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People ask me how I put up with traveling so much. (I I recently went over the 3 million mile mark, and even during a slow year I will still log 100,000 actual air miles.) My response is travel has never been easier, despite all of the hassles of full planes, security lines, bad weather […]. MORE
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Here’s how to land and expand outside the box. “I’ve I’ve been waiting my whole life to say this.”. That was the subject line of an email I received from my daughter. She explained that my granddaughter, age six and in kindergarten, wanted to wear high-heeled play shoes to school. MORE
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Here’s how to land and expand outside the box. “I’ve I’ve been waiting my whole life to say this.”. That was the subject line of an email I received from my daughter. She explained that my granddaughter, age six and in kindergarten, wanted to wear high-heeled play shoes to school.
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A LinkedIn post by Tibor Shanto entitled Brother Can You Spare a Sale made a connection with me regarding all the unsolicited requests I receive to submit articles for this blog. These complete strangers want me to spare a posting so they can get their marketing message out. Really? People buy from people they know and trust. This is the first sales buying rule my father taught me years ago. Why would I allow my prime marketing real estate to be given to a complete stranger? .
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People ask me how I put up with traveling so much. (I I recently went over the 3 million mile mark, and even during a slow year I will still log 100,000 actual air miles.) My response is travel has never been easier, despite all of the hassles of full planes, security lines, bad weather […].
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A client and I were chatting over steamy hot chocolate and scones (yes, I have the best meetings) when suddenly this Director of Demand Generation turned very serious. I could see her body tense as she asked, “So, how can we get to the C-suite?
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No More Cold Calling
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Prospects need more insights, not more information. The love affair began when I put a soft, Italian leather wallet in his hand. It was a done deal. I made the sale. This was decades ago, when I owned a luggage and gift store. My customers had countless choices for suitcases.
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Is it just me or has gratitude become a less traveled street than in years gone by? What happened to personal thank you cards or even small gifts to acknowledge the work efforts of others? Have we become so conditioned to he or she “is getting paid to do” whatever that we have forgotten this simple, human gesture of gratitude? The reason for this question is because of some recent interactions with a local health care facility and its staff.
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At the end of every episode of our bi-weekly SalesChat series, we like to ask our experts for their power tip to start the day and set themselves up for success. This slideshare is a collection of those great tips. Enjoy!
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One of my most favorite people, Michael Sleppin (who is now retired) saw strangers as a sales prospecting opportunity. Michael would talk to anyone and by being so open he made incredible contacts. Yet we as children are conditioned not to talk to strangers. To overcome this negative yet protective childhood conditioning requires us to leave our comfort zones and to accept that our FEAR of talking to strangers is F alse E vidence A ppearing R eal.
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Who are you spending your time with? More importantly, are those you’re spending time with helping you become a better person? Every week as my schedule allows, I spend 30 minutes to an hour talking with Gerhard Gschwandtner. If you’ve been in sales for any period of time, you’ll know him as the founder […]. Blog leadership Professional Selling Skills executive sales leader briefing leader sales leader sales leadership
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In an MIT Review post , Liesl Yearsley a serial entrepreneur who has developed AI bots, shares her first hand experience of how we are susceptible to influences by Artificial Intelligence.
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In my first sales job, I had a very tough product to sell: advertising for the worst TV station in our market. In order to earn our customers and deliver actual value for them, we had to hustle in a major way and get mega creative. Media buyers didn’t readily see the upside of placing ads on a weak station–in the same market, there were 3 other stations with triple or quadruple our ratings in most time slots.
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