article thumbnail

Building an office culture without the office

Sales and Marketing Management

None of us really knows how this movie will play out if it continues like this for much longer,” KIND founder and CEO Daniel Lubetzky told The Wall Street Journal recently. An early and well-known example is the list of 10 core values that employees of online retailer Zappos helped create and that was posted online in 2006.

Journal 156
article thumbnail

Texting While Walking—Not Worth the Risk

No More Cold Calling

The Silicon Valley Business Journal headline—“Apple files ‘transparent texting’ patent to make walking while texting safer”—would have been laughable, had it not been so appalling. That number has doubled each year since 2006, according to a study by Ohio State University. Apple wants to make it safer to walk while texting.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Sales presentations: Why more ISN’T better when it comes to benefits

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Journal of Consumer Research, 30, 473-486. Harvard Business Review, March 2006. The blog post and Rapid Learning video module are based on the following research studies: Lurie, N. 2004) Decision Making in Information-Rich Environments: The Role of Information Structure. Anderson, J.C., Customer Value Propositions in Business Markets.

Benefit 59
article thumbnail

Sales Talk for CEOs: How Word of Mouth Was All We Ever Used to Attract New Business with Nancy Duarte with Nancy Duarte (S2:E20)

Alice Heiman

She created a category, built the presentation for An Inconvenient Truth (2006) with Al Gore (won an Academy Award), published a book, did a TED Talk (2010), published more books, and continued to delight customers, It worked and it drove business alright, but it was very demanding. How did she drive so much business to her company?

Scale 69
article thumbnail

‘You can’t make me!’ – How to defuse buyer reactance

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 4 (6), 703. This blog entry is adapted from the Rapid Learning module “Reactance: Why Buyers Feel Pressured and Why They Push Back,” based on the following research studies: Brehm, J. W., & Sensenig, J. Social influence as a function of attempted and implied usurpation of choice.

Buyer 59
article thumbnail

How the emotional impact of money can ruin a sale – and what to do about it

Selling Essentials RapidLearning Center

2006) The Psychological Consequences of Money. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 55, 229-233. The blog post and Rapid Learning video module are based on the following research studies: Vohs, K., Science, 314 (5802), 1154-1156. Jiang, Y., 2014) Impact of Money on Emotional Expression.

Scale 59
article thumbnail

11 Easy Morning Motivation Rituals to Kickstart Your Day

Hubspot Sales

A 2006 study showed that regular physical exercise led to increases in willpower and self-regulatory behavior. Eat a good breakfast. Optimize your alarm. Start with "Why". Remind yourself of your wins. Do something that makes you happy. Remind yourself of your goals. Make your bed. It takes grit to be in sales. Start with “why”.