How Important is Control?

In our blogs this month, we’ve been talking about various aspects of a very important subject in sales: control. Control is the second of the 8 core abilities required to be a top salesperson. Control has negative meanings for some people. They resist control because...

Control Early—Close More

This month’s topic, for our blog and for our newsletter, is control. As noted in our last blog, sales training—today and pretty much since the beginning of time—focuses almost exclusively on closing. Yet this constant focus has not resulted in higher closing ratios....

Defining Real Sales Control

If there’s one factor that sales organizations cry out to have—and that salespeople themselves crave—it is control. That is control over the deal. Control over the prospect. Most of all, control over bringing the deal to a close. What is real sales control? First,...