Practice Won’t Make You Perfect? Practice makes perfect. Well that is what we are constantly told isn’t it? But is it correct? This idea was probably best publicised as Malcolm Gladwell’s “10,000-hour rule”, which says that takes 10,000 hours of practice to become an...
How to Create the Perfect Pitch You either love it or you hate it. What is the first thought that goes through your mind when you are asked to stand and provide a one minute pitch about who you are and what you do? Excitement or dread? As my clients are mostly micro...
Happy Because I Can! I’ll be happy when the weather gets warmer…or cooler. I’ll be happy when I retire. Oh gosh, I’ll be especially happy when I win the lotto. Hang on – Why do you have to wait to be happy? Why do you have to have things organised in a particular way...
The Joy Of Selling “Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can’t be faked.” Peter Guber A sales coach told me many years ago that the highest paid employee was a real estate sales women from the United States and that salespeople were on average, paid more...
How to Explore the World Less Travelled Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could When I first read Robert Frost’s poem…The Road Not Taken, I was completing Senior...
Selling is Never About You Rather than focusing on negative perceptions around the fear of being rejected when in the selling process, ask yourself instead – if you were your customer, What’s in it for ME? Why would I want your product or service? “Humility is not...
