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Category: Mentality

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The 411 on 2020, Cold Baloney and the Color Yellow

CategoryMentalityPosted onOctober 24, 2020October 24, 2020Leave a comment

Throughout my sales career, I’ve gone from hot shit to cold baloney and everything in between. Each of these incarnations have been life lessons sandwiched read more

CategoriesMentality, Well-beingTags2020, 411, Change, COVID, Dyslexia, Pivot, sales, Yellow

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R.E.S.P.E.C.T: Find Out What It Means to You

CategoryInsightsPosted onSeptember 22, 2020Leave a comment

You may have noticed a shift. As political pageantry and divisiveness fester, one thing remains clear. Respect has left officially the building.   Disrespect and read more

CategoriesInsights, MentalityTags2020, B2B, B2C, COVID, respect, sales, SMB, SME

Selling While Black and Head Games

Selling While Black

CategoryMentalityPosted onJune 7, 2020June 7, 2020Leave a comment

I wrote this piece for Medium in 2018 and updated it for Saleslane. Over Christmas break last year, I spent a lot of time testing read more

CategoriesMentality, Well-beingTagsAfrican American, black, black lives matter, BLM, calendar, Calendly, Corporate America, CTSD, enterprise sales, PTSD, race, racial, racism, sales, selling

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How to Switch Into 100% Commission Sales When You’ve Lost Your Job to Big Rona

CategoryMentalityPosted onMay 8, 2020Leave a comment

Now that we’ve all been shook from The Big Rona, truth and consequence emerge from the rubble. Everyone’s taken a hit. And for those fired, read more

CategoriesMentality, MotivationTags100%, accountability, B2B, commission, Coronavirus, COVID-19, job market, Linkedin, Rona, sales, sales enablement, unemployed

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Why Being an Alcoholic and Working From Home Can Kill You

CategoryMentalityPosted onFebruary 18, 2020March 6, 2020Leave a comment

6:30AM: Alarm 6:30AM – 6:45AM: Morning shakes from lack of alcohol, high anxiety and amygdala in a tizzy. 6:45AM – 6:50AM: Pace around the apartment read more

CategoriesMentality, Well-beingTags12 step program, alcohol, alcoholism, B2B, meetingss, rehab, sales, sober, sobriety, tequila, working from home

Walking the pier after getting no in the sales lane

Why You Should Learn to Take No for an Answer

CategoryMentalityPosted onJanuary 16, 2020January 20, 2020Leave a comment

Why does hearing the word no scare us so much? Salespeople tiptoe around it constantly. We avoid it like the plague and it prevents us read more

CategoriesMentality, Well-beingTagsaggressive, B2B, career, job, pushy, sales, take no for an answer, Wall Street

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Why Would You Read a Sales Blog From Someone Who Feels Like the L Word?

CategoryMentalityPosted onDecember 29, 2019February 1, 2020Leave a comment

What a loser! I had an abysmal Q4/ possibly one of the worst of my careers from a revenue standpoint. I came in last by read more

CategoriesMentality, Well-beingTags2020, B2B, blog, Enterprise, goals, grateful, loser, mentality, sales, the L Word

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Lead Generation: Why All Salespeople Should Own It

CategoryMentalityPosted onMay 2, 2019February 1, 2020Leave a comment

How many times have you heard fellow salespeople exclaim: Man, these leads suck! Who the hell’s in charge of lead generation?   Sales folks complain read more

CategoriesMentality, Motivation, PlanningTagscold-call, cold-email, competitors, database, demand generation, Enterprise, lead generation, leads, marketing, prospecting, sales, salespeople

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Gratefulness + Attitude: How Gratitude Makes Salespeople Better People

CategoryMentalityPosted onApril 18, 2019February 1, 2020Leave a comment

Being told to keep a positive attitude comes off as a lazy platitude. After all, anyone who’s ever been in a slump will attest the read more

CategoriesMentality, Well-beingTagsactivity, altitude, attitude, KPI's, mental, motivation, negativity, positive attitude, practice gratitude, sales, thankful

Fear of cold calling from phonaphobic man in the Sales lane

Fear of Cold-Calling: Dialed Diagnosis for Phonaphobic Salespeople

CategoryMentalityPosted onMarch 7, 2019February 1, 2020Leave a comment

The fear of cold-calling has its claws deep under the skin of salespeople globally. Phone anxiety, the yips and cold-call reluctance are debilitating. For someone read more

CategoriesMentalityTagsCold Calling, cold-call, fear, phonaphobic, phone, phone anxiety, phone fright, phone phobia, sales, santa, Telephonophobic

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