The Blog for the Ag Sales Professional

An Agriculture blog dedicated to selling in agribusiness.  These Ag blog articles focus on the best practices for selling to farmers and livestock producers.  We also focus on those salespeople who call on Ag buyers at the thousands of agribusinesses that serve the farming community

Stop price resistance and get paid more   “Stop Price Resistance and Get Paid More”.  It sounds like a dream, doesn’t it?  No more price complaints AND you get paid more from your customers.  It can happen, but it looks a lot different than you think.  It’s no surprise that grain and livestock producers are […]

Practical Steps to manage your fears when selling   Jody was calling me from the prospect’s parking lot.  A bit nervous to make her first call on a prospect alone, she phoned to “just talk” for a few minutes. It didn’t take long to realize the anxiety around this call had been building with Jody […]

Data Tells but a Story Sells Which do you remember more, your 6th grade American History class or the historical scenes from Forrest Gump?  For most of us, 6th grade was so long ago, we can’t even remember the teachers name, let alone what she said.  Why?  We think it is because it was boring.  […]

What to do when your customer is super busy – Planting & Harvest Strategies for the Ag Sales Professional As Dave and I pulled onto the farm, we could see all the hustle and bustle going on.  The weather broke, the planting window was open and this producer was in a full panic to get […]

How can Reality TV help you be a better Ag Sales Professional? Twenty-one years ago, I was running hills on a training run to get ready for my 7th marathon.  As I did, something snapped in my ankle and suddenly I was in extreme pain and couldn’t put weight on it.  No, it wasn’t my […]

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The Ag economy is in tough shape for producers and Agribusiness!  What to do? Rethink Upselling! A word of warning about this article.  Please read it entirely before passing judgment on what I am proposing.  The reason I say that is because it challenges a long-standing belief that we should continuously upsell customers.  I am […]

We’re “Fixin” to get busy in the farming and agribusiness world.  Many parts of our industry are busy all the time, but late March through mid-June is an extra busy time.  On the farm, ground needs to be worked, fertilizer spread and crops planted.  In our Agribusinesses, we prepare for this rush of activity and […]

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