If you are a sales person or a business owner in charge of selling your product or service, having effective sales meetings is your life blood. Especially during a tough economy like we currently have, the success of your business is contingent upon making the most out of your...
A couple of weeks ago, I woke up on Friday morning looking forward to a nice three-day weekend. I had the day off, and right before I went to head to the gym for a good morning workout, I stopped to check my e-mail. When I turned on my...
As a salesperson, I’m sure you’ve been in the situation of being in front of a great prospect or customer, about to make a big sale, and everything seems to be going well, and then – boom, the customer throws out the dreaded objection. You scramble in your mind...
I recently received an e-mail from a client of mine. She had e-mailed me telling me that she wanted to take a break for awhile. My first response was to respond to her e-mail. Then I thought about it, and I decided that I should call...
I was reading an article written by Warren Buffett about investing yesterday and he mentioned a local bank that went out of business recently. The vacant building was taken over by a new restaurant. The new owner quickly put a sign in the front window that reads, "Put your...
Do you find yourself wasting more and more time on e-mail? While e-mail is a great tool to communicate, it can also be a huge time waster! You can easily waste hours of time a day reading and responding to unnecessary e-mails. If you are interested in becoming more...
Have you ever noticed that when you focus your mind on what you don’t want, you almost always attract exactly what you are trying not to? Since most of us are visual people, the only way to focus on what we don’t want is to actually picture what...
If you’ve been paying attention to the news lately, the world is about to end! Apparently we are spiraling towards an unavoidable massive depression, the housing market and credit crisis are spiraling out of control, and all hope has been lost in America! It seems the “gloom...
Have you ever wondered how much control you really have? If you are like most people, you spend a lot of your time focusing on things you cannot control, and neglecting the things that you can control. Usually, we try to control things out of fear. Here's how to...
I was talking to a friend of mine the other day who is a professional sales person. She was telling me about how annoyed she’s become with her sales manager, and how he’s micromanaging the sales team. She told me about how they are now required to...