
How To Sell Like Elon Musk
Start by asking yourself the question: “What problem needs a solution?” What Can We Learn from the Ventures of Elon Musk? It wasn’t enough that Elon Musk founded and later sold PayPal (for $1.5
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Start by asking yourself the question: “What problem needs a solution?” What Can We Learn from the Ventures of Elon Musk? It wasn’t enough that Elon Musk founded and later sold PayPal (for $1.5

Negotiation is a fundamental part of being a sales professional. No matter who you are and what you sell, you are going to be required to negotiate with buyers. Every author of every book

Many of the same principles that are fundamental to elite athletes are also critical to ultra-high sales performers. I’ve always been in awe of professional athletes’ ability to maintain composure without sacrificing intensity. Whether
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with prospecting. Where do you even start? In this short video, Jason Eatmon, who is a Sales Gravy master trainer and author of BOSS, teaches you how to take

You do all that needs to be done, follow all the tried and true techniques to evoke a response and still nothing. What if your prospect goes silent? Has this ever happen to you?

Like many of us I also hear lots of reasons aka excuses for someone being late or believe it or not, just not showing up at all. Today I overheard something very refreshing. A

Most of us are easily sidetracked by distractions disguised as work activities. Dick had wandered down the hallway and found me at my cubicle desk. Other than the morning DJ’s we were the only

“Look,” I said to Jackson as I swung my feet off my desk and pulled my chair forward, “you need to understand that in business a relationship isn’t based on lunch and cut flowers

This year, ask yourself daily if you are being busy or productive. Get off the sales treadmill with the endless loop to nothing. It’s first quarter and you have 12 months to achieve your

How do you walk up to a perfect stranger and strike up a conversation that could lead to sales? The first thing is: don’t think about sales. I’d like to get to know you

Commonalities might be good starting points but sellers need to be a little more subtle about how to use them and if they can’t be subtle and conversational and real about it, they should

Here are four things that you can do to ensure that you retain more clients and increase your prospecting success. Wouldn’t it be easier, and certainly faster, if all we had to do to