Dear Student, You’ve been sold a bill of goods. You’ve been deceived.Your grade does not define you. Yes, I know, your teachers, parents, relatives and all those grown-ups you look up to may have told you otherwise, and I understand why you believe them. They are your support structure. Surely, they know better. In many
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“Displaying your intelligence to the buyer is displaying stupidity” Remain Dumb. Stupidity gets you places in selling. Yes, I know. You’ve been told that speaking intelligently and looking intelligent gets you places. True. And in this taking selfies, peer driven, Keeping Up With the Kardashians world, it will. But not in selling. To thrive in
In selling, practice doesn’t make perfect, it makes better. The sales ecosystem being imperfect is something to think about, not dwell upon Dear salesperson, constantly complaining that the system (process or product) is imperfect will only get you sounding like a dripping tap. Repeatedly lumping your entire dismal performance on “the inadequate system” may be
If business unfolded in real life as it does on Excel, everyone would be a businessman…and if selling were the only skill necessary for the business to thrive, the salesperson would have it easy. What irony! Many employees shun sales, yet all who start their side hustle or outright business crave it. One would therefore
Selling is giving a service. You want a plumber with some basic understanding of electrical work. We want elastic skills as employers but shun them as employees. Strange. Selling is giving a service and giving a service is selling. It is the perception that selling and service are mutually exclusive that is the bane of
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Education must be embraced for empowerment, not examination. The certificate, won’t work for you, if you don’t. Employers hire on based on knowledge and skills, yet fire based on attitudes The tragedy of the education system, is that it has been reduced to be for examination and therefore employment. Schools, parents, employers, teachers, students, and
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Globally, even with rapidly changing technology replacing many jobs, the one profession that is still growing is sales. Paradoxically, the sales person isn’t. Why do most sales people fail? Most salespeople fall on the wayside and many grow into inefficiency. This is the tragedy of the sales profession. A worrying number of experienced salespeople aren’t.
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Defaulting into start-up mode when required to, is not something you do for the company, but for yourself. Businesses evolve. Sometimes they go through a rough patch and the angry CEO blatantly exposes the thorns and not the roses. “The industry is going through a difficult time. And, as you can see, if this downward
“How can I get out of my comfort zone in sales?” Enlarge your vision. If your mind can’t handle the figure, your pocket most certainly won’t A one million shilling sale. Does that intimidate you? What about 10 million shillings in sales? Maybe 100million shillings? Intimidated yet? Are you getting out of your comfort zone?
Your attitude will determine one of two results You are not stuck with your attitude. It’s not a tree. It’s a choice you make. Take action against a negative attitude. Snap out of it. Or it WILL kill you. Your attitude will either empower you or poison you. This is true in life as it