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2020 | 2021 – S.I.M.P.L.E – Sales Is Making People’s Lives Easier

CategoryInsightsPosted onDecember 13, 2020December 24, 2020Leave a comment

It’s that time of year again. As 2020 ends, it’s time to reevaluate who we are, why we exist and where the hell we go read more

CategoriesInsights, PlanningTags2020, 2021, automation, B2B, connection, Enterprise, New Years, new years resolutions, sales, sales enablement, Sales Plan, simple

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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

The eyes of respect

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

Mentorship secrets from man living life in the sales lane

Mentorship: The Open Secret That Keeps Salespeople in the Game

CategoryInsightsPosted onJuly 1, 2020Leave a comment

Way back in 1983, Wayne Gretzky said You Miss 100% of the Shots You Don’t Take. A poignant quote that’s been postered in cubicles and read more

CategoriesInsightsTags100%, B2B, confidence, Mentor, mentorship, pottery, sales, strategy, Wayne Gretzky

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

Salesperson transitioning into 100% commission plan

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

Plandemic doc punching in the face

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

Alcoholic salesman drinking and working from home

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

Kobe Bryant and Daughter dunking

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

CategoryWell-beingPosted onFebruary 6, 2020February 8, 2020Leave a comment

I don’t have to tell you it ends. This life – shrouded in mystery, often discombobulating and chock full of surprises.   We lose people read more

CategoriesWell-beingTagsBasketball, helicopter, Kobe Bryant, Los Angeles Lakers, Love, sales

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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