When Did Cold Calling Begin – A New Discovery
A recent find has provided a new perspective on the beginning of telephone cold calling. When you Google it – one article has it beginning…before the telephone was even invented (duh!), and most others point to the 1950s. However, there was a company...
The Great Salesperson Purge of the 1920s – Could It Happen Today?
100 years ago – 1922 – the sales world encountered a year with 85% salesperson turnover. You read that right! A year when “sales executives discharged practically ALL of their salesmen”! Given that just 18 months earlier, the sales world...
What Tom Brady Can Teach Us About Career Decisions
Tom Brady, the GOAT of NFL quarterbacks, just experienced an emotional low. That is NOT the time to make a career decision for a professional athlete, or YOU! Don’t let the recency bias of emotion influence decisions that you can never get back!
The Transparent Sales Leader – Coming Spring 2022
As a salesperson, I always had a process…a structure. As a sales leader, I was a dog chasing a car down the street, never knowing where it was going. I had no structure. I had no process. So I created one. The Transparent Sales Leader combines structure with...
