by Doug Robinson | Jan 30, 2017 | Assessing
While helping one company with some sales coaching, I spent some time with a sales rep who had been trying to sell laptops, tablets, and business software to one of her buyers at a healthcare facility for quite some time. Her frustration led her to put together a...
by Doug Robinson | Jan 23, 2017 | Sales Basics
Would you rather tell your crew your hunting saga of how you tracked a gray squirrel and blasted him out of a pine tree with a .22 rifle, or would you prefer to recount your big game hunting trip to Colorado, where you stalked and bagged a 1000 lb., 6½ ft. tall elk...
by Doug Robinson | Jan 16, 2017 | Sales Basics
As we begin this week’s post, if you missed last week’s Part I of this conversation you can access it here before reading Part II. OK, now that everybody is on the bus, here we go back to Napoleon Hill as he concludes his advice about negative influences in Chapter 15...
by Doug Robinson | Jan 10, 2017 | Sales Basics
It seems to me that the beginning of a new year is a great time for salespeople to be reminded how fatal negative influences are, along with how to avoid them. To accomplish this I’m reaching back eighty years ago to Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. Since it is...
by Doug Robinson | Jan 3, 2017 | Sales Management
What’s your game… HVAC service tech, Pest Control/Termite specialist, Lube Store technician, or Lawn Care applicator? Common sense says service folks like these, and all manner of technicians in dozens of similar professions like these, should be the world’s best...