The “cold calling is dead” debate can get pretty lively, with surprising insights occasionally emerging from the endless back-and-forth. One such insight, for me anyway, came from reading the responses to a simple question: “Why is cold calling so controversial?”…
March 20, 2017, was like Christmas morning for me. Gordon Tredgold had committed to slide into the ConnectAndSell sales cockpit and hit the accelerator. Gordon, the self-professed “patron saint of hating cold calling,” was going to cold call! I had…
Like everything else since the advent of social media — and maybe since the invention of broadcast media — the question of how to structure and run a sales organization has become both a practical and a religious debate simultaneously.…
In reviewing my Life at 1,000 Dials a Day series, I was struck by just how negative it was, and amazed that anyone would hang in there while we explored questions like “Will 1,000 dials a day chew up my…
When I sat down to write Part 12 of my blog series “Life at 1,000 Dials a Day,” I thought it was going to be easy: just do a little math that includes the price of sales labor — a…
Ah — finally — my favorite topic: how much is that doggie in the window, anyway? Now that we have explored the mysteries, both wonderful and frightening, of Life at 1,000 Dials a Day, how much does it cost to…
When I do the “1,000 Dials a Day” math with someone as part of exploring whether such a speed-up might make sense for their team, I usually bring up a simple fact: if you don’t raise the bar, you are…
In this blog series’ introduction, “Going Fast — Adapting to Life at 1,000 Dials a Day,” I asked this question: “Does this change our ideal BDR/SDR-to-AE ratio?” And I answered, in brief, “Yes — you need fewer BDR/SDRs per AE…
Call it what you will — sequence, cadence, rhythm, playbook — sales, like a golf swing or a first date, goes more smoothly when the moves are in the optimal order. Intuitively, it would seem that going a lot faster…
Everyone has coaching on their mind. Are we coaching enough? Are we coaching effectively? How can we know if our coaching is making a difference? Then someone from ConnectAndSell comes along and says, “Hey! Did you know your reps can…