Sometimes It’s Just Ouch!
The market drops 250 points in one day. Your best prospect just got laid off. It just hurts sometimes.
Time to dust off, breathe deeply, and start over!
Archive for February, 2009:
Attitude
I sometimes think sales is alot like being a waiter in a restaurant.
From Wikipedia: The duties of waiting staff include preparing tables for a meal, taking customers’ orders, serving drinks and food, and cleaning up before, after and during servings in a restaurant. Depending on the restaurant, other less common duties may be required, such [...]
Feel Like a Target?
Toyota reported sales down 34% for Q408. Does that mean that all of their marketing, salespeople, channel partners, and dealers forgot how to sell?
Or that they stopped working for two or three days a week?
Or their sales process is broken?
No, I don’t think so. I think that market conditions are a [...]
One of Those Days…
I needed to get a proposal to a customer last night…
Left the office in haste at 9PM and left the proposal on my laptop safely ensconced in my drawer…at the office…
Woke up at 6AM so I could get to the office by 8AM and send the proposal to the client before they got in thereby [...]