Selling slumps. We've all been in this train wreck before. You miss an important sale. You have a series of bad days. You can't sell to your potential. You can't seem to extricate yourself from its deadly grip. You're in a sales slump.
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Added by MANNY LUNA on January 20, 2011 at 2:46pm —
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Have you ever wished you could go back in time and have a conversation with one of the greatest minds in history? Well, you can’t sorry, they’re dead. Unless of course you’re clairaudient, be my guest. But for the rest of us, we can still refer to the words they left… Continue
Added by MANNY LUNA on December 29, 2010 at 11:30pm —
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The candy cane was created by candy maker from Indiana who wanted to tell the story of
the greatest gift ever given., the savior of the world Jesus the Christ.
The candy must be hard to show the solid rock…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on December 24, 2010 at 2:22pm —
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Dealers and automakers are scrambling to fill the Web with social-media marketing, connecting consumers…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on December 21, 2010 at 4:00pm —
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Location-based check in service Foursquare has just announced the addition of photos and commenting features, due to arrive within hours to users of its iPhone application. The features have already gone live on the Foursquare.com website.
According to Foursquare, these two features were among the most…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on December 21, 2010 at 1:47am —
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Tweet Attacks is an interesting and unusual piece of software. In the hands of a ‘white hat’ social media user, it’s the best software on the market for building a targeted following on Twitter. In the hands of a ‘black hat’ type, it’s a spam tool.
Have you seen tweets show up as…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on December 20, 2010 at 1:00am —
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Toyota is offering its customers $500 for tweeting about a recent purchase, in order to build anticipation for its annual sales event.
In order to qualify, customers need to visit the Toyota Shareathon site and then send the following tweet: "If I get my new Toyota during Toyotathon they'll give…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on December 18, 2010 at 6:00pm —
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Added by MANNY LUNA on December 14, 2010 at 3:30am —
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A newsboy was standing on the corner with a stack of papers, yelling, "Read all about it. Fifty people swindled! Fifty people swindled!"
Curious, a man walked over, bought a paper, and checked the front page. What he saw was yesterday's paper.
The man said, "Hey, this is an old paper, where's the…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on December 6, 2010 at 9:50pm —
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When you get what you want in your struggle for pelf, And the world makes you King for a day, Then go to the mirror and look at yourself, And see…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on December 5, 2010 at 10:28am —
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EVERYONE please don't forget to Change your FB profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood. The goal? To not see a human face on FB until Monday, December 6th. Join the fight against child abuse, copy & paste to your status and invite your friends to do the same
Added by MANNY LUNA on December 3, 2010 at 6:12pm —
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Imagine the incredible results you’d have if you and your team really focused on a consistent basis.
You’d likely…
- contribute more
- waste less time ramping back up
- serve customers better (internally and externally)
- find more customers
- come up with more ideas
- plan better
- be less frustrated and stressed
- help others focus more (by…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 30, 2010 at 1:17am —
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When we sell something, a verbal thank you is almost automatic – so automatic, sometimes it can be perceived as less than genuine – a “comment on the weather” filler at best.
Should we do more? Of course.
Most of us work extremely hard to bring in new customers and once we do, we’re given an opportunity to begin building a “barrier to entry” for our competitors – a much more enjoyable position than fighting through…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 30, 2010 at 1:04am —
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Have you ever been there? I'm talking about one of those sales meetings where your manager is hot under the collar because everyone's sales numbers are below target. You all get challenged, maybe even threatened that things had better turn around. You leave the meeting knowing your job is on the line and you have an enormous knot in your stomach.
The anxiety is from the uncertainty of sales itself. Sales is one of those…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 27, 2010 at 6:20pm —
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Facebook Is Bad for the Web, FCC Is Bad for Smartphones
BY Kit EatonTue Nov 23, 2010
Facebook is bad for the web, argues one man who should really know: Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the web. Meanwhile Verizon's arguing…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 26, 2010 at 1:26am —
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There's a Far Side cartoon on "the three personality types" where the first frame is a perky girl looking at her water saying "the glass is half full!" The second frame is a depressed looking guy saying "the glass is half…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 25, 2010 at 6:56am —
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 21, 2010 at 1:51pm —
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Criticizing is Easy, Art is Difficult – Why? – Read this beautiful story of a painter.…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 18, 2010 at 11:30pm —
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Give Thanks
I woke up this morning and knew that today,
The sun would not be shining and the clouds would be…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 18, 2010 at 10:00pm —
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Nov 13th 2010 at 3:16 PM
WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — After remaining stable during the last four years, the percentage of used-vehicle buyers who use the Internet in their shopping process has increased to 68 percent in 2010 — a five percentage point increase from 2009,…
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Added by MANNY LUNA on November 15, 2010 at 11:00pm —
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