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I prefer to spend my time writing about sales, marketing, and management for this blog. It's ground zero for my professional interests.

But today I need to write about blogging. To be specific, I want to write about one blogger who apparently continues to steal others' material in a most brazen manner Read More

As a manager, how do you communicate with your team? Do you have a systematized, reliable process for sharing both large and small segments of information with your employees? Or do you rely on the default communication structure in any organization Read More

The law of supply and demand is one of those things we sales types ignore at our peril. Think about it in terms of finding vs. capturing vs. creating demand and how you get paid for each. Read More

Is the debate on sales being art or science limited by the fact that science has little similarity to sales. A better comparison would be music or another art form, where you can look at the classics vs. the modern, and the constant back and forth between the two Read More

Quick Thought for the week of 6/13/10. Prepare!!! We all need to wing it now and again, but thorough preparation is an amazingly powerful credibility builder Read More

Good call planning includes researching your dream client, their present situation, and any information that may inform your call. It doesn’t mean that you have to know everything in order to feel confident in calling; If you are a value-creator, they will be happy to teach you what you need to know to win their business. You might be surprised by how different their needs are from what you imagined Read More

While ego and expertise are important in sales, they can also get in the way. The challenge for many is they let pride get In the way of engagement. Rather than asking for and about the obvious, they make assumptions and fail to ask questions that could lead to success Read More

To get into the proper mindset, re-read the title of this post in the most weepy, whiney tone you can imagine. Got that annoying eeeesssssshhhhhh feeling? Good. Because that’s the feeling I invariably get from sales managers and reps when discussing E-Rep for the first time Read More

Sales 2.0 is a set of important tools, tactics, and strategies. But these tools do nothing to help a salesperson or a sales organization that isn’t already well-equipped with the skills and attributes that make up Sales 1.0 Read More

I was an early follower of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) productivity philosophy. It immediately synced with my observations of what makes sales people productive. Allen’s techniques in personal productivity are most effective with busy people. Sales is a numbers game. Processing high volumes of opportunities–efficiently–makes GTD a bulls eye strategy for sales Read More