The bigger the opportunity, the more difficult it will be to win. The nature of big deals is that there are more competitors competing to create value and differentiate themselves. There are also more relationships to manage. These factors (and many others) make them more ...
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Christopher sent me a note on LinkedIn asking me to explain the difference between a lead and a prospect. I answered by ...
The time to protest a war is before it begins. If you disagree with the war on whatever grounds, you should call your ...
My very first job was washing dishes at a huge banquet center. I was 13 years old, and I desperately wanted the money. I ...
There is one critical ingredient necessary to hustling and producing. If you have this ingredient (and many don’t), you will ...
You need to be prepared to prospect. But not as much as you might think.
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Some companies press their suppliers for lower prices because it is their business model. They drive prices down to drive ...
Prospecting is difficult. It isn’t easy to open the new relationships that create new opportunities. A lot of things that ...
Right now, what is the most important thing you should be doing? What is it that you need to do that is going to produce the ...
Every bit of advice that you read on the internet, including blogs like this one, needs to be taken in context.
Right now the word hustle is in vogue. A lot of people use the word, but it doesn’t mean what they think it means. It isn’t ...
The hockey stick is a growth chart that shows some inflection point at which revenue goes up at an extremely high angle and ...
The email in my LinkedIn inbox is titled: Re: Killing the Cold Call. The opening line reads, “I hate cold calling as much as ...
“My leader helped me turn in my most mediocre performance ever.”
The contact page sometimes brings really interesting emails (stop by and say hello sometime).
Yesterday I sent my newsletter to 25,000 people. The subject of this newsletter was how I inherited my work ethic from my ...
While you are busy connecting on Twitter, your competitor is on the phone dialing up your dream client and asking them for ...
Here are 9 responsibilities of a leader.
