Sales & Motivation

  Another Belmont Stakes has come and gone and another Triple-Crown contender has come and gone with no Triple Crown. Every June, when the Belmont Stakes rolls around, I’m reminded of perhaps the most famous horse ever and winner of the Triple-Crown back in 1973, Secretariat. If you haven’t seen the 2010 movie Secretariat, you

  Before you can sell or influence anyone, you have to make a positive connection so they like and trust you. Here are some keys to connecting with anyone.   1) When in Rome… If you’ve ever visited a non-English speaking country, you undoubtedly tried to learn a few words or brought some sort of

Not to be cliché, but in reality most of life and business success is so simple that it borders on cliché. While the saying that “90% of success is just showing up” is true, there’s a lot behind that 90%. First, most people won’t do the hard work necessary to show up where and when

We’re well more than a month into 2014. How’s it going so far? How are you doing with your New Year’s Resolutions if you made any? Are you on track to achieve your personal and professional goals this year? If you’re not on track, these ideas will get you on track and caught up. If

We all have the same amount of time in a day – 24 hours. So why do some people seem to get a week’s worth of work done in a day, while others get a day’s worth of work done in a week? More often than not, the amount of work people get done during

In a recent survey, customers said that the #1 reason they do business with a particular company is because of a relationship with someone within that company. The same survey also showed that 97% of customers did business with a particular salesperson because they liked and trusted that person. Thus, as salespeople, having a strong

One of the best ways to ensure you make more sales is to make sure you’re taking excellent care of your customers and one of the best ways to do that is to go back to the basics of GREAT customer service.  Providing great customer service ensures that your customers feel appreciated and are being

Like most other things in life, sales and success are 90% mental. Once you’ve been in your industry for a few years, you know what you need to do in order to be successful, at that point it simply comes down to doing it. The key to doing what must be done day in and

We’ve all heard how important it is to have goals, yet 97% of the population doesn’t have them. If you are part of the 97%, you may want to consider becoming part of the 3% with goals because the reality is: the 3% of the population with written goals is worth more in financial terms,

These days there seems to be more competition than ever, in addition, the competition seems to be more creative and relentless. Whether it’s the low-price ankle biters, or the large companies with huge marketing budgets, our competitors seem to be everywhere. That being said, we can still win and keep more than our share of