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Are You Trying to Read Minds?

Are You Trying to Read Minds? You’re in a conversation with a customer or customer-to-be. What are you doing? Are you … Planning your response? Composing your next topic? Strategizing your sales pitch? Listening? Now, you know what you should

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Are You a Permanent Occupant of the Waiting Room?

Are You a Permanent Occupant of the Waiting Room? Do you live the Hollywood story?? Before you groan and snarl at me, hear me out. The Hollywood story I refer to is the one where you are doing all the

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Are You Staring at the Water?

Are You Staring at the Water? “You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water.” – Rabindranath Tagore What does THAT mean? Well, in its simplest terms, you are going to achieve nothing by standing on the sidelines,

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Do You Have a Grip on Your Greatest Asset?

Do You Have a Grip on Your Greatest Asset? How often do you focus on “what you have to lose”? Yes, we all have a long list of things we can lose that are really important to us: Money Home

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A Positive Attitude Can Lead to Greater Sales

A Positive Attitude Can Lead to Greater Sales Believe it or not, I once met a business owner who said to me, “I know the economy’s bad right now, and you probably don’t want to buy, but I thought I’d

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Are you an Askhole?

Are you an Askhole? If you want to have sales success, being an Askhole should be one of your goals. Let me explain: A Telling Statistic Herbert True, a marketing specialist at Notre Dame University, found that 44% of all

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Is Your Company Setting Effective Sales Goals?

Is Your Company Setting Effective Sales Goals? Regardless of whether your company is big or small, every company’s sales process has one thing in common: Goals. Businesses set annual sales goals to motivate and incentivize their salespeople to increase product

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Is Good, Good Enough for Your Success?

Is Good, Good Enough for Your Success? Think of the people you admire for their abilities. People like musicians, athletes and even other business people. There is one thing that people who find success know. It’s what Andy Stanley says

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Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal

Life is Not a Dress Rehearsal How much time to you spend “getting ready” for life? If you have ever been part of an athletic team or any sort of entertainment performance like a play, dance or concert, you know

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Do You Need to Pause?

Do You Need to Pause? We are all guilty of committing – or really, omitting – tasks in building our businesses. I see it all the time in my years as the Grow Your Business Coach. But one of the

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