Sales

What To Do When Sales Won’t Cooperate

It happens. You’ve done everything right. You invited them in. You listened. You’ve gone on sales calls, sat through demos, listened to their customers. You’ve created a qualification model that gets them qualified leads according to their definitions. You’ve worked with them to create a demand generation process that aligns with their way of doing…

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Will Fear Stop You?

I had a great conversation with a friend yesterday.  We were talking about the “what’s next” journey…  you know, that conversation where you look into the future and plan the next step of your career or life or existence or whatever.  My friend brought up the topic of fear, which is a natural and all…

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Don’t Try to Please Everyone

I was reminded of this story recently, a fable of Aesop. The moral? “If you try to please everyone, you’ll lose your ass” (OK, that’s my paraphrase of the moral, but it works). The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey A MAN and his son were once going with their Donkey to market. As they were…

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