Well to make it in the wonderful world of sales, one has to have the ability to keep blazing new trails. I have had many encounters with customers in various sales positions in the past and the number one rule is not persistence. It is creating a common bond with the customer. Knowing your product is important, but knowing what the customer needs is paramount. How can you sell without knowing specific needs? Creating a friendship of sorts will get more sales then slick sales pitches.

I was just reading about the Tiffany Dow article marketing challange of 2008.

I only read this recently and was quite frankly gutted that I missed such an opportunity.

Many of the competitors seemed to flourish in the competition/challenge type environment and everyone was very encouraging towards each other, I thought it sounded like a fantastic event. So, I was wondering if anyone would be up for a new challenge for 2009.

Of course we would need a host...

Sometimes setting goals alone is not the only problem that you must face. Sometimes, choosing the right goals to begin with is harder.

Basically, you can choose to work any goal that you feel is necessary for your health, stability and happiness.

Goal setting is nothing more than a formal process for personal planning. By setting goals on a routine basis you decide what you want to achieve, and then move in a step-by-step manner towards the achievement of these goals....

Success can not be attained overnight. But, still, it can be attained. Funny how people can be so impatient most of the times. Just observe students in the middle of their school life. Instead of being excited that they’ll soon finish education, they would complain of getting bored and wanting to stop schooling for work or, worse, play. Employees and office people, by the time they think they have earned enough money for their family, would plan leaving work to just stay in the house. With these...

They say that we will never really know what we have until it’s gone. So, shall we wait for some things to disappear before we appreciate them? Not exactly. In fact, the mind can and should be trained to focus on the brighter things in life, no matter how little or uninteresting they are, so that negative thoughts shall not succeed in creating an undesirable future for us. Nothing is really late for changes. Here are some ways of training the mind on positive thinking:
• Start the day...