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Salespeople Save Lives

Look at their faces. Look at their body language. Do you think for one second they are thinking about their salaries, quotas and commissions? In my selling classes I tell business people that as salespeople they too are FIRST-RESPONDERS ... like the people who rush to an injured football player on the field ... like the [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00January 6th, 2013|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Salespeople Save Lives

The Profit, the Power and the Sheer Enjoyment of Professional Selling

It's COLD out there in the world of selling. I'm excited to be teaching HRM employers to come in from the cold and bring their salespeople with them. Come, be part of my NSCC business growth class each Wednesday evening and learn to: sell the way potential customers respond most positively find the right employers & remain loyal to them find [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00December 31st, 2012|Uncategorized|Comments Off on The Profit, the Power and the Sheer Enjoyment of Professional Selling

Suddenly YOU Have To SELL

WE ALL REACH FOR IT. Regardless of age or gender. But what if your path to the ring is through selling? You are a new small business owner, a postsecondary grad, a technical professional or a down-sized employee entering the financial services or real estate industries and suddenly you are thrust into the arena of [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00October 29th, 2012|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Suddenly YOU Have To SELL

Evolved Selling … Welcomed by buyer and seller

So much of the market’s push-back and rejection of salespeople is not of their own making. History, Hollywood, popular myth, legends and prevailing humour about selling and salespeople are inextricably woven into the fabric of our society. Unfortunately the weave is coarse and tarnished. The image, the brand of salespeople and the selling profession that [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00October 12th, 2012|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Evolved Selling … Welcomed by buyer and seller

Exceed Your Quota …The Selling Seminar Business People LOVE

EXCEED YOUR QUOTA... Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013     http://thephonelady.ca/registration EXCEED YOUR QUOTA teaches you how to get more appointments and close more sales. Mary Jane Copps (The Phone Lady) and Peter Skakum (Tangent Strategies) are going to give you the power to not only make and confirm more meetings by phone, but leave those meetings with [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00September 4th, 2012|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Exceed Your Quota …The Selling Seminar Business People LOVE

A Hunter/Prey Sport

... as quoted to me, while networking, by a male salesperson in his early thirties. “Selling is a hunter/prey sport.” A HUNTER/PREY SPORT?  You would be surprised how many business people throughout North America share this salesman's 1950's image of selling. Sellers who perpetuate selling metaphorically as a hunter/prey sport tend to be 35+ males. They will [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00August 21st, 2012|Sales|Comments Off on A Hunter/Prey Sport

March is International Hug a Salesperson Month

No one is harder on salespeople than salespeople themselves. It’s a difficult job and yet each day members of the world’s second oldest profession put themselves out there, braving the slings and arrows of a suspicious, cynical marketplace; providing humanity with product and service options and opportunities. Where would our economies be without salespeople? March [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00February 24th, 2012|Uncategorized|Comments Off on March is International Hug a Salesperson Month

Respect, Admiration and Selling

Salespeople in this twenty-first century need to sell much more than products, services, relationships, or solutions. They need to sell Respect and Admiration. Some years ago I purchased a car from Bill at Jim Gauthier Chevrolet/Oldsmobile in Winnipeg. Bill greeted me graciously as I stepped through the glass doors of the dealership that morning. He asked me a [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00December 29th, 2011|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Respect, Admiration and Selling

Pirates of Commerce

"We're adding a little something to this month's sales contest. As you know, first prize is a Cadillac Eldorado. Anybody want to see second prize? Second prize is a set of stake knives. Third prize is, you're fired." (quotation from Glengarry Glen Ross ... not 'a movie' but 'THE movie' about salesmen and selling. Blair [...]

By |2023-04-06T21:36:56+00:00December 29th, 2011|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Pirates of Commerce
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