Sales Manager-Coach: Looking for the Coach-able Middle

Written by Kevin Jones, Principal – Ignite Selling As performance improvement professionals, our clients have invited us to work with their sales teams on a variety of sales effectiveness challenges. Over the years, we have worked with sales professionals of...

Think Like Your Competition – in Reverse

Written by Steve Gielda, Principal – Ignite Selling Many people in selling know at this point it is important to get inside your customer’s head – to think as your customer thinks. We cannot think about our offering, talk about our offering, present...

We Only Wanna Buy from You!

Written by Kevin Jones, Principal – Ignite Selling “We aren’t looking at any alternatives to your solution. We want to work with you and no one else.” Wouldn’t it be nice to hear those magical words? While it is possible that some of you reading this have been...

In a Storm, Count on ICE

Written by Steve Gielda, Principal – Ignite Selling In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. A new virus strain of swine-origin H1N1 was spreading at a rapid rate. By the beginning of 2010, the virus had caused 17,000 deaths. Within six...