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Over the 30 years or so that I've been in sales/sales management/sales training, there's been the occasional myth that continues to do the rounds. Here are three that still get trained out or cited as being true.
Myth #1: 55% of the meaning in face to face communication comes from body l…
It's great when a business owner recognises who the decision-makers and influencers are. Here's a short story about a kid's party.
If you have children under the age of 10, chances are they're at birthday parties on a frighteningly regular basis.
Really, just how many friends can a …
Time-management. You can't do it; it's a misnomer.
Time's the great leveller: no matter how wealthy or poor we are, we all get 168 hours in a week. Which means that unless you've found a fully functioning TARDIS or Doc Brown's DeLorean, you're as powerless to manage time as the other…
As Warren Buffett is credited as saying, "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."
If I had a penny for every time a salesperson told me that their customers only ever buy on price, well I'd have a pile of pennies. And yet, the evidence points elsewhere. Here's just a few examples fr…
What behaviours do you chose to adopt?
Here's the output from ten business people, across a wide range of industries, on what they like and dislike about others that they've dealt with that day.
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As an independent consultant I have travelled internationally a fair amount over the years and as happens with many business people a number of small plastic wallets with foreign notes had accumulated at the back of the cupboard in my office at home, which had long been overlooked. …
Earlier this month I was lucky enough to be sitting in and observing an NRT Sales and Marketing seminar at one of the North East’s leading Universities. The audience was made up of professors, lecturers and post-doctoral research students, from many different departments of the university each …
I was in my native county – Lancashire – earlier this month, delivering my keynote on the Psychology of Consumer Behaviour. Hey, wake up at the back! This is a bit different, though I admit that there’s a couple of pictures of a brain.
Anyway, part of my keynote examines where cu…
Our guest blog this week is from Barrie Tynemouth.
Earlier this week I went to the local barbers which had opened about 7 years previously, run by two local lads one of whose Italian grandfather h…
I’m guessing you’ve either had this said to you at some point, or said it to someone else.
Seems pretty obvious advice, right? But how do you check that someone is keeping their eye on the ball without using expensive eye-tracking equipment?
This is where coaching comes…
We spend a lot of time researching our training courses and once we’ve found something useful we love to share it. So here’s some useful free resources for you to read, watch and use.
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Tools to help you create your presentation structure
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Mastering Commerciality for Professionals – brochure
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Learning Needs Analysis (LNA)
