“Say what!?” Myth-busting and more
Few people are aware that Rod Mckuen, Emily Dickinson and Theodor Geisel were in sales before they hit it big as poets. Let’s honor their hidden legacy — and have some fun — with a sales poetry slam. Be it in iambic pentameter, haiku, limerick or free verse, add your own using the Contact form. [...]
“Personality” assessments have been positioned as business tools for many years. From Myers-Briggs, to DiSC, to the recently popular Colors, these supposedly help us better understand and communicate with others—including sell to them. Before covering why such tools are often counterproductive in selling, I want to address their unintended darker side. […]
Ah, communication! We want to communicate clearly and effectively...but we can inadvertently send the wrong message. Here are common words and phrases that can trip us up. I'll start with "just" and "actually" because using them purposely does not cause problems -- using them as a verbal habit does. "Just" We use the word "just" to [...]
I am careful about using the phrase "call reluctance" and you may need to be, too. Here's why. Shannon L. Goodson and George W. Dudley are the authors of The Psychology of Sales Call Reluctance: Earning What You're Worth in Sales. This is an appreciation for Dudley in particular, who coined the phrase "call reluctance" maybe [...]
Instead of simply busting this "buyer's journey" silliness I’d like to honor the man who equipped me to do that, and pass a bit of what he taught on. (Myth busted below.) About 36 years ago, after putting it off as long as possible, I entered Professor Keston’s classroom to begin a year of required statistics. [...]
Time for a rant... It drives me crazy when people say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result. Pun intended. The miss-use of a quote along those lines is not just wrong, it reveals ignorance of what a colon does. (The two-vertical-dots kind of colon, not [...]
