by Rob Jolles | Oct 15, 2010 | Public Speaking, Sales Training, Self Help
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...
by Rob Jolles | Oct 8, 2010 | Motivation, Sales Training, Self Help
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...
by Rob Jolles | Sep 17, 2010 | Corporate Communications, Motivation, Self Help
Have you ever heard the expression, “Before you respond, count to ten” before? In this economy I’m changing that expression to, “Before you respond, count to… tomorrow.” Counting to ten just isn’t long enough anymore. That’s because we’re all a little raw right now....
by Rob Jolles | Sep 10, 2010 | Motivation, Self Help
I promised I would not write this particular blog. I promised my niece Stacy, and I promised myself. Who needs to hear about some pathetic mishap on another road trip? Nope, I wasn’t going to write about this one… that is until I figured out what the real message of...
by Rob Jolles | Sep 3, 2010 | Corporate Communications, Motivation, Sales Training, Self Help
I’m a writer. If you haven’t figured this out by now, you don’t know Rob Jolles. I didn’t say I was a great writer; I’ll let you be the judge of that, but I do like to write. I’ve been doing it my whole life. The absolute best times I like to write are when I’m on...
by Rob Jolles | Aug 27, 2010 | Motivation, Public Speaking, Self Help
For twenty-five years I’ve either pulled a microphone out of a mike stand, or clipped a microphone to my tie and worked a room. Sometimes for an hour, sometimes for a day, and when I was younger, sometimes for as long as two weeks. I thought I had...
