Working from home.In a heartbeat, we went from happy hours to virtual happy hours. From conferences to virtual conferences. From selling to virtual selling.To remain competitive, sales and business professionals were required to shift the way they engaged prospects and customers.Overnight, virtual selling became the new normal. Now, it is here to stay.

Upgrade your sales process by plugging into the new power of artificial intelligenceIn today's cutthroat sales world, where sales professionals are constantly juggling multiple responsibilities and navigating a sea of relentless competitors, everyone is looking for an edge. What if that EDGE is found in a tool powerful enough to give you more time in your sales day, accelerate your productivity, and still leave room for the human touch that's vital to building rela...

There are few one-size-fits-all solutions in sales. Context matters. Complex sales are different from one-call closes. B2B is different than B2C. Prospects, territories, products, industries, companies, and sales processes are all different. There is little black and white in the sales profession.Except for objections. There is democracy in objections. Every salesperson must endure many NOs in order to get to YES.Objections don’t care or consider:Who ...

Supercharge your selling skills in just three months with advice from one of the world's most popular sales expertsIn 90 Days to Level Up Your Sales Skills, bestselling author and world-renowned sales trainer and leader, Jeb Blount, delivers a groundbreaking new guide to unlocking your sales potential and reaching new professional heights. This hands-on, no-BS roadmap to sales success is perfect for anyone who’s new to sales, stepping into a sales leadersh...

Combine LinkedIn and AI to multiply your selling potentialMost sales professionals and entrepreneurs are desperate to find new techniques to help them break through the overwhelming noise and get the attention of high-value decision makers. They want to make fewer cold calls, face less resistance, and have more meaningful conversations.This is why Jeb Blount (the world's most Fanatical Prospector) and Brynne Tillman (the LinkedIn Whisperer) joined forces to...

"If we don't drop our price, we will lose the deal."That's the desperate cry from salespeople as they try to win deals in competitive marketplaces. While the easy answer is to lower the price, the company sacrifices margin--oftentimes unnecessarily.To win deals at the prices you want,the strategy needed is differentiation. Most executives think marketing is the sole source of differentiation. But what about the sales function of the company? This com...

The ultimate guide to relationships, influence and persuasion in 21st century business.What is most important to your success as a sales or business professional? Is it education, experience, product knowledge, job title, territory, or business dress? Is it your company's reputation, product, price, marketing collateral, delivery lead times, in stock ratios, service guarantees, management strength, or warehouse location? Is it testimonials, the latest Forbes write ...

One of the biggest myths that plagues the business world today is that our ability to network depends on having the “gift-of-gab.” You don’t have to be outgoing to be successful at networking. You don’t have to become a relentless self-promoter. In fact, you don’t have to act like an extrovert at all.The truth is that when introverts are armed with a plan that lets them be their authentic selves, they make the best networkers.Matthew Pollard, an introvert h...