We’ve been hard at work further developing and fine-tuning PlanPlus Online for you! Below is an overview of some of the very exciting new features and enhancements Mobile UI We are happy to announce a complete overhaul of our mobile-optimized application! Now it’s easier than ever to access your PlanPlus Online account from your favorite [...]
http://youtu.be/hXNgOHjMJec The PlanPlus Online Form Builder is a great tool to generate new leads for your business and track them in your PPOL account. Benefits Integrate your lead collection with your lead follow up for greater efficiency. Eliminate time wasted on double entry data. Improve lead conversion by automatically assigning them to the right people. [...]
This post originally appeared on Jill Konrath’s website and is republished here with permission. There's no way around it. Email has to be a core part of your prospecting strategy. Decision makers rarely answer the phone and seldom get back to you when you leave a message. But with the overwhelming amount of information flooding [...]
What separates the successful people from everybody else? Is it “Habits.” I like to call them “Rituals.” What are your rituals—Physical? Emotional? Intellectual? Spiritual? If you are physically fit, you would have the ritual (habit) of working out and eating well. Emotionally angry people tend to get angry. What energy do you find yourself practicing [...]
It actually has to do with aligning your sales process with your customer’s buying process. Have you ever caught yourself in a routine? I recently realized that my day-to-day activities are far more dictated by habits and routines than even I realized. Last month I was at the rec. center for my daily swim session. [...]
A perfectly acceptable question, we live in a multi-screen world. I remember when I was a young kid we had one TV in our family room that we all could watch TV, VHS tapes and then we had the computer to play video games and do homework. But times have changed…a lot. The other day [...]
This post originally appeared on Jill Konrath’s website and is republished here with permission. Have you ever heard the phrase "detach from the outcome"? It’s a tenet of Eastern religions. For many years it was a concept that I found totally unfathomable. After all, sales itself is about outcomes. Our income is at risk. We [...]
In the world of sales, there are few things that are a greater sin than letting good leads slip through the cracks. If you are like many companies out there, you spend too much money on marketing and perhaps have too few leads to have the luxury of wasting them. Unfortunately, that is exactly what [...]
When it comes to setting goals, sometimes it's best to go big or go home! Historically, some of the most famously successful goals have been “Big Hairy Audacious Goals” (BHAGs). This term was coined by James Collins and Jerry Porras in their 1994 book, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. A Big Hairy Audacious [...]
In his influential book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey outlined the difference between principles and values. In Covey’s view, principles are rules or laws that are permanent, unchanging, and universal in nature. Values are internal and subjective, and they may change over time. What are principles? For Covey, principles are [...]
Here's a simple statistic: 100% of companies have “a culture.” Whether you deliberately cultivated it, or it simply emerged and evolved on its own, your company has a culture. But what is company culture? Culture has huge implications for any organization, and it can ultimately make or break your business. However, many companies don't examine, evaluate, [...]
Let’s face it: not every boss out there is perfect at delegating. Not every boss is perfect at communicating. Sometimes your manager will make suggestions or request actions that don’t make a whole lot of sense or don’t seem to fit into your current priorities. There may be times when you are buried and your [...]
