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Embarrassing Moments

Painful Sales Call Prompts 3 Fashion Insights

June 6, 2009

You try to forget the many embarrassing moments in selling. Even so, one of my more uncomfortable incidents stays in mind 20 years later. Maybe that’s because I managed to salvage it — more or less.
Here’s what happened.

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How to Try Out New Sales Approaches with Low Risk

April 15, 2009

[This is the fifth in a series about Prospecting and Sales Negotiations. The prior post suggested some ideas that have helped me improve my prospecting. Some of them go against the grain of a lot of current thinking about good selling skills. This post suggests ways you can try out new sales approaches at relatively [...]

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