What is the true value of good marketing and sales?

Have you ever heard start-ups or entrepreneurs claim that they can’t afford to pay for marketing and sales? They’ll “make it up to you” on the back end with a high commission payout. Yet these same entrepreneurs will invest hundreds of...

Who are today’s Gatekeepers?

Remember the days when the dreaded executive admin (aka-gatekeeper) would screen all incoming calls to their executives. As a salesperson, you were convinced that they all looked like battle axes, always woke up on the wrong side of the bed and never had even the...

Where is wisdom found?

Where do you find wisdom? Through a Google search? In a book? I conducted a Google search for wisdom because that is where most people these days try to find things. The top results listed wikipedia and several on-line dictionaries with the definition for the word...

Sales Instigators Wanted!

We spent a lot of time with my mother’s best friend Jackie when I was growing up. I always looked up to her and loved her vocabulary. On one occasion, Jackie told me that I was a true instigator. I asked her what that meant and she told me to get the dictionary...