The Blog for the Ag Sales Professional
An Agriculture blog dedicated to selling in agribusiness. These Ag blog articles focus on the best practices for selling to farmers and livestock producers. We also focus on those salespeople who call on Ag buyers at the thousands of agribusinesses that serve the farming community
On 50% of your calls, you fail to ask for the sale! That’s if you are average. Researching B2B sales statistics, there was a range of 40-60% of the salespeople who presented their products but did not ask for the sale. If you are in the B2C world like retail sales […]
The problem with most sales training! Forty-five minutes into day one and I was already regretting my choice of seats. The morning started off great, several managers and top sales people gathered to attend a first round training session for our new sales training program. Feeling proud to be a part of this group, you […]
Top lessons for every Ag Sales Professional from McDonald’s A few years ago, the movie “The Founder” came and went quickly through theatres. So fast, most of us never had a chance to see it. Flipping through Netflix recently, I had a chance to watch it and was amazed by the great sales lessons you […]
Thrown out of a feed store? Had your business card thrown back in your face? If the answer is yes, great! That means you are trying. My next question is: “When did you go back?” We’ll get to your answer in a minute. If your answer is no, not so great! My next question for […]
The Path to Success They say you arrived where you are today because of your choices. Your career, your spouse, your financial situation and happiness in life…all due to your choices. If we accept that as true and we consider the fact that we often take the path of least resistance, we have a recipe […]
A Facebook Trend for the Ag Sales Professional There’s a trend on Facebook where people post something called “Truth is…” Most of the time I don’t pay much attention, but I saw one the other day that got me thinking about sales. When kids do them on Facebook, they then fill in a laundry list […]
More people than you think! Driving down Highway 26, I was “stewing” in my emotions. By that, I mean I was angry, upset, disappointed and frustrated. All at the same time. How you ask? I just came off a bad sales call. I failed to prepare for it the way I should have and […]
One of the big challenges we face in Agribusiness is the Silo Effect that keeps our teams from reaching their full potential. Silos are those walls that we build between our internal departments. Bring in a speaker who has not only tore down a few silos but also built a few in his 25 year […]
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