From the category archives:

Overcoming Setbacks

Getting Past a Painful Failure

November 19, 2008

[This is the second in a series of posts about overcoming setbacks we all face in sales. For the first, click here.]
So why didn’t it hurt more to be fired at a bad time like this?
I was ready for it, more or less.  The timing wasn’t great, but I had a few good alternatives to [...]

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Fired. Now What?

November 18, 2008

I took the bullet so calmly, my boss almost looked disappointed.
You might say I’m getting good at this.
Executions of sales people are getting common as the economy spirals downward. And with the financial markets in deep chaos for the past few weeks, we haven’t seen the worst of it.
The average tenure for a sales manager [...]

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