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Are your sales down?

Is a CRM going to get you more sales?

While on a call with a client who wasn't seeing the results he had hoped for, the question came up, "What is the definition of failure?"

How would you answer that?

For some, it is that they won't recoup the hundreds of thousands of dollars that they...

Two things happened last week that inspired this post.

First, on my regular run down the dirt road and wooded trails by my house, I got the closest I have ever physically gotten to a deer. I was less than 20 feet away from an adolescent male. He...

When you are young, time seems endless. As we get older, we start to realize how valuable time really is.

There are plenty of psychological reasons you could infer from this simple observation, and there are many great quotes out there about time...

One of the marketing agencies I coach works exclusively with lawyers. Like many of us, he struggled with taking smaller steps with prospects. He jumped to things that the other person wasn’t ready for, or made them feel like they were about to be...

My neighbor has a very hyper-active dog. When they first began to try to take it for walks, I often wondered who was walking who. It took some time before they were able to change the dynamic of being the ones who lead the walk, and not the other...

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Last weekend I got some really bad news from someone close to me. In the past, getting this type of news would have sent me into a stressed emotional state that would have started a fight.

Others handle bad...

My grandmother founded and ran one of the first female owned real estate agencies in MA in the late 70’s early 80’s (so I am told). Every month there was a real estate association networking meeting where brokers would network and get to know each...

A few months ago, I had a conversation with Adam Zais. We were discussing the new state of sales, the empowered buyer, and inbound. Somewhere along the way Adam said, "A sales person's job is to help people buy." To which I added, "To help them buy...

Yesterday on a group sales coaching session, one marketing agency owner had a prospect who was comparing their agency against two others. Their contact was pressuring them to create a pitch, sales proposal, and answer a series of questions that had...