5 Tips to Increase Sales Productivity TODAY by Jae-ann Rock
We all know there is a vast difference between being productive and being “busy.” The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines busywork as “work that usually appears productive or of intrinsic value but actually only keeps one occupied.” Stated another way, busywork can refer to activity that is “undertaken to pass time and stay busy but in and of itself has no actual value.” Now, more than ever, it is critical to reduce or eliminate such busy work, particularly for your well-paid professional sales staff. Left unaddressed, busy work can quickly erode sales and company...
Read MoreRevealed: 5 Lead Gen Strategies for Peak Performance by Pat Ryan
After more than a TWO DECADES of specializing in marketing to the world of corporate training and human resources, we have formed some definite opinions about how to most effectively prospect to this group. You need prospects that want and are ready to buy your solution. But not all prospects are ready to buy today. Some will be ready to buy in three months, four months, six months, nine months, a year, etc… So – here’s the key: you must be in front of them at the right moment when they need the benefits of your solution. Repetitive Exposure To be at the forefront of your...
Read MoreThe Best Training Director List Resource
The Mentor Tech Group marketing list database is highly unique. We thought we’d take a moment to call out a few specific factors that make our Corporate Training and HR marketing list data different from any other list resource available today. Our Marketing Lists are Hand-Built by Real People You see, we are not a list aggregator, and we do not use technology to build our marketing database. We CALL each company to identify the decision makers and their ACTUAL areas of responsibility. No other company does this. The Mentor Tech Group marketing list database is custom-built by a team of...
Read More5 Reasons Trade Show Leads Don’t Pan Out by Aleshia Humphries
I love getting back to the office after a trade show! Sure, there’s a lot of work to catch up on when you’ve been out of the office for a few days. But if you planned ahead, you’ve allotted yourself some time to follow up on the trade show leads, especially the HOT ones. You know the ones I’m talking about… “We have an immediate need,” “This is something we’ve been looking for,” “Send me pricing.” The list goes on and so does the follow-up. It goes on, and on, and on…. We’ve all felt the disappointment of a longer than normal sales cycle. It’s frustrating when things don’t happen...
Read More3 Critical Questions for 2020 Sales Success by Pat Ryan
Happy New Year to you! Can you believe it’s 2020? It’s time to reflect, learn, and step boldly into a new decade! As you develop your 2020 sales plans and goals, it’s important to determine what worked well and what didn’t over the last 12 months: What plans and processes helped move your company toward its goals? What needs to be tweaked, modified, or improved upon? What should be SCRAPPED altogether?? And, if you are marketing to corporate training and HR, you must also answer the following three questions which will be CRITICAL to your company’s success next year. Question #1:...
Read MoreHow to Succeed in Life (or When Selling to Corporate Training & HR!) by Pat Ryan
Why is it that some people are more successful than others? Is it luck? Is it who they know? Is it what they know? The truth is that success has a formula – and successful people follow it – some consciously, others unconsciously. While this formula may come naturally to some, it does not come naturally to most. Instead, most successful people have had to search for the answers to what makes people successful in the first place… Then they had to learn it, study it, internalize it, and most importantly, apply it. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But with so many different “experts” on...
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