Gary Schwartz

Time to Retool Your MPS Pitch

I just took a quick random sampling of dealer websites.  Eight out of the ten sites I looked at were making a variation of the following claim, “We can reduce your output spend by 30-40 percent.” No doubt these are the same folks who are complaining that their sales reps only
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Jack of All Trades: The Selling Manager Dilemma

Successful dealers are always looking to grow, nothing new there.  The question is what structure should be put in place to best achieve the desired growth?  If money wasn’t an issue and we had unlimited opportunity, it would be easy to plug and play entire sales teams with the
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Copier Sales is Just Like Baseball

One of the beautiful things about the game of baseball is the fact that stats are kept on EVERYTHING.  Think about it, how often has the casual fan heard an announcer in the World Series say, “He leads the American League in two out RBIs after the seventh inning in games since
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Making Sense from Your Sales Training Dollars

Sales organizations, almost universally, believe that sales training is a critical lever in driving sales performance and yet so few organizations have devised an effective training continuum.  Logic would indicate that if you 1) believe that something is critical to your success
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January News Bytes

Following are the big and small news stories for the month of January. DocuWare ISO-9001 Certified for Third Time  Jan. 31, 2013 – DocuWare has once again proven its compliance with all requirements of the international standard DIN EN ISO 9001:2008. The German Quality
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The Importance of Territory Design

Whether you are looking at rep or manager performance, market share, shifts in customer dynamics, customer retention and several other relevant business measures, a strong linkage can be drawn to territory design. The methodology used to design territories is paramount to success
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