The power of a good script and a great value proposition and proper motivation was something I learned at the ripe old age of 14. The freshman class of my high school had the typical fund raiser and the product we were selling was recycled paper that was manufactured into stationery and envelopes. At that [...]
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August 6th, 2010
Selling Rules 102
Bill Johnson 
Posted in Customer Acquisition Management, Jesubi, Programmatic Selling, Sales Force Automation, Sales Management, Sales Productivity, Tribal Knowledge, Uncategorized 
Tags: Cold Calling, customer acquisition, Customer Satisfaction, increasing sales pipeline, Jesubi, Lead Scoring, Opportunity Management, Sales Tracking System, SFA 
No Comments » June 11th, 2010
Credibility in Selling
The numbers are in and they are very, very good. Jesubi is significantly increasing our clients sales productivity. If an owner of a company or a VP of Sales looks into his/her own forecast the reality is the forecast increases when the sales team has the opportunity to have more discussions regarding the company’s own [...]
June 2nd, 2010
Selling rules 101
I have been a sales guy ( i hesitate to use professional in the context of this story ) for 40 plus years. Like most of my peers who have been wildly successful, I wasn’t born on third base with an easy path to home plate. I started with nothing and everything I’ve been able to achieve [...]
May 21st, 2010
Can a sales force automation tool help a company sell more?
Let’s face it sales force automation tools have been around for over 25 years now. If asked how they are used most companies would reply they are a repository of all our intellectual property of business contacts, activities and customer information. No question the industry has helped companies retain the knowledge base of contacts and [...]
Bill Johnson Posted in Customer Acquisition Management, Customer Satisfaction, Jesubi, Programmatic Selling, Prospecting help, Sales Force Automation, Sales Management, Sales Persistency, Sales Productivity, Systematic Selling, Tribal Knowledge Tags: Cold Calling, CRM, customer acquisition, increasing sales pipeline, Jesubi, Opportunity Management, Sales Forecast, Sales Metrics, SFA, Systematic Selling No Comments » March 10th, 2010
Culture of Accountability
Have you ever wondered why some sales teams blow their numbers out consistently quarter over quarter, year over year? In a discussion with a friend of mine we both agreed that the most successful sales teams we had encountered always had a culture of accountability. It usually started at the top and worked its way [...]
Bill Johnson Posted in Cold Calling, Customer Acquisition Management, Programmatic Selling, Prospecting help, Sales Force Automation, Sales Management, Sales Persistency, Tribal Knowledge Tags: Cold Calling, CRM, customer acquisition, Customer Satisfaction, increasing sales pipeline, Lead Scoring, SFA, Systematic Selling No Comments » August 16th, 2009
Jesubi Doubles Sales Prospecting
LeadJen a marketing services company that does outsourced appointment setting was Jesubi’s first customer. Because LeadJen has to constantly benchmark itself against internal teams, maximizing sales prospecting efficiency and results are vitally important to its business. One of the benchmarks that LeadJen uses is touches per hour. How many times does a sales rep leave [...]
Bill Johnson Posted in LeadJen, Sales Management, Sales Productivity, Sales Prospecting No Comments » August 10th, 2009
What is Prospecting Velocity™?
Most sales managers know that if they have 100 deals in the pipeline at the beginning of the quarter how many will close and how long it will take to work a prospect from the earliest stages of the sales pipeline through to closure. Unfortunately, very, very few sales people or sales managers have any [...]
Bill Johnson Posted in Prospecting help, Prospecting Velocity, Sales Connect Rates, Sales Conversion, Sales Management No Comments » 
