Why Fear Leads To Career Fouls
At Pegasus Media World, I publish an author who deals with the silent killer of success:. It’s the stealth nature of fear that makes it so dangerous. You don’t typically recognize the majority of times when the deadliest emotion you can have in business is exactly what’s behind the self-sabotaging actions (or lack of actions) …
How To Get Clients From A Conference Or Trade-show
Over the course of a year, my company spent over $25,000 on conferences and trade-shows. Quite a lot of money for a start-up, but something that we found to be absolutely necessary to generate enterprise-level client leads and expand our pipeline. To see a return on our investment, we would need to generate over $25,000 …
What Got Your Here, Won’t Get You That Promotion
A friend of mine shared with me a piece of advice from his military training – he told me that his superior officers used to tell him
The things that got you promoted this time will never get you promoted again.
This is right on the money. Its also completely wrong, but we’ll get to …
Create Solutions Earning A Returning Clientele
A quality relationship is what sells in the business environment. We previously spoke of one major error made by many businesspeople, and that is settling for an immediate sale. Changing the thought will dramatically drive better results. Foremost, give consideration to the distant vision of you prospect. At the same time, reflect upon expected long-term …
Goals On Track Produce Increased Sales
Are you wishfully thinking about what you would like to do, dreaming about what might happen, or are you taking the lead for making your secretive desires come true? Sales techniques definitely put control in your hands to increase your likelihood for success.
Achieving your goalsLet’s take a look at ensuring you achieve your …
Candidates Today Still ‘Running The Gauntlet’ To Get Hired
In addition to what I learn and experience each and every business day about the current job market through my own executive recruiting firm, as a professional “headhunter,” I also keep my eyes wide open and my ears to the ground to keep abreast of current hiring trends and experiences in the broader market.
While …
Sales Techniques Empower Negotiation
Years ago, a famed negotiation trainer pronounced, “Everything is negotiable”, and I learned this to be true. However, sales techniques will increase your negotiation success rate.
Increasing your negotiation success rateThe first step is not to sell or negotiate but instead to understand fully why you are holding a conversation. What is their perspective? …
The Sale Is In The Detail
One of the biggest errors salespeople and entrepreneurs tend to make is to believe spending time defining a troubling detail for prospective clients is a time waster. The lack of explanation will greatly diminish credibility, lessening your likeability factor, and decrease a person’s desire to work with you. Ultimately the trust will vanish. Sales are …
Your Fiercest Competition Creates Success
Your fiercest competition is You!
Are you able to outperform everything you have done in the past? When relentless, and sometimes unusual requests come your way, do you move with agility to complete them on time and in perfect order? Are you doing everything in your power to win?
The real competitionMy personal example …
Let Your Light Shine
My friend refers to the moment a new idea is born as the “ah-ha moment”. All new business begins with that special inspiration. Think about the light-bulb, Henry Ford’s first car, or more recently, recycling. Through the ages, the public initially deemed these novel ideas to be nuts. But the inventors kept on forging forward.…