February 08, 2023
My pain is your win, and your sales (and maybe your dating technique) is about to get a heck of a lot smoother, faster, and better. It’s story time.
February 01, 2023
Sales is love and love is sales. Many of us have had loves, heartbreaks. We have had deals fall through, perfect prospects pass us by, and missed deals of a lifetime. When we start learning where to look and how to handle rejection, something magical happens.
January 04, 2023
New Year’s resolutions operate under the guise that with the turn of an arbitrary date, new powers enter the world that will change our nature. Humans, however, are not creatures of change.
December 28, 2022
All this month, I’ve described unexpected intersections between poetry and sales. But I haven’t written a sales poem…until today.
December 21, 2022
I’ll have a side of nostalgia with that Happy Meal, please.
December 14, 2022
Borrowing from 1920s Paris, this how-to offers a playful, collaborative, creative-writing icebreaker game.
December 07, 2022
So much depends on listening to a grasshopper, in the rain, while sitting in a red wheelbarrow. Just trust us.
November 30, 2022
Consulting firms expect their professionals to become trusted advisors by way of their functional expertise. Why are so many uncomfortable with converting that into sales opportunities?
November 23, 2022
You gotta eat. Service patterns around food engage our larger feelings about what it means to feel welcomed, tempted, comforted, and nourished.
November 16, 2022
“Buy the __ (insert: socks, salad dressing, eyeglasses) and no one gets hurt.” Okay, that’s not mission selling, that’s hostage-taking. Let’s find a better way.