3 Guiding Principles for Anyone in Sales

Jason Sayen smartPRENEUR Blog Series

I’ve spent 27 years in Sales selling high-end Consumer Electronics and have attended countless “sales training” and “seminars”.  While I learned a lot of tips and tricks at those events, the core of my success can be boiled down to these three principles People buy from people - Relationships matter more than most salespeople realize.   One of the most fundamental ...

Increase Retention with New Employees During Onboarding

Jason Sayen smartPRENEUR Blog Series

How to increase retention with new employees during onboarding utilizing the 4 adult learning styles? What does your onboarding process look like this? Sit in the conference room with HR and review documents  Sit with the manager to review their job description Job shadowing with a coworker in a similar role Complete an online tutorial The above process utilizes the ...

Kaizen – the pursuit for progress not perfection

Jason Sayen smartPRENEUR Blog Series

Continuous improvement is a culture and a mindset. In the organizations that I’ve worked for that embraced this mindset, we had quarterly meetings designed to discuss how we can become better at a specific goal that we set for the session.  These meetings are the polar opposite of what takes place in a quarterly sales meeting and are not a ...