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 [...]
Cubicle Chronicles: Productivity and motivational tips for inside sales warriors. By Josiane Feigon.
Archive for the ‘Listening’ Category
Sales Timing
This morning I am awestruck by the essence of timing in our lives. Yes- I’m a real sucker for love stories that have their serendipitous union of two people where everything just fits together- the design is right. Yesterday, my friend Lisa told me about her brother Joel who has been single for a long time and had given up any hope on finding love. To make [...]
Testing the Boundaries
A simple camping trip turned into a family running for their lives. Many years ago we decided to get away from the San Francisco summer fog and head out to the lake. Lake Tahoe was too far the campsites were all full at Shaver Lake so we decided to pack our gear and drive up to Folsom Lake. We [...]
Calling in the Comfort Patrol
You know that dance- it’s the one when you take 3 steps forward and about 80 steps backward. It’s the “I’ve messed up big” dance. The one where you are working so fast and hard in one direction and so attached to the results that everything jumps in front of you, makes you trip and basically drives [...]
Sitting too close to your cubicle mate
One of the best ways to get rid of unwanted behavior is to move. When business happens from the cubicle- who you sit next to and who you have to listen to all day can influence your behavior. Inside sales teams work in very close proximity and in working in such close quarters they learn each others’ [...]
Don’t be shy about winning
When was the last time you did some guilt free shopping? Being conservative about our spending is what dominates our thinking these days. We all look for ways to reduce spending and hunker down during this time.
We are finally seeing signs of life as things are opening up in a small way. When a new job, a [...]
How lucky are you?
Sweet territory? Great clients? Fantastic field partners? Solid manager? Good company to work for? Nice cubicle? Are you just lucky to have all these in your life or did your hard work earn you with the right?
Luck in business and in sales is a big topic of discussion. It’s easy to blame a salesperson who always [...]
Reality Choices
My brother-in-law, John is a night owl and likes to ride his bike to the corner video store to rent a movie. It was almost closing time at the video store when he walked up to the counter to pay for his movie when a guy walked in with a paper bag over his head [...]
Have you taken your hope pill today?
We vote for hope
We buy hope
We sit with hope
We hold on to hope
We speak with words of hope
We watch with hope
We run with hope
We take risks and hope
We listen with hope
We sell with hope
We hold on to the promise of hope each day
Lead Generation is all about Digging
I’m writing on my new WordPress version and it’s pretty nice. I think I’ve accidently erased all comments so please don’t take it personally. I promise from now on, I will not only respond to your comments but I will also approve them for publication. That is if they are nice comments, of course. Any [...]
