This week it’s all been about me giving back to my unemployed friends. No I don’t mean cooking them dinner and doing their laundry, I mean listening to their challenges and struggles as they look to secure a spot in a completely saturated unemployed market. I have these two friends which are among the 20% of unemployed [...]
Continue ReadingCubicle Chronicles: Productivity and motivational tips for inside sales warriors. By Josiane Feigon.
Sales Productivity Sounds
There was a time when the success of your inside organization was the loud buzz you could hear from 6am until about 2pm in the afternoon (PST) which validated your team was working hard. You’d walk down the sales aisles and hear that loud hum accented with bells, whistles, balloons and cackling sounds from team members high fiving each [...]
Continue ReadingJosiane presents @ NorCal BMA Breakfast on 2/4
Today is a day full of predictions- if the groundhog saw his shadow, then we get another 6 weeks of winter. And the results are in….. he did see his shadow.
On the sales front, my prediction is that BANT is dead. This is a term is frequently used to in the Lead Generation circles to qualify a [...]
Data Consumption and Digital Distractions
I really thought people were bailing on me and wrote me off until a few came through LinkedIn and asked what the deal was because their emails were being bounced back as undeliverable. I swear- it’s not about you, it’s about me- I take full responsibility and really want to hear from you but my josiane@tele-smart.com [...]
Continue ReadingMy Monday Social Media Work-out
InsideView recently voted their Top Sales Industry Social Media Users and guess who is among the 20? Moi. As I beat myself up that I haven’t hung out on the TweetDeck or participated in any LinkedIn discussions or even put a blog post together, I remind myself to be true to my word and practice showing [...]
Continue ReadingSeeking long-term Altruism
One of my New Years resolutions is to commit to giving back to a cause I believe in and plant my altruistic values towards a substantial and long-term cause. The Haiti disaster has kicked this up a notch and brought it to the forefront. Everyone has joined in and as of yesterday, an estimated $150 Million has [...]
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In the January 11th Time Magazine issue, Amanda Ripley writes a great column titled, Please Remain Standing, which points out how passengers are not helpless and how many have successfully averted potential terrorist attacks by taking matters in their own hands. Our hero, Dutch filmmaker Jasper Schuringa led the effort to subdue the recent Christmas bomber, Abdulmuttallab. [...]
Continue ReadingProactive Balancing in 2010
Time Management has become the new catch phrase to describe when one isn’t working as efficiently as they could be. When I look at time management, it breaks out into two areas: Proactive Time; which is when you initiate something and put it into action and Reactive Time; which is when you respond to something [...]
Continue ReadingMy 10 New Years Resolutions
I’ve asked several people what their New Years resolutions were and received the same response. “I don’t put resolutions together because I usually break them.” I don’t get that because I’m all about resolutions and have been for many years.
I like the thought process behind creating resolutions which can take on many forms such [...]
My magic carpet ride in twenty-ten
I don’t know about you but I’m thrilled to move through this dismal decade. It’s one thing saying good-bye to a year that has passed but an entire 10 years. Sure- why not.
This New Years eve, I did something I haven’t done in many years. I ate this brownie which I thought tasted really good and [...]
