The View from Above Last week I flew from Dallas to Charlotte and had the pleasure of getting a middle seat in coach. Coach is where I often sit but I try and avoid a middle seat at all costs. But on this trip,…
Use Today’s Virtual Training for Tomorrow’s Success Keeping pace with tomorrow is getting harder and harder, but it’s more important today than ever before. All of us, especially as adults, have to keep learning and growing, or the world will pass us by. The…
From Sad Salesman to Soaring Success Your Career Trajectory Can Change. Just. Like. That. I started my sales career right out of college, with Mutual of New York. I lasted 3 months, and we parted ways. I hated selling. Because naturally, I am not…
Getting Where You Want To Be About 6 weeks ago, I received a call from a sales rep from one of our clients, and he wanted my advice on how to land the real role he wanted–one that had eluded him for 17 years….
Use Your Unique Qualities for Long Term Success. I have a confession. As a sales expert, you would likely expect me to be an extrovert. Well, you’d be wrong. My confession is: I am an introvert by nature. An introverted salesperson? Weird. It’s true,…
What Successful Salespeople Have in Common In my career, I have met, trained, and even coached so many unbelievably successful salespeople. They had far more differences than similarities, but the one thing every one of them had in common is that they learned the…
Great Performers Don’t Get There On Their Own The greatest performers in almost any profession that I can think of have great coaches; the performers don’t do it alone. In an article from the Harvard Business Review, they stated, “Most sales and service organizations…
Like-Minded Professionals with Like-Minded Audiences Last week, I had the honor of spending all day with 2 of the most successful and dynamic people I have ever met. All 3 of us are launching our online virtual training programs on the best virtual training…
A Million-Dollar Lesson In 2002, I ran into a guy I used to work with many years before. As we got to talking, he asked what my new company’s revenue was. I said, “About half a million dollars.” His response shocked me. “Is that all?”…
Practicing Persistence Back in the 1980s, I learned a valuable lesson about selling. I was in the process of hiring my first salesman at the company I worked for. He wasn’t originally in the mix of candidates because I already had someone in mind,…
