The average sales person typically spends their career wondering why they haven’t gotten certain promotions, why their salary is low, why their boss does not see value in them and some other non pleasantries of the sales world. Don’t get me wrong, on the surface, these salesmen / saleswomen are nice people and are pleasant to deal with. However, that is only on the surface; you only get a glimpse of the real professional after the contract is signed. What the mediocre sales professional fails to do is to think long term; this is their indisputable number one blockade to account management success.
Instead, they are comparable to the Mike Tysons of sales and account management. They want one knockout punch; then they want the fight to be over. Well, this method worked well for Tyson until he met Buster Douglas, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Danny Williams and Kevin McBride.