The Barrett team regularly reviews and discusses all aspects of selling and sales management, including what’s new and what remains consta…

Sue is a selling better strategist and advisor, sales philosopher and speaker, sales trainer and coach, writer and activist. Sue is chief executive of forward thinking sales advisory Barrett and online sales education and resource platform www.salesessentials.com. Barrett develops sales strategies, standards and education that help people and businesses sell better.
The Barrett team regularly reviews and discusses all aspects of selling and sales management, including what’s new and what remains consta…
Sales Trend 11 for our 12 Sales Trends report for 2016 is the renaissance sales manager.
The logic follows that senior executives determi…
Social selling is not a new phenomenon, as many might think.
Social selling has been around for many years in various forms and is the pr…
In the world of big data, the abundance of information, complex systems and the need to use good judgement to make sound decisions, many peo…
The frequently used business model of having sales under marketing, and therefore not having a separate sales strategy, is no longer effecti…
Guest author: Nicholas Jackson, remuneration specialist, founder and chief executive of Jackson Advisory
Sales Trend 10 from our 12 Sales…
This is how most salespeople are inducted into their sales careers:
“Welcome to our team, Rebecca. It’s great to have you on board. Her…
Sales Trend 9 from our 12 Sales Trends Report for 2016 is about using marketing technology for better sales results.
Sales and marketing te…
The other week, one business development manager (BDM) from my sales team called the sales director of a business that sells advertising in …
Sales Trend 8 from our 12 Sales Trends Report for 2016 is ‘Streaming CRM’.
Many companies have invested in feature-rich sales technol…
Here we are again, talking about unethical sales practices in the financial services industry.
The Youi fiasco, first reported by Fairfax…
If you cannot relate to the typical salesperson stereotype you are not alone.
Many people we speak to, including many salespeople themsel…