Earlier this year, I underwent open heart surgery. What did I know beforehand? Not much, I found out
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Getting ready to take the rest of August off and hunker down on the beach with my goal of a book every two days. 15 days, hopefully 10ish books on sales and marketing starting with my buddy, David Meerman Scott's new book, New Rules of Sales & Service.
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Meetings, Meetings & More Meetings...and Sales
Hopefully, you're taking time at the beach in August and not worrying about attending any meetings.
My belief is that the whole purpose of August is to cram in as many of your vacation days as possible, since when business ramps up in the post Labor Day Crush you're out in front of it...recharged and ready to sprint toward December's end of the year craziness.
August for me is about reading. Reading about...
- What's new in Sales?
- What's new in Marketing?
- What's new in business strategy?
My goal is a book a day, but it comes out to be more like a book every other day...just because some days aren't beach days, and turn into meeting days.
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"There's only one single source of the truth"
Sales Stats
With the first six months of the sales year behind us, the Big Scoreboard in the boss's office says it all:
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There's so much written about sales leadership, my eyes gloss over.
By now, I've listened to countless speakers, including the legendary Zig Ziglar, viewed hundreds of videos, and probably read a couple of hundred books and who knows how many blogs on the subject of sales leadership. The problem is that most of the training advice focuses on the motivational, which too often disappears into the wind as soon as the speech or the chapter has ended other than the notes taken and the highlights yellowed.
By now, I figure I've taken over 2,400 trips to Vermont over the years traveling back and forth from either Boston or NH. At three hours, the trip takes about the same amount of time from either starting point, and the distance evens out between 150 and 180 miles.
The problem, as the Boys on the Bench down at the Winhall General Store frequently tell me is that "you can't get there from here" whenever I mention that I'm leaving the mountains to drive to the NH beach...and they're right. There's no easy way to go east and west between Vermont and New Hampshire, and every trip presents a variety of decisions that ultimately end up just frustrating me.
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Trust that you finished the month on Plan and are now racing toward the all-important end of the quarter. I always enjoy this second quarter since it's that perfect time of year to...
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The last post of "Chicken or Egg" produced a fair number of responses to the question often posed in startups of...
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