Are you struggling to meet your sales targets, and feeling the pressure that creates?
Do you feel like you’re not reaching your full potential, and are frustrated by your lack of success?
As a sales mentor, Blackmask can help you achieve your sales goals and unlock your full potential as a salesperson. With my guidance and expertise, you’ll learn how to identify and overcome common sales obstacles, build strong relationships with customers, and close deals with confidence.
I’ll provide you with personalized coaching, support, and accountability to help you stay on track and achieve success in your sales career.
Whether you’re just starting out or looking to take your sales skills to the next level, I’m here to help you reach your goals and become the best salesperson you can be. So, if you’re ready to transform your sales career and become a sales jedi, you know what you have to do next!
Sales Mentoring
Extensive Experience
Current Mission
In June 2022 Blackmask completed a 6 and a-half year mission as a Growth Adviser with Elevator and the Business Gateway and has now stepped back from full-time roles. Blackmask will however continue to deliver Sales Masterclasses for Elevator, and take on a small number of selected projects, the intention being to reduce workload and adjust the focus on work/life balance.
Let’s face facts, if your struggling to get sales, and you don’t know what to do about it, you’re business can be a pretty scary place!
Sometimes you just need a little help to identify the little things that can make a big difference and get you back on track.
BLACKMASK sets about things differently from others who might offer strategic support, not so interested in the high-level stuff that costs a fortune and can be really difficult to implement, but much more interested in the basic nitty gritty stuff which with Sales Mentoring is easily achievable and much more affordable.
We can then get pumped up with a big slice of creative thinking and the pulling together of a structured plan which will help improve sales and achieve your business objectives.
You’ll be amazed at what can be done with a little bit of direction and some targeted Sales Mentoring, so if you feel you are ready to shake things up a bit, then maybe BLACKMASK can help you too, and just remember, if nothing changes, nothing changes!
The next move is down to you.
Click here to enrol in the Jedi Sales Academy
And what’s the story behind the logo?
It was 1989, over the preceding 13 years or so I’d already built what I regarded as a successful sales career, this was when I met my sales Guru for the first time.
It was an epiphany moment for me, the time I first learned about the Structured Sales Process and the time I realised how little I actually knew about selling!
I learned from my Guru the importance of knowing ‘The Structured Sales Process’ and embedding it in my business. It was at times very difficult as I had to unlearn bad habits and learn the new ones which would enable me to take control of my own destiny.
I have always been a fan of the Star Wars saga and from the very start saw parallels in the relationship between the Jedi Master and his student, and in the relationship between myself and my mentor. Since becoming involved in Sales Mentoring myself, I have enjoyed making use of Jedi symbology and philosophies to help make important points and to add a salient if lighter touch to proceedings.
The Blackmask logo, the larger of these examples, was inspired by the other Jedi symbols shown here, I’m sure many die-hard Star Wars fans will recognise them at a glance, but for the less well-informed they represent The Rebel Alliance, Rebels Pheonix, Galactic Empire and The Old Galactic Republic, I hope it makes some kind of sense now.
May the Force be with you.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…
BLACKMASK set up in 2006 to provide Sales Mentoring support aimed at businesses who were light on sales expertise, but big on plans for success.
Many new start businesses find that their experience to date may not have been particularly sales focused, and this can pose a real problem if they want to sell things!
BLACKMASK knows how to sell things and can show others how to do it too.
The really weird thing is that many businesses don’t appreciate the need to have a sales process, and instead will open for business in the hope that others will understand what it is they do with the expectation that the phone will ring with an order, the trouble is this approach doesn’t really work very well!
However, embed a bit of sales process in your business and things can be very different! With a sales process in place you’ll be able to understand the relationship between the application of effort and results that might bring.
It’s often much easier than you’d think to make a meaningful change, but remember, if nothing changes, nothing changes.
The making of a Mentor
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The Structured Sales Process
At the heart of our training programme sits 'The Structured Sales Process', a learned skill which can optimise the potential of any sales person. Founded on the solid principles of discipline and process it supports the sales practitioner through the intricate steps...
The Trojan Horse
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The Jedi Fairy Tale
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Resist The Dark Side
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The Jedi Sales Code
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Motivate your salesforce
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Inspire your sales leadership
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The Believe System
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