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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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Plan-demic: Everyone’s Got a Plan Till They Get Punched in the Mouth

CategoryMotivationPosted onApril 8, 2020April 9, 2020Leave a comment

We’ve just been punched in the mouth and evidenced by feckless leadership, at least here in the US, there wasn’t much of a plan for read more

CategoriesMotivation, PlanningTagsB2B, C-19, Coronavirus, COVID19, employment, Failure, pandemic, plandemic, sales, salesplan, unemployment, working from home

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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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The Number 1 Reason Why Salespeople Fail

CategoryMentalityPosted onJanuary 24, 2019February 1, 2020Leave a comment

Failure in sales is common. People get bounced out of jobs and the industry all the time. Sometimes for just cause while others, because they read more

CategoriesMentality, MotivationTagsactively listening, communication, failing, Failure, Listening, sales, salespeople

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What to Do When You Get Fired From a Sales Job

CategoryMentalityPosted onDecember 27, 2018February 1, 20206 Comments

The day you get fired feels like your world’s about to collapse. It’s fire and brimstone, hell and fury, banishment – the works.   You read more

CategoriesMentality, Motivation, Well-beingTagsbinge watch, employment, fight, Fired, goal, interview, interviewing, quota, recovery, sales, unemployment

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Why Combining Time-Blocking With Cold-Calling Is the Key to Crushing Your Sales Goals

CategoryInsightsPosted onDecember 5, 2018February 1, 2020Leave a comment

Man, you could hear a pin drop. It was 11 A.M. in the middle of the week. I was all gussied up and walking across read more

CategoriesInsights, Mentality, Motivation, PlanningTagsB2B, call time, Cold Calling, Quaker, Quaker meeting, sales, Silent Meeting, Time block, Time blocking

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Challenges: From Making Art to Closing Fortune 500 Deals

CategoryMentalityPosted onSeptember 28, 2018December 18, 2019Leave a comment

“When you pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too” – Denzel  It must’ve been around 2004 or 2005. My brother and I were having read more

CategoriesMentality, Motivation, Well-beingTags100% commission, average, banking, challenges, mortgages, sales

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How Do You Work Here and Not Speak the Language?

CategoryMotivationPosted onAugust 9, 2018December 9, 20182 Comments

I moved to the home of the brave and the land of the free as a skinny snot-nosed eight year old whose English vocabulary consisted read more

CategoriesMotivationTagsaccents, B2B, communication, corporatese, Fortune 500, language, sales

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What’s The Stickiness Factor and Why Do All Salespeople Need to Know?

CategoryMotivationPosted onAugust 2, 2018August 7, 2018Leave a comment

One of the best ways to stand out from other salespeople is by adopting The Stickiness Factor. Malcom Gladwell addresses it in The Tipping Point. read more

CategoriesMotivationTagsB2B, clients, Creating stickiness, malcom gladwell, Mindest, priority, sales, tipping point

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Why Your Occupation Should Define You

CategoryMotivationPosted onJuly 12, 2018December 18, 2019Leave a comment

“Everybody’s happiest when they’re doing what they want to be doing” – Gary Vaynerchuk How many times have you heard someone say my occupation doesn’t read more

CategoriesMotivation, Well-beingTagscareer, define, Dream, Fortune 500, gig, job, occupation, sales, salesperson

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