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Gil Cargill

Gil Cargill is dedicated to helping business-to-business sales forces pinpoint problems in their infrastructure, implementing effective action plans that provide long-term solutions for both management and salesperson.

Sales Processes and Productivity
Do the Math
September 24th, 2020 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
New post from Gil Cargill..check it out There are many numbers, or metrics, that need to be monitored in order to optimize the results of your selling efforts.  Most sales professionals spend much of their time trying to generate leads or, in other words, they’re trying to fill their - Read More
 
How WAS Next Quarter?
May 22nd, 2019 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
No, I am not using bad grammar. I worded the title of this article deliberately to emphasize that most sales managers can’t predict the future results of their team’s current efforts because very few managers have documented, defined, and metrically managed processes in place. Without metrics, it’s - Read More
 
How WAS Next Quarter?
May 6th, 2019 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
New post from Gil Cargill..check it out No, I am not using bad grammar.  I worded the title to this article deliberately, because I wanted to emphasize the fact that most sales managers can’t predict the future results of their team’s current efforts due to the fact that very few - Read More
 
The Catch-22 of Recurring Revenue
April 5th, 2019 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
One of the significant contributors to revenue plateauing in companies that deal with their customers in a recurring transaction mode is this catch-22: once a salesperson has a portfolio or a book of customers that he/she is serving, they can frequently become so busy taking care of those existing - Read More
 
The Catch-22 of Recurring Revenue
April 3rd, 2019 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
New post from Gil Cargill..check it out One of the significant contributors to revenue plateauing in companies that deal with their customers in a recurring transaction mode is this catch-22. Specifically, once a salesperson has a portfolio or a book of customers that he/she is serving, they can - Read More
 
You’re Not That Different
September 11th, 2018 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
New post from Gil Cargill..check it out Over the course of the past forty years, I’ve worked with thousands of business owners, CEOs and/or high-level executives to facilitate the implementation of new, more effective and profitable selling processes.  Many of them, probably ranging into - Read More
 
Let’s Get Emotional
August 29th, 2018 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
New post from Gil Cargill..check it out No, not that kind of emotion; but the emotion that exists when you ask a prospect to change his/her vendors, products and/or business processes.  You see, although the topic is frequently glossed over, I believe that natural human emotion is an - Read More
 
Are You Training the Wrong People???
August 27th, 2018 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
New post from Gil Cargill..check it out In forty years of conducting professional sales training, I’ve learned that frequently the problem with a company’s ability to produce profitable revenue does not rest in the hands of the salespeople.  Rather, the suppression of sales, albeit - Read More
 
Do You Employ a Sales Saboteur?
August 23rd, 2018 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
New post from Gil Cargill..check it out Many entrepreneurial organizations that rely on a sales team have fallen prey to a phenomenon that I’ve observed over the years – specifically, the sales saboteur.  This person is a sales professional who, for a variety of reasons, believes - Read More
 
If They’re Not Talking, You’re Not Selling
August 1st, 2018 | Gil Cargill | Sales Processes and Productivity
New post from Gil Cargill..check it out It’s an old axiom in sales that the best salespeople listen better than they talk.  I’ve noticed that some salespeople confuse the ability to recite volumes and volumes of information regarding their product and service as selling.  In - Read More
 

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