Sales Training Tactics

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From Sales Lump to Sales Diamond

“Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.” B.C. Forbes (1880–1954) Scottish journalist and founder of Forbes Magazine There are only three ways to become a diamond in your career. If you are a professional salesperson, the formula is easy: 1. Become smarter and more skilled than the average rep 2. Make [...]

How to Value a Friendship

“No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other’s worth. -Robert Southey Do you look at your customers as friends? And do they see you as a friend? And what is your definition of friend? Well, the dictionary describes a friend as a [...]

Team Building

Team building (skill building) programs improve the way your team members interact and solve problems and overall leads to better efficiency. The results? Higher and improved morale and productivity. Team building helps to also decrease stress, turnover and operating costs. A happier team means an effective team. An effective team is more creative and more [...]

Staying Young in Business

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.  ~Douglas MacArthur Recently during one of my seminars I had a rookie salesperson tell me that he was told by his manager and [...]