Ask yourself, what true baggage am I carrying on a daily basis that is now a barrier for my growth in my entire life? Everyone has something keeping them back. Get rid of the baggage. Do not allow another day to go by, without seeking out a way to crush the barriers.

Fact: It was a Wednesday afternoon in 1993, a real nice fall day in New England.…

DealerElite blogstar Stephanie Young reached out again and asked me to post for the site.  I hope it can help some sales and marketing types out there in the auto world!

Summertime. 

Everyone is out and about with the kids, going on vacation, hitting the pool, and grilling out.  Schedules are booked with parties and other social obligations…and you can’t…

How can this be? How can success and failure be one in the same? That doesn’t make sense. Does it?

Professional Baseball Player- Gets up 5 times in a game and strikes out, all 5 times. One would agree his performance was a failure. He is a professional, which makes him successful. Right?

Professional Golfer- Has a round of 80. Eight shots over par. A very bad day, for professional golf…

When business is just excellent, do we give big incentives to employees, have big parties, talk how great everything is going? Do we spend plenty of money on advertising, training, upgrades to our businesses? 

Do we have the attitude, "We can conquer the world"?  We know we will do just awesome, by trying, paying attention to detail, pumping up our staff, going strong,  all day long. We will make it happen!!!  The throttle is wide open, nothing will be acceptable outside of…

While training a group of experienced sales people, I posed a question.  "How much do you want to earn this year?"  I thought this was a direct question.  Simple and to the point.  I was amazed at the answers (which turned into stories) from these seasoned veterans.  Some complained about higher taxes.  Others were already adjusting their goals (downward of course) because they weren't on track.  But, they all had one thing in common.  It was someone else's fault that they weren't going to…

Over the past few weeks I’ve been on the road pretty much non-stop.  A few of the first time dealers I’ve recently trained are: Panama City Toyota, Stokes Mazda, Kia Country, Courtesy Chevrolet and Superior Chevrolet.  One of the great things that has come out of our “Personality Selling Seminar” at the dealerships is they…