Shoot the Sales Trainer

Conventional sales techniques have not worked well in the past, and they sure as heck don’t work very well today. In spite of the millions of dollars spent annually to train corporate sales forces how to sell, they fail again and again. There are two major...

Taming the “Victim Voice”

This week I found myself out in Los Angeles with a rare opportunity.  I had the opportunity to perform a business “do-over.”  Let me jump in the “Way Back Machine” and give you the back-story here. Six years ago I conducted a seminar in Las Vegas that did not go...

For Want of an Upgrade

Now that we are heading out of summer and into cooler days, here’s a reprint of an article I wrote last winter.  Enjoy… I’ve never been one for big cars.  At 5’ 10”, or at least that’s how I was listed in my high school basketball program, I just...