Monthly Archives: February 2009

Effective Planning…part 1

“Fail to plan, plan to fail” – unknown military man
A confession: I am a planner. I love making lists, crossing items off the lists, I have 3 calendars I juggle at all times – 2 of which are the old-school pen and paper type.  Planning makes me happy J.
There are many of you who share [...]

Cool tools to check out!

“You can’t expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday’s tools and expect to be in business tomorrow.” - Unknown
Communicate with your customer – everyone loves to receive correspondence.
1.       www.sendoutcards.com
 This is a pretty slick little application.  You pick a card, customize the message and then provide your address and your recipient’s address to the [...]

Are Social Networking sites helping or hurting you?

“I’m advising my clients not to be deceived by the sense of anonymity.” – Robin Bond
 In case you haven’t heard….the Facebook revolution arrived quite some time ago – but it isn’t slowing down in terms of new users joining every day.
I joined Facebook last summer after much reluctance, due to the opinion that it was [...]

An important reminder

“Be nice to people on your way up, because you will meet them on your way down.”
– Jimmy Durante
We have all heard the usual cliché about how it is important to “be nice in business, because it will come back to burn you if you do not.”  A reminder never hurts.
Why? Because you never [...]

Teamwork…the voice of reason

It takes a great man to be a good listener – Calvin Coolidge
Simply put…
Rookies – keep your mouths shut –listen to the veterans – they have experience you don’t and you will learn something.
Veterans – keep your mouths shut – listen to rookies – they will give you a fresh perspective you don’t have and [...]

Stop annoying your customer - start selling.

“Are we there yet?”  - Any child in a car for more than 30 minutes
Questions, questions, questions…as a sales person – we must ask questions.
But are your questions annoying your client?  If you have an ounce of intuition – you know when your prospect has reached critical mass on the number of questions they are [...]

Need some motivation?

“We’re here to pump you up!” Hans and Franz
We have all been there.
Sitting at our desk, staring at the screen – wishing we were any place else but at work.
Perhaps it is because we turned it up a little too loud at the pub the night before, maybe we have a new baby at home [...]

Why can’t we all play nicely?

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.  ~John Donne
Sales & Marketing – sales & operations – sales & the world….Across every organization there are departments that struggle to work together…why is this? 
Let’s take an honest look:
The marketing department feels that the sales team does not [...]



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