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Creating and Keeping Positive or Negative Momentum

Sometimes momentum is positive, helping you to climb to greater heights and produce greater and greater results. But ...
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Unlearning Learned Helplessness

Some people make a conscious decision to be helpless. They try something and fail, and they wrongly conclude that they are ...

What It Means When a Salesperson Doesn’t Listen

It is a commonly accepted idea that salespeople are supposed to be exceptionally gifted speakers and presenters. They are ...

What Are You Unlearning?

The world is changing at an exponentially faster pace. To keep up, you have to continue learning and continue developing ...

The Ghosts of Quarters Past

Today’s results aren’t the result of work that was done today, except for the short term work you focused on today. Today’s ...
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Stop Focusing on the Score and Play the Game

The scoreboard tells the tale. At the end of the game, the final score informs you of how you did. Did you make the number? ...

Who Matters Most

There are very few days when I have been unable to write. There were thirteen days in Tibet last year when I thought it ...

Don’t Think Transactional, Think Long Term (A Note to Entrepreneurs)

Managers and entrepreneurs sometime struggle when first acquiring and serving major clients. This is especially true when ...

Making Enemies and Alienating People through Social Media

I like social media. I spend some time out here, and I have developed some nice relationships. Some of those relationships ...
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Growing Pains and Sales’ Responsibilities

The Sales Blog Mailbag is a never-ending source of excellent—and difficult—questions. I could email the writer directly, but ...

You Don’t Have An Hour and Half to Present

The conference room may have been reserved for an hour and a half. You may have been put on the schedule for an hour and a ...

Your Social Media Network and Relationships Network aren’t alike

Your social media network isn’t your real network. Your real network is much smaller and much more valuable than your social ...

On Price, Cost, Value Creation, and the Insanely Jealous

Yesterday Chris Brogan, the social media giant, announced that he was offering a two-hour training class on how to use ...
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Are You Prepared to Not Present?

On two separate occasions in as many weeks, I have seen prospective dream clients request or require that the salespeople ...

Investment First, Results Second (A Note to Sales Leaders)

There is a never-ending demand to increase revenue, to increase profitability, and to grow the business. These outcomes are ...

Relationships May Not Be Same As You assume. You Still Have to Sell.

All things being equal, relationships win. All things being unequal, relationships still win. But this doesn’t mean that a ...

Answering Questions About What Makes an Order-Taker and Dead Elephants

Yesterday’s post identifying five things that make a person with a sales title and sales responsibilities an order-taker ...

Five Signs That You Are an Order-Taker

Order-taker is a derogatory term used to describe a person who has a sales title and job description but does no actual ...

Should I Follow My Sales Trainer’s Advice?

This is from another email to The Sales Blog Mailbag. The question is: “Should I follow my sales trainer’s advice and leave ...

Guess What Will Create the Value to Get You In?

I received a thoughtful email on the post Grasping at Straws (Why You Can’t Get In). In part, the sender wanted to know how ...

8 Steps to Building a Model Sales Week

Putting together a model sales week requires that you know your priorities, you get the priorities in the right order, and ...
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