9 Bad Sales Habits (& How to Break Them In 2024), According to Sales Leaders
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Nobody’s perfect. Some of us miss trash day and have our apartments smell like swamp water for the rest of the week. Some of us forget our anniversaries and have to scramble to CVS to pick up those mediocre chocolates in heart-shaped boxes the day after (that do exactly nothing to remedy the situation) … and some of us work in sales and fall back on bad habits that undermine our credibility with prospects and undercut our broader productivity.
Lack of perfection is a fact of life — but if you fall into the last bucket I mentioned, that “lack of perfection” can be particularly detrimental. Luckily, a lot of those bad sales habits are easy to identify and straightforward to address with the right guidance.