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The 2006 Beloit Mindset List
The 2006 Beloit Mindset List is out, and it's a great reminder of how fast the culture changes, and how little you have in common with people beside you on the bus. Essentially a list of cultural and historical touchstones for the incoming class of 2010, it is fascinating reading, especially for those of us pretending to be capable of investing in things with appeal to this generation.

How Can Anyone Spend That Much Time on Sales Coaching?
If you aren't the low price leader or one of the two or three best-known brands in your industry, and if buying from you does NOT represent the safe choice for your customers, then you are an underdog. And if you are an underdog, you had better be providing comprehensive sales and sales management training and coaching because you can't compete on price or reputation.
5 Frustrations that Derail the Sales Force
I write a lot about the things that frustrate Presidents, CEO's, Sales VP's and Salespeople. Yesterday, somebody asked what frustrates me so I attempted to tackle that question here. I'm very steady and what you see on Monday, you'll probably get on Tuesday and Wednesday too. That said, there are things that will make me eat faster or more often, and here you can read my top 5:

Top 10 Video Blunders When Used as a Sales Aid
It should go without saying that your videos should be professionally produced and directed. The do it yourself videos made on the fly are prone to all ten of the mistakes listed above. Unless you are in the marketing, advertising or videography business, you have no business doing this yourself unless you want to give people reasons not to buy from you.

My Sales Force Won't Use CRM
I mentioned that the key rule to getting salespeople to change is rule #9, Consequences. There are three primary ingredients to having Consequences.
The Importance of Pride, Self Esteem and Confidence in Selling
My guest on this week's edition of Meet the Sales Experts was Bob Sinton and we talked a lot about the importance of pride, business self-esteem and two levels of confidence:
Bench Strength and a Hard Driving Sales Force
He also spoke at length about the right way for companies to use value to decommoditize their products and services. Bill elaborated about the difference between real selling and demonstrating and presenting. His 5 tips for owners, presidents, and CEO's? He said that things really aren't terribly different other than money being tighter. So he said:
1st of the 10 Kurlan Sales Competencies that are Key to Building a Sales Culture
#1 - IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU! Believe it or not, there are a lot of people in sales who mistakenly believe that the world revolves around them. If my previous sentence said "show business" instead of "sales" it would make sense but this isn't show business.
Make your SELF Indispensable! Build a Bigger Network and Increase Your Market Value.
Every sales leader needs to consider their market value. Not only should sales leaders regularly evaluate and determine areas for growth for their staff, but also for themselves. When I talk about market value, I am referring to the two critical areas that will help you increase your value to your organization and as well as up your personal value. Your market value appreciates as you become a better leader and have a large professional network
Why You Are Who You Are
The main reason why you are who you are is YOU. No matter how you became who you are or gotten where you are, staying there is your own choice, your own decision. Leaders were not born successful; instead they set a goal for themselves accompanied by a course of actions that is focused, enduring and persist long after their goal attainment. How could you claim of being in charge financially, professionally, and socially when aspirations and basic enjoyment of life remains exclusively restricted to the fantasies of TV drama and shadowy darkness of dreams................
Differentiation is the Difference
What differentiates you from every other Realtor® in your town? Are you achieving the success you want or do you wonder why others are accomplishing more than you, even those in your office? Ask yourself these questions; how am I different from all the other agents in my office, in my profession? Why should clients list their property with me or why should people want me to represent them in purchasing a home?

How to Achieve The Success That Has Eluded You In The Past- Part 2
Here is the second set of 5 powerful ideas to help you achieve the success that you want but has eluded you in the past.
Sales Staff Motivation
An article on how important recognition and praise is to staff motivation.
Sales Simplified - Discovery... The
Salespeople must be skilled at asking key questions on every call in order to find the solution that would best fit the needs of the customer/client. How do we do we do it effectively?
Writing Tip: The harmful effects of Rambling Rose
Most people use what we can the Rambling Rose writing process. They type as they think through the content. When people do this, there are predictable outcomes for the writer, the draft and the reader.
Obama Stock Analyst Turned Currency Analyst
China's calling for a super reserve currency as the Fed and Treasury stack on trillions of dollars in US debt. While I don't think China will get their wish for a new global reserve currency anytime soon, I feel their pain. Once foreigners stop buying our debt, we're in big trouble!

Who Should Your Sales Force Call On
It's not always obvious. If your company sells oil drilling rigs to oil companies, then your salespeople know who to call on. If your company sell luxury cars to wealthy people, you know where to find your prospects. But what if you sell products or services that could be sold to a much broader range of customers or clients? Who should your salespeople call on then?
Don't Accept The Big Bad Economy
If you keep reading about the bad economy and you keep telling everyone how bad it is, you’re allowing yourself to have a bad economy and to perpetuate that it is okay to struggle. The media will do enough of that — don’t help them.
Leads for the Sales Force - Not
I received an email last week from a LinkedIn connection promoting his new super duper lead engine that connects salespeople with the most powerful buying influences in the world. Wow.
Your Salespeople Call on the Wrong People and Expect Them to Buy
How many sales opportunities fail to convert because your salespeople failed to meet with the individual(s) in the company that could do something about it?
When is gigahertz a proper noun?
Marketing Communications needs strong advocates if it’s to do its job well.
A retirement plan for African leaders, Mo Ibrahim
African leaders, Ibrahim (says), look to retirement as they would to the edge of a cliff, beyond which lies a dizzying fall towards retribution and relative poverty.

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Leave It All To Have It All
Today's laid off workers are not the blue-collar workers in manufacturing jobs: those have long since been shifted to China. Today, prized engineers and corporate Vice Presidents of such-and-such have been sent to the bone yard.

Like to Double Your Memory - Permanently?
Revealed for the first time: the personal memory system of Evelyn Wood, creator of Speed Reading. She graduated 2 million, including the White House staffs if four U.S. Presidents. You can learn it in under 15 minutes and people will you a genius.
Bench Strength and a Hard Driving Sales Force
He also spoke at length about the right way for companies to use value to decommoditize their products and services. Bill elaborated about the difference between real selling and demonstrating and presenting. His 5 tips for owners, presidents, and CEO's? He said that things really aren't terribly different other than money being tighter. So he said:
Manage your Assets but Lead your People
I have had suggestions made to me by owners, presidents and CEOs that would baffle the mind of most professionals that have integrity. For example, I once was asked to fire an individual because his wife's illness had caused the company to reach their catastrophic cap in their insurance program. This same owner would intentionally run mail that contained checks to his vendors through the meter at two cents so they would arrive with postage due. He thought this was a great cost savings idea until the government sent him a cease and desist letter.

5 Frustrations that Derail the Sales Force
I write a lot about the things that frustrate Presidents, CEO's, Sales VP's and Salespeople. Yesterday, somebody asked what frustrates me so I attempted to tackle that question here. I'm very steady and what you see on Monday, you'll probably get on Tuesday and Wednesday too. That said, there are things that will make me eat faster or more often, and here you can read my top 5:

Why training should be the last thing you cut
An organization I'm familiar with anticipated doubling its size within a year and, in order to manage the change that growth would bring, put in a new layer of management. Five vice presidents were installed, all of them promoted from within. Rather than effective planning, this turned out to be disastrous for the organization. Morale disintegrated. Turf issues and tempers began to flare in the formerly supportive environment. And productivity plummeted. Why? None of the VPs had ever had management training.
Leading By Example
Leading by example is one of the popular terms used by Presidents, Premiers, Popes and Professionals to describe the integration of attitude, philosophy and practice toward a specific goal The person doing the leading is, by definition, engaged in a pattern of behaviors that embody the symbiotic relationship between the values of the organization and its leaders. This, unspoken, agreement is reinforced by way of the organizational history, the mission statement, the culture and the hundreds of sustainable practices that are a natural part of the organization’s existence.

Statism Of The Union II
As far as the observation that both have (or had) the ability to make great speeches, I'll concede that Presidents Reagan and Obama are similar. But the similarities end there. In terms of real substance, Barack Obama definitely ain't Ronald Reagan....
When You Should Promote From Within And When You Should Hire From Outside The Company
Their company was on the rise. They had gone from $50 million in sales to $250 million in just 10 years. They had a softball team, a family picnic every year, and a Christmas party that was so loved by everyone that groups of people would get blocks of rooms and stay the night to party together. Almost every Thursday the entire office would end up at a local bar for a few drinks together. Most of the Senior Vice Presidents made it on Thursday night as well. And then the CEO decided to retire.

Presenting The Unprecedented President
This week, President Obama used his favorite word several more times. That word is "unprecedented." Easily, the present president has used that word to a degree which is without precedent, unprecedented by any of the preceding previous presidents who previously preceded him. Easily....
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