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Who's the douchebag? Is this a marketing disaster?

Pardon my language, but it is about to get worse, so I might as well warn you now. If you are easily offended, don't keep reading. In fact, you may want to unsubscribe from this blog.

Hopefully you will laugh, I sure did. 

I debated whether or not...

Is it gender, race, or just you?

Is gender and race a lie we tell ourselves why we can't or shouldn't?

From grade school to high school, I was afraid of vampires. And when I say I was afraid, I mean the kind of fear that changes your behavior. For example, when I walked from my...

The 'Questions and Periods' Game for Sales Coaching

When I worked with my own personal coach years ago, I expected things to change in my professional life. But I didn't expect it in my personal life as well.

It started with a small change in the way I interacted with my hubby.

The Spock Method for Controlling Emotional Involvement in Sales

I recently got an updated sales assessment test. And even though I had gone through this process earlier in my career, had gone through intensive 1-1 executive sales coaching, I wasn't surprised to learn that I was still struggling with Emotional...

An Inbound Sales Story Inspired by the DMV

Loud Linda at the DMV

The last thing I wanted to do in the middle of a busy work week, on the second to the last week of the year, in the midst of merging 2 companies together, was go to the DMV and get my license renewed. But passport in hand, the...

Should Sales People Blog?

Yes/No? Why? And if yes, how? When? About what?

Where have you had your best conversations with peers and prospects? Is it in the conference room meeting? Likely not- sometimes I think of conference rooms as stages where everyone plays a part. It...

Is creating content in your company culture's DNA?

The effect of culture on content and why it is crucial for inbound success.

Creating content that speaks to buyers hearts and minds on a consistent basis is a bear of a job. In fact, it is too much for any one person to do alone. And that is a good...

Death to the Marketing Agency of the Past

"We are not responsible or accountable for your sales."

I cringe whenever I hear a marketing agency or "professional" say this. I recently heard it from a prospect who was frustrated with their current marketing agency who said this to them when...

Reactions to my own sales assessment test.

Can you handle a sales skill assessment test?

The single most important, critical, life blood of a business is in it's ability to sell. That is to say, it is the ability of that business to build the right relationships, that is the driving force...

How to Do Less Work But Earn More As an Entrepreneur

One man's work is another man's party.

The topic of discussion from last week's live Inbound Networker's group meeting seems like an ageless question, and one that I think is completely subjective. For some, work is those things that they have to...