I praise those who leverage their networking skills and who possess the sales prospecting mindset and discipline to convert weekly networking contacts into serious prospects and eventually raving customers. In this economy, these are my heroes!
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While business as usual may seem to be a safer course of action, I am going to suggest in the next few blog posts some tactical strategies and techniques to increase market share and improve sales prospecting performance and results.
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With all this gloom and doom news, I’m still very optimistic because I’ve been here before!
Right now, Opportunities abound! This is not a typo or the rantings of an energized senior
citizen who od’d on the Kool Aid! The 4 reasons to substantiate this claim include……