We help businesses create triumphant sales teams – and we’re willing to share our secret recipe for success with you. Our recipe is simple yet effective: we put the science into selling. Some businesses rely on luck, intuition and good faith. Others rely on hard work, long hours and hoping for the best. We rely on science [...]
Santa, CEO - The Ventas Christmas Ad You know how it’s not really Christmas until you see the Coca-Cola truck advert? Well, we’re hoping that feeling will soon become synonymous with the Ventas Christmas Ad - yes, that’s right, the same one we showed you last year. This year we did a perfectly cheery new Christmas [...]
Consistent, ongoing success in sales is rarely thanks to luck. Most of the time, it’s thanks to robust sales systems. When you have formal systems in place to support your sales reps – such as a sales process – you are more likely to achieve predictable, steady revenue growth. When these systems are lacking, the opposite is often true. [...]
In this guest post, Paul O’Donohue, CEO & Founder of Sales Star, uses England's win over the All Blacks to highlight just how important it is to have a game-plan or strategy in business as well as sport. England beat the mighty All Blacks in the Rugby World Cup. Right from the get-go the [...]
Later this month Ventas Managing Director Pete Evans will be interviewing Objective Management Group (OMG) CEO Dave Kurlan about the importance and value in using sales evaluations to support the development of salespeople during a live webinar. OMG are the leader of sales evaluations and sales candidate assessments. Dave Kurlan is expert in all facets [...]
While the foundation of consultative selling is to enhance client profits, it’s near impossible to do that if the customer doesn’t trust you first. And establishing yourself as a trusted advisor starts with your very first point of contact with your client. If you want to achieve the coveted “trusted advisor” status, follow these three consultative [...]
Following our attendance at the recent Objective Management Group International Partners Conference, we have decided to share more of the great data from OMG's data warehouse. This week we wanted to share some of the findings about sales managers. The graphic below highlights the fact that experienced sales managers are only marginally better than less experienced [...]
In most organisations, the customer service department and the sales team are two separate entities. But in actual fact, they should be treated as part of a customer cycle, and not be divided in their purpose or function. Why? Because together there is a greater capacity to fuel sales even further, and this is a key [...]
The 2018 Ventas Christmas Ad - Santa, CEO Forget Elton John, Kevin the Carrot, singing delivery boxes or traveling teddy bears... we got the man himself, Santa (well, some of his understudies), the only person on the planet who doesn't need to work on their business next year.
A sales department is the engine of your business. As a sum of interlocking and connected parts, if something goes amiss it stops operating at full strength (or just ceases altogether). That's why it needs a solid system to run off – your sales process. To keep ahead of the game, you need a solid, strategic [...]
