Are you defending bad business performance?

Years ago I was heavily involved in the surfing industry. And it was on such a mighty boom, it seamed everything with a surf logo on it seemed to turn to gold. As an example, I remember talking to a menswear retailer in the most remote “you’ve never heard of it” hick country town with […]

Advanced Rapport Building Skills

I had a great conversation with a fellow business owner today at the Bunbury Cup racing carnival. Were talking about how selling is such a combination of using a system and then nuancing that system for the person you are talking to. There are scripts that will work in many parts of a sales conversation […]

Why “Following Up” is dirty language

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One of the things I always get asked for by coaching clients
is “how often should I follow up?”

This is a great question. In fact, your approach
for this part of your sales process needs to
be a well thought out deliberately scripted and
strategised process.

Gratitude, and from Slavery to Freedom on Australia Day

G’day, It’s Australia day as I write this – I just got back from a swim with my kids at the beach where we hung out with some other seniors who were singing the National anthem and eating lamingtons. (god bless em) This is a story I sent out about 2 years ago about the […]

Sales Training Lesson # 33 Attracting a better pedigree of client

How to go about attracting a better pedigree of client One key idea you can use today to increase your sales I am determined to give you a really simple idea today. If I could highlight the biggest idea that has made the biggest difference to the clients business’s I have worked with in the […]

Sales Training Lesson # 42 Sales Skill Evolution or Evaporation

Sales Skill Evolution or Evaporation When I first started in sales I worked with a guy who back then was a pure inspiration to me. He had so many sales tapes he studied all the greats from Tom Hopkins to zig Ziglar Jim Rohn and everyone in between. Sales Training at a young Age I […]

Thanks for this Year and Merry Christmas

Hey There, I was going to start with an obtuse story about something seemingly unrelated to you and then make a clever segue into a christmas message. but you know what? I don’t think so not this time… I simply want to say a big THANK YOU for reading my stuff each week and for […]

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