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20
Feb

2010 Winter Olympics

Posted by Clayton Shold in Other "Stuff"

Where does the time go?
I have been enjoying the TV coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver B.C. Canada. Whistler has sure changed from when I first stayed at the local hostel for $10 a night which included breakfast. It was all we needed before heading out to

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20
Feb

New Look

Posted by Clayton Shold in About this Blog

You may have noticed the Salesopedia blog is looking different. We decided to spice it up with a new format to present posts.
The featured posts section will give you a very quick exposure to some of the more recent posts we wanted to highlight. To the right are two

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10
Feb

The Future of Sales

Posted by Clayton Shold in Podcasts

Sharon Drew Morgen is a sales expert who has written 8 sales books and over 1,000 articles on sales. In this podcast she talks about the future of sales and introduces some revolutionary thoughts around sales process that looks at sales from a more holistic approach. Her hypothesis is sales

 
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7
Feb

Are You Having Fun Yet?

Posted by Clayton Shold in Other "Stuff", Sales Tips

I don’t know if it was Confucius or someone else that said it before I did, but here are two related pieces of advice I have shared many times with others:
“Enjoy what you do and you’ll be good at it!”
“Do what you enjoy it won’t seem like work.”
I

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4
Feb

Tibor Tops Top Ten

Posted by Clayton Shold in Sales Tips

Tibor Shanto of Renbor Sales Solutions Inc beat out nine other contenders over at Top Ten Sales Articles in January to take “article of the month”.
Tibor’s article “Plan Goals and Plan On The Means Of Hitting Them” was a hit. Might have had something to do with many in

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3
Feb

Leveraging Sales Coaches

Posted by Clayton Shold in Podcasts

Steven Rosen is an expert in leveraging sales coaching. He advocates for the front line sales manager. One of the key differentiators between top sales managers and their ‘average’ counterparts is their ability to effectively coach and develop their people. He comments that the majority of companies do far too

 
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1
Feb

Field input – take the survey!

Posted by Clayton Shold in Sales Tools

Do you analyse your business? Do you look at your win – loss numbers?
Candidly I never have and it has me wondering why not?
Richard Schroder is a market researcher who happens to have some strong ideas on why companies (and sales producers) should be taking a hard

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31
Jan

Make an Impact

Posted by Clayton Shold in Sales Tips

I’ve never met Nancy Nardin.
I’ve never spoken to Nancy Nardin.
I do enjoy visiting Nancy Nardin’s website Smart Selling Tools.
At the beginning of the month I did a post recommending an ebook she authored titled “Increase Sales Productivity in 2010”. It is a quick read at 103

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30
Jan

Wolf Moon

Posted by Clayton Shold in Other "Stuff"

Late last night I walked out on my deck under a clear sky that helped create the frigid feel. I came back into the house and said to my wife “What a beautiful wolf moon, you can see Mars just to the left of it, but I couldn’t see Uranus.”

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20
Jan

Networking to Leverage the New Economy

Posted by Clayton Shold in Podcasts

Michael J. Hughes suggests getting out and networking is more important now than ever before. He makes sense when he says people’s “trust has been shattered” and one way to counter this is with face to face contact. He promotes the idea the “lost art of social contact” is a

 
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