Craig James

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Craig James

Craig James Quick Facts

Sales Solutions founder Craig James has 20 years' experience in sales and sales management, primarily in technology and software. He's helped dozens of sales people, business owners, and entrepreneurs sharpen their selling skills and close more business, faster.

Craig has been published and been quoted in publications such as Business Week, Sales and Marketing Management, Selling Power, and the New York Enterprise Report (for which he is a contributing editor), and has been interviewed by Sales Rep Radio. Craig was also a 2007 Top Sales Articles finalist for best article of the year. He has taught at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and has lectured at Columbia University’s School of Continuing Education. He’s also been a long time volunteer with the Workshop in Business Opportunities, a "boot camp" for entrepreneurs whose mission is to enable small business owners and budding entrepreneurs in under-served communities to obtain financial success in starting, operating, and building successful businesses. An accomplished speaker and presenter, Craig was active in Toastmasters International for several years, and served a term as President of his local chapter where, incidentally, he met his lovely wife Nancy.

Craig earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, and his MBA from the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. He and his aforementioned wife, Nancy, live in Westwood, MA, a suburb of Boston.

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Networking. You've heard it before - the best leads come from someone you know, or from someone who knows someone you know. So why aren't you out there doing it? Not enough time? Don't think it works? Too expensive? Think again! What is a networking event? A networking event is a meeting of ...

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Do you ever shake your head and wonder why so many prospects fail to pull the trigger when you've clearly made a compelling case for them to do so? To those of us in Sales, it makes no sense - it's clear as day that they should. But for some reason we can't fathom, it often doesn't appear to be ...

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At just about every networking event I attended this Summer, there were two complaints I never failed to hear - "no one's around in the Summer", and "the economy is in recession". To the former, I replied, "I - and everyone in this room, and rooms like this all across town - am around this ...

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Why is it, then, in our conversations, in our written correspondence, and in our presentations, we act as if the opposite is true - that a thousand words will create the picture we want? n Metaphors and analogies are two similar but different word ...

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how to prioritize potential opportunities - leads - that come your way, or that you uncover, so that you invest your time in such a way as to maximize your income. n First, let's define what a lead is. Dictionary.com defines "lead" (in the business sense) as "an indication of potential ...

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http://www.sales-solutions.biznnWhat? Am I reading this correctly? Stop selling and I'll close more business? Yes. Let me explain. I was on an initial meeting with a prospective client last week. This prospect was frustrated that several prospects of his that exhibited classic ...

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We all have people in our lives whose contact we welcome, and those whose contact we consider unwelcome. At the "welcome" end of the spectrum are our family and friends. At the "unwelcome" end of the spectrum are telemarketers and spammers. The former we're eager to interact with; the latter we detest and try our best to avoid or get rid of. Then there's everyone in between.

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Despite our best efforts, some of the deals we work on will at some pint in the sales process stall. How can you extricate yourself from the land of no-decision for those cases in which - despite your best efforts - your deals nevertheless grinds to a halt.

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Most of us detest those weekly 1-1 pipeline reviews with our managers. Why? Because more often than not, the manager is calling you on the carpet to explain why this deal hasn't closed, or why that deal hasn't progressed, or why those deals were lost. Or at least we think he is. But in a sense these meetings are good for us - they discipline us to get from our prospects the answers to the questions we know we're going to be asked. In so doing, we develop the good practice of probing - of not only knowing what is going on with our deals, but why.

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"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." I'm a map guy. I love maps. To be sure, GPS is a wonderful (if not somewhat annoying) invention that probably does a better job of getting you from point A to point B. Nevertheless, I have a hard time giving up my trusty Rand McNally which I can hold in my two hands.

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Contacting Craig James

Craig James
Sales Solutions
781-269-5690

Toll-free:877-862-8631
www.sales-solutions.biz
Twitter: @craigrjames


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