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Check Your Bank Account. There Is A Deposit Of 84,600
Wouldn't it be amazing if... today, you log online and open your bank account. You find a deposit of 84,600. What is the first thing you would do? How would you feel? How would you spend it? Stop for a moment before reading on and visualize that scenario for yourself. Really get into it and feel it. What a thrill this is.

5 Ways to Gauge Sales Management Coaching
Most sales leaders would agree that coaching is the most impactful activity a sales manager can do to drive sales team performance. Studies reinforce this by showing that above-average coaches deliver 20 percent more sales. The challenge? Sales management coaching is the weakest-performing activity among managers. How do you know if your managers are effective coaches? Here are five ways to find out.

Linkedin Tips From a Sales Coach | Business Coach
Picture: Make sure you add one if you don’t have one on your profile yet. Headshot is best. Personal Tagline: Write one, and update it. Click on the blue text, “What are you working on” Maybe place your elevator pitch here?

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Gifts for Special Clients
Here's an idea that costs you nothing to implement, and can be a more thoughtful gift to a client than anything else.

How to Improve your Click Through Rate in Google AdWords
Learn how a few thoughtful tweaks to your ad copy can make a HUGE difference to your bottom line.
How To Improve Your Own Time Management Through Seven Strategic Questions, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Time is such a precious commodity and it is highly valued by strategic thinkers. Strategic thinking people want to get the most benefit out of their time and they have discovered that a great way to do just that is to develop the ability to ask yourself the strategic questions at the right time. And the beauty of this technique is that you only need to invest no more than sixty seconds to ask those questions before you begin any specific activity, task or assignment. The skill of asking the right questions must be acquired and as time goes by you will improve your ability to ask the real strategic questions. It is important to learn how to ask questions and one tip is to have your questions begin with the word “what.” Here is a list of seven strategic questions to ask.
Would you benefit from someone really being there for you?
A person you can trust to lend a thoughtful ear when times are tough - or perhaps, ground you when things are going crazily well. A confidant, that inspires you to be more of who you really are to help you achieve your purpose. How powerful would this be?

Probing: Leading and Controlling with Questions
What: is a probe Why: do we use probes Questions are one of the most powerful weapons in a salesperson’s arsenal of procedures and techniques. Questions require a prospect to participate actively in the sale. Questions help us learn the prospects hidden wants and needs. Questions give us time to gain lost composure. We must become excellent question askers and effective listeners.

Designing the Organization
Often how an organization is set up determines its effectiveness. When leaders do a reorganization, sometimes they are not thoughtful enough about what they are trying to accomplish. The result is a mess. This article discusses some aspects of organizational design.
Socratic Struggles
Using the Socratic Method to guide discussions is a well known tool. The method is frequently used in educational situations, but it can be a powerful tool at work if used well. The caveat is that it can be dangerous if used poorly. What has been your experience with using the Socratic Method? Are you alert to when other people are using the method with you? The attached article has some of my thoughts on this subject and gives a list and examples of the six types of socratic questions. 1. Questions of Clarification. 2. Questions that probe assumptions. 3. Questions that probe reasons and evidence. 4. Questions that probe perspective. 5. Questions that probe consequences. 6. Questioning the question
The Gravity of Failure
We can and should learn from failures. We just need to be thoughtful about the lessons we carry forward.
What questions should I ask when buying a business?
There are many questions buyers typically ask when thinking of buying a business that include the level of sales, qualifications and motivations of the employees, questions about landlord and suppliers. While these questions are helpful and appropriate, this article offers some more questions that will help in the decision of buying a business.

Maxwell: Oil to $300 by 2020
Thoughtful comments on oil from veteran oil analyst Charlie Maxwell in weekend Barron's:
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