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Customer Recommendations

Nothing helps you make a sale like strong testimonials from satisfied customers. Prospects are impressed when they hear positive things from those who have already bought your product or service. Some types of customer recommendations work better than others....

Best Jobs for New College Graduates

From the just-updated book "200 Best Jobs for College Graduates" by Laurence Shatkin and Michael Farr.   1. Network Systems and Data Communications Analyst.  These professionals design, test and evaluate systems such as local area networks, wide...

Super Worker to Team Leader

A friend and colleague of mine, Tammy Kohl, who is president of Resource Associates Corp. in Reading, PA, spoke recently at a gathering of business coaches in San Antonio on the subject of new team leaders. These are people who often have been the "super...

Finding Beauty

A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time, since it was rush hour, it was calculated that thousands of people went through the station,...

Prospecting: A Key To Sales Success

There is an old axiom: "you have to hunt where the ducks are." This is especially true in selling. If you do not have a pipeline filled with prospects, you are not putting yourself in a position to sell very high volume. The Champion Salesperson recognizes...

Reasons To Love a Recession

Nobody wants a recession, but to help make the best of what we’ve got, let’s toast these 10 good things about bad times.   1. Family dinners. Want to start a revolution? Try eating dinner together as a family. 2. Shorter lines at the pump. Especially...