Archive for Tag: #salesdiscipline

Your sales pipeline is a mirror: what’s your’s reflecting about you?

Your sales pipeline is a mirror. If it’s dry, check your discipline. If it’s full but stagnant, check your courage. Sales punishes hesitation. Act. The more, now that we are coming from the longest weekend on the calendar. If your sales water is not flowing, the problem is not the tap – most probably there’s

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Betting in sales: why luck will never beat preparation

In 2016, Leicester City won the English Premier League at 5,000-to-1 odds. Meaning if you had bet KShs. 200,000, you’d have made a billion. It was the greatest long shot in sports betting history. And what would the lucky few who bet on them have learnt? Nothing The seductive, aromatic, and hypnotic smell of betting

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Writing and selling: the surprising skills they share

What does it take to write a weekly blog for years? The same thing it takes to thrive in sales: patience, discipline, persistence, and a willingness to face rejection. Writing and selling are remarkably similar. This article is the 151st in the writing of Sales Pitch! It makes me reflect. Did I know what I’d

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Selling against the grain: why stoic discipline wins in sales

“Selling against the grain requires a kind of stoic discipline that most people never develop. It means swimming against the tide when everyone else is going with the flow. It means planning when others are winging it. It means standing firm when society tells you to be someone else.” The foremost formidable challenge selling faces

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