Winning at Sales: Sales Dogs

Doing sales is easy, right? What the heck is doing sales anyways? So many engineering type brains wonder: why do we pay sales-people? What do they do all day? The answer is: not much... just everything.

Losing at sales is easy. Make a call, get rejected, give up, repeat. Very few sales-people do this... so their day gets FILLED with NOT GIVING UP! That's what you are paying the sales-person for: persistence.

Winning at sales is hard. I used to sell aerial photographs of peoples homes, now I've sold Killer NICs, Stock, and "the Karmaback viral marketing program"... each progressively harder. Here is a few of the things "I do all day"... and your sales-person should be doing too:

1. Manage dozens/hundreds of contacts and leads: reaching out to them via email and phone to set up pitches, keep them updated, etc.
2. Do 2 or 3 hour-long sales calls per day.
3. Research existing leads before each call & email to be up to date on their business and products.
4. Research new leads & beg friends for more leads.
5. Build custom presentations & custom proposals & custom contracts for each lead & prospect.
6. Learn/Practice everything about own company/products
7. Beg for more assets, more demos, etc.
8. ....I could go on and on....
   

In summary, Winning at Sales takes a Sales Dog! A hound that never gives up, never loses faith, always wags his tail, and works DAMN HARD!