People are asking me if they should cancel their advertising until things get better. In a word, “No!” I say, “If you are not advertising already, now is the time to get started!”
Time to Rethink Sales “Training”
In recent weeks, I’ve found myself homebound like many other business professionals, more by choice than by circumstance because I’m trying to run my business from home and not travel all over the country like I used to do. With the Internet and modern software tools, I can work with multiple clients, thousands of miles apart in a single day.
Prospecting During a Pandemic
You have been affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. Some of your clients have already called and canceled. Perhaps your community is under some government orders or voluntary instructions that restrict your movements. What are you going to do to protect your business?
You’ve Been Fired! Four Things to Do Now!
So you’ve just been notified that your position is being eliminated. The company is going in a different direction. The company is undertaking a reduction in force. No matter what they call it, you’re out of a job. Here are four things to do right now.
Looking Ahead
As we approach the new year, I want to send you my best wishes for a prosperous 2020 and beyond. Not only do we celebrate a new year but we also celebrate the beginning of a new decade. Sometimes it seems like time is passing way too quickly. I thought this would be a good time to send you some suggestions on how to get the most out of your most valuable non-renewable resource, your time.
Four Keys to Better Pipeline Management
The sales pipeline is a useful tool for a professional advertising salesperson who wants to start making more money more quickly.
Four Keys to Improved One-on-Ones
Business today is filled with so much pressure to focus on things that are both important and urgent, things that need to be addressed right now! This hair on fire pressure forces us into reactive behavior based on what needs to be done right now, instead of focusing our energy and resources on developing a more strategic behavior based on our long-term goals. We sometimes feel as if we just move from one emergency to the next, never finding enough time to catch our breath and plan for the future.
Four Keys to Better Referrals
Before his death in 2012, Zig Ziglar was one of the world’s most popular sales trainers and motivational speakers. He was born in rural Alabama and grew up in rural Mississippi. He went from a small skinny kid with a funny name to leading a worldwide sales organization, based on his simple philosophy, “You can have anything in life you want, if you help enough other people get what they want in life, first.”
Four Keys to Self Improvement
Thanks to new technology that allows researchers to measure the brain’s responses to learning stimuli, the science of learning is advancing faster every day. We now know more about how the brain learns that at any time in human history. Despite all this new technology and research, there is one stubborn fact that troubles the teaching community, people will only learn to the level to which they are motivated to learn. In other words, it is a personal decision as to whether you are willing to learn something new.
Four Keys to Better Training
Are your salespeople getting the training they need to achieve their career goals with your company?
According to a worldwide study of over four thousand companies in seventy different countries across twenty different industries, IBM found that eight out of ten corporate leaders feel their employees do receive the training they need to achieve their career goals.
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