Posts

Why You Should Choose a New York Business Consultant

Image
Business is the most competitive sport there is. And when the competition is tough, the bar is raised. The days of putting a sticker on a banana and calling that marketing just doesn’t exist anymore. As these standards raise, it becomes harder to compete and much easier to fail. According to a Harvard Business School study by Shikhar Ghosh, 75% of venture-backed startups fail. These are business that have been well funded, yet they still fail. In a study by Statistic Brain, the failure rate of all U.S. companies after five years was over 50%, and over 70% after 10 years. These numbers are hard to ignore and prove that business owners and executives need guidance. The million-dollar question is, where should they look for that guidance? The first place is the realization that you need a business consultant. People know they need an attorney to look over contracts and advise them with legal matters. They know they need a CPA or an accountant to advise them on tax related matt...

Top Sales Training Programs in New York

Image
There are many sales training companies throughout the country but only a few top sales training companies in New York. MindStorm has been recognized as one of New York’s top sales training companies, led by CEO George Athan, #1 International Bestselling Author of “Client Machine: The B2B System for Generating Clients” What makes MindStorm’s sales training different from many others is that our training program has been built around the core fundamentals of hypergrowth companies. See, for salespeople to become effective, it’s not just about more sales knowledge. It’s about each individual salesperson maximizing the revenue they can generate. That’s done by following specific processes that have proven to accelerate revenue the fastest.  Where most sales training programs fail is that they focus on sales techniques, rather than understanding how these tactics fit in the entire strategic puzzle. MindStorm is a hybrid, half business consulting firm, half sales training compa...

How Many Follow-ups in Sales Strategy Should You Do?

Image
In sales, the fortune is in the follow-up. There's more opportunity lost by salespeople not having a good follow up strategy than through anything else. I use the word strategy because that would assume you have a consistent protocol for following up. When it comes to prospecting, having a follow-up sales strategy consulting becomes especially important because your response rates are much lower reaching out cold to strangers. It's obvious that if you've built a relationship with a prospect, they're more likely to reply to your emails or return your phone calls than someone that you have absolutely no relationship with. To compensate for this fact, often your contact efforts may have to be more audacious in nature to grab attention and more 'touches' are required before you get a response. If you were manually following up with different names on a list, making some calls here and sending some emails there, you would probably be distributing...

Top Sales Training Programs in New York

Image
There are many sales training companies throughout the country but only a few top sales training companies in New York. MindStorm has been recognized as one of New York’s top sales training companies, led by CEO George Athan , #1 International Bestselling Author of “Client Machine: The B2B System for Generating Clients”. What makes MindStorm’s sales training different from many others is that our training program has been built around the core fundamentals of hypergrowth companies. See, for salespeople to become effective, it’s not just about more sales knowledge. It’s about each individual salesperson maximizing the revenue they can generate. That’s done by following specific processes that have proven to accelerate revenue the fastest. Where most sales training programs fail is that they focus on sales techniques, rather than understanding how these tactics fit in the entire strategic puzzle. MindStorm is a hybrid, half business consulting firm, half sales training...