For him, selling was a team sport. That sounds like he made it fun and collegial, but no. He was fond of saying that most reps had a Wizard of Oz problem: they lacked either the courage, the brain, or the heart to be successful by themselves. That’s where the process and the team came into play. Every person on each sales team had a specific role to play—making the technical sale, navigating the organization, serving as the closer—and if he did not play his role to perfection, the sale was in jeopardy. Quite rapidly, Cranney’s system began to work. In his first nine months, our sales team
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