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Not Quite Sales - Learn, Laugh, Sell.

Whether it's been in product marketing, competitive intelligence, or sales enablement I always love working with sellers. If that's you and you want to learn how others are having success hit the subscribe button. And as am added bonus I'll even throw in a joke or too along the way. ~Mike

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One key sales skill I learned from marketing

Since I ended last week with a bit of a laugh at Marketing, I thought it was only fair to start off this week’s Learn email with something I’ve learned from marketing. COPYWRITING It’s essential for engaging prospects/customers and more importantly, getting people to keep reading to the most important part of your message… the next line. Everyone knows what bad looks like. (If you don’t take a look at your SPAM folder and you’ll find a bunch of examples) But examples of good writing can be a...

Sales vs. Engineering - You Decide

You know how sometimes something is so true that you have to laugh (otherwise you’ll cry) Well THIS is one of those cases - especially if you work in software company. Ross Pomerantz (aka – Corporate Bro) and Austin Nasso (Co-Founder of Socially Inept: Tech Roast Show) depict the struggle perfectly. I don’t want to spoil the ending but they find common ground... Who wins? You vote Make sure to check out 👇 Corporate Bro and Socially Inept 👇 if you want to keep the laughs going ~Mike Want more...

PROSPECTING. If you work in sales or with sales, you know prospecting is critical to building your pipeline. BUT The real challenge comes with consistency. Are you just sending individual emails sporadically and looking to identify the new shiny silver bullet to use next? That’s where you’ll run into issues. One of the sales trainers I’ve worked with, John Barrows, preaches this all the time, and he went one step further when he shared how he (as a CEO!?!?!) holds himself accountable to keep...

It's FRIDAY More specifically the Friday before Labor Day and if you're in the US that means. It's time for FOOTBALL!!! 🏈🏈🏈 So this meme from Sales Humor seemed particularly relevant. It made me laugh and also made me think...DAMN, which one of these coaches am I?!?! Or more importantly which one are you 😉? Happy Labor Day Weekend! How can you not choose the guy holding the fire emoji with Superman!?!? See More from Sales Humor on LinkedIn

1 word. 7 letters. CHAT GPT Who knew they could affect the way we do business so much? Not me. But ChatGPT has been all the rage for the past year and brought up a lot of questions: Will it take our jobs? (Maybe) Destroy creativity for artists and musicians? (I hope not - give me anything with horns and harmonies) Be the best thing since avocado toast? (Yum, hopefully) But most importantly for this group can it be used to make selling easier? YES. Thibaut Souyris is one of the people I’ve...

First off, THANK YOU! 🙏🙏🙏 For sharing your email info and subscribing to Not Quite Sales. It’s a big ask to get anyone’s email since it seems everyone has a newsletter these days and I promise to not clog your inbox. As to the specifics of the weekly newsletter: Every Tuesday, I’ll be sharing a tip, trick, or resource that can be used to sell or to help others sell Every Friday, I’ll also share some fun to get you an early start on your weekend. You’ll see the first email tomorrow so I hope...