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How Do We Keep Baby Boomers and Find the Successor
Baby boomers are not working past 65 as previously expected. A Gallup Poll finds that by age 68, only about a third of boomers in the US are still in the workforce, including just 16 percent who are working full time and this trend can be found in Australia also....
The Importance of Continuous Learning for Business Leaders
All business owners and professionals had to learn everything they need to learn to get to where they’re currently standing. But they don’t stop there. Even when they reach the top. They’re probably still learning new things every day to keep their success. While an...
Managing Underperformance in Staff
As many organisations enter their season for bonuses, it’s time to take a look at any underperformance that may be happening within your organisation. Even if your company doesn’t operate a bonus scheme, it’s important to regularly review staff performance to ensure...
Do You Have a Business Plan in Your Management Strategy?
Do you have a business plan? Management is an extremely varied role that requires a considerable number of skills; communication, financial, and organisation are just a few that are needed. The team here at Healthy Business Builder Group could easily write 100 blogs...
Make the Most of Your Sales Training Day
Have you thought much about your team's training day and professional development? You’ve booked into a workshop, and you’re ready to learn! But how do you make the most of your training day? With over 21 years of experience, we know a thing or two about creating the...
Sales Tips: Do you Know the Difference Between Objection and Rejection?
Searching for potential customers, clients, or buyers is essential to acquire revenue that will keep your business operations up and running. For a prospect to become an actual customer, a sales representative needs to have the proper skills, effective strategy, and...
5 Ways to Move Forward After a Setback
Hurdles, obstacles, problems, bumps-in-the-road, whatever you call them, there’s certainly no avoiding them. Setbacks are the inevitable twist and turn that often times make us not only feel like we are not making progress. But also that we are not moving in the right...
Resistance: How To Overcome Fears
If you want to succeed anywhere, knowing how to overcome fears is your biggest fears is a must. Fears can paralyze anyone from advancing to their goals; rather, it can make them retreat into a corner. Once you go after your goal and learn to overcome fears, a voice in...
It’s Okay to Fail: Ways to Face Your Fears
The road to success is not as straight and smooth as you’d like to imagine. There are multiple bumps and struggles along the way. You will stumble and fall that sometimes you wouldn’t want to get back up again. But you must learn to Face Your Fears. The business...
5 Sales Success Tips for Account Managers
Many don’t realise this, but key account managers are the often-unsung heroes in today’s business landscape. While they don’t always get the credit the sales team gets for winning new accounts, they are responsible for maintaining the customer relationships. That is...
Key Account Management | 5 Successful Winning Tips to Success
For many years, we see companies wasting their key account management training investment in people and programs simply because they have not truly understood what it takes to make it work and make it stick as a way of working (habit) in their business. Ultimately,...
How a Weak Sales Strategy Can Cost Your Business
Across many industry types and market sectors, the concept of a ‘sales strategy’ is often described as weak. And for some of us, non existent. This is often due to the relative disconnect our understanding of the academic and philosophical world’s concept of...
Effective Training | 3 Ways to Get More From Your Learning Day
We’ve all been sitting in a training room at one time or another when someone says (or maybe you even think it yourself), "yeah yeah…we’ve been here before, but nothing ever changes". Well let me tell you this is no surprise, albeit disappointing. After years of both...
Don’t Say Goodbye At The End Of A Sale: Show Customers Care
Consumer care and loyalty is important to the growth and profitability of your business. The more customers you’re able to retain, the more they’re likely to return and buy your products again or avail of your service. On the other hand, if they’re unhappy with your...
Customer Loyalty | 6 Tips to Increase It
Customer loyalty is important to the growth and profitability of your business. The more customers you are able to retain, the more they are likely to return and re-buy your products and services. On the other hand, if they’re unhappy with your service, they will be...
You’ll Make Better Sales By Not Being Pushy
You’re probably aware of this and may or may not have been guilty of this, but most sales reps use tactical approaches in selling. Their aim is generally to get a commitment to buy even when buying may not be in the customers’ best interest. If such is being taught in...
7 Sales Tips to Understand the Psychology of Customers!
Unlike engineering or accounting, selling is not a black and white profession. Especially with different types of customers. The secret to offering top notch customer service is knowing your customers. Additionally, the task of getting your existing customers to stick...
How to be a Top Sales Rep
Selling is not a cut-and-dried job. You need to have some understanding of what makes people tick, As well as what motivates them and what makes them prefer certain things over others. But also why they buy the way they do it in the first place. Crucially, some...
Ways to Avoid Getting Lowballed in Sales
No one wants to feel like they’ve been taken advantage of in a sales transaction. No one likes being lowballed. Ever. In most markets these days, prices are rising. And the need for the right solution is still increasing. This means that many buyers are still tossing...
Have You Got a Customer Service Charter?
In business, something worth doing well is worth documenting. That is why you want to fully communicate all aspects of what customer service means to your business. And also to your employees and your customers. A customer service charter is a written policy that...
Should I Know What My Sales Manager Is Doing?
We are in a day and age where technology and the internet have changed the role and responsibilities of Sales Manager. So it has never been more important for business owners to know where their sales managers are spending their time and resources. Over the last five...
6 Money Saving Habits For Your Business
Trying to cut cost in your business budget is a valiant. And often necessary practice. After all, a few dollars saved on certain areas of your operations can amount to sizeable sums over time. However, how you save your business finances can make a huge difference in...
Assess Your Business
How to Learn to Business Assess? Pausing to think where the business currently stands is one of the most difficult things to do when running a small business. But when executed properly, the business assessment will provide a fair and unbiased perspective. That is, it...
What is Your Value Proposition?
In this day and age customers have a very short attention span. That is why it is more challenging for businesses and their sales team to stay relevant in the eyes of their target customers. Consequently, more and more companies find out that they, or specifically...
Cold Calling is Horrible, But It Works!
Many consumers, and even salespeople, despise cold calling. And there is no doubt about that. However, truly effective salespeople know that to sell successfully, some amount of cold calling should be made. So, whether we like cold calling or not, it is still a...
4 Steps to Smarten Up Your Sales Team
Keeping an engaged and enthusiastic sales team is the key to achieve high sales team performance. But it is one that requires balance as well. On the one hand, focusing too much on hard targets can lead to your salespeople getting burnt out. As well as risk losing...
Why Does Effective Sales Training Fail Without Reinforcement?
Sales training rarely creates lasting success to our people without ongoing support. That is from both our management and our salespeople. Effective sales training must follow up on the learnings with reinforcement and activity. Why Effective Sales Training? Your...
Why Selling on Value is Better Than Competing on Price?
Many business owners fall to the trap of offering the lowest price to influence their customer’s purchasing decision. But there is a cricual factor they do not realise. That is, now more than ever customers are buying from companies for more than just the product with...
Practical Ways to Avoid Hype When Selling
The number of marketers using hype to sell is incredibly high. They are all over the place. Including from emails and SMS to Facebook and even more so offline. The reason for this is that many business people believe that selling hype works. But this is not true at...
Business Owners’ Primer to Sales Performance Analysis
Having insights about your sales performance is one thing, putting them into good use is another. Performing sales performance analysis is crucial as it gives you valuable insight into the inner-workings of your sales function. But also of your overall business....
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