How do you lose a job?

How do you lose a job?

It may seem like a strange title, but it certainly isn’t. Often, it is not written about how to lose an assignment, but only how to win it. How to win an assignment is something that only your own organization can really know. They are the experts in their field...
Early Bird sales tactic

Early Bird sales tactic

If you want to increase your sales, you need to do everything you can to give yourself an unfair advantage over your competitors, or sell smart. Research shows that one of the best ways to do this is to catch it early: Forrester Research found that the first vendor to...
Three important questions

Three important questions

A few years ago, shortly after launching my new website, I thoughtlessly picked up the phone as it rang. When the caller announced that he was from BIG Airlines, he quickly had my attention. He had visited my entire website, was very impressed and also very interested...
Waste

Waste

I was having lunch with the new president of a large manufacturing company. She was very familiar with the work I had done with their sales organization. So when I asked her what her biggest challenge was, I assumed we were talking about sales. Instead, she said,...