Back in 2012 I joined a local referral group, part of Gold Star Referral Clubs. If you aren’t familiar with how referral groups often work, typically it is a group of business professionals who get together on a regular basis, and support one another through referrals and cross promotion. For…
A close friend once told me that the biggest challenge to beginning any business or career endeavor is most often “surviving the drip.” It’s having just what you need to get by for TODAY, so you can make it to the next.
Yesterday, we shared How Can Serving Leaders Help Overcome Challenges? on our Developing Serving Leaders blog, talking about how the world’s changing. Today, we begin providing you and your teams with the tools you need to succeed in changing world. I believe we are living in age of incredible opportunity. To succeed…
A while back, a very close artist friend posted a question on Facebook: “Does anyone have any suggestions on how to close a sale?” Apparently, she had been experiencing some frustration with prospective buyers “dancing” around the notion buying her paintings—and not being able to get them to cross the finish line, so to speak.
You build relationships through value. If you have not heard this expression, remember it. So how do you do this? When you make a new acquaintance, do not think about what they can do for you; rather, what can you do for them?
In the last several blogs, I’ve written about how so many people in organizations feel disengaged. We talked about how this is impacting our current client relationships and also how it could be hurting your organization’s and team’s growth. I thought I’d share a framework that I use to help…
I’m working on several projects where clients have asked me to determine if their sales team is fully engaged. There have been several recent national studies stating between 60-70 % of employees working today are not engaged in their jobs. Over 15% of these employees are no longer engaged, but…
For all you who are fathers, Happy Father’s Day! What were the most important leadership lessons your father learned from your grandfather? What life lessons did your father pass on to you?
Today, we do our first executive briefing on using The Wedge.We’ve chosen to do this initial briefing because many of our readers have shared that something has changed in the last year about how they sell and market their products and service. They shared several sales trends that are impacting…
Did you know that you may very well have a gold mine of market research data available at your fingertips…and that it is already paid for?