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Selling Signs – Selling is a Team Sport

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Everybody sells – Think about referrals from other team members. Then there was the time that I totally screwed up the location of a brick-based monument sign in Denver and, in the middle of winter, the President and I drove out there and fixed it … after it had been completely installed. I was the go-fer. Lemons became lemonade.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Lori Richardson

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Like many other contributors to the series, Lori didn’t start in selling, She found herself moving to sales to support her family. Why I’m So Interested in Selling By Lori Richardson, CEO, Score More Sales President, Women Sales Pros When I was young I wanted to be a teacher, because I loved school and I loved to read.

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“Why I’m Interested In Selling” Eric Anderson

Partners in Excellence

We started hanging out in college, he went into the Peace Corps in Kenya, then came home, riding a motorcycle from Nairobi, up the Nile, and across Europe. He’s always been involved in extreme sports, racing and motorcycles. Luckily, I had a mentor very early on who taught me how to sell the sizzle over the steak itself.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Ron Guilbault

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Preface : Ron Guilbault has been a thoughtful sounding board for all sorts of ideas on selling. At times I’ve been asked for help in areas outside of what I was selling. Such trust is a key component of successful selling. ” Why am I so interested in selling? Selling is the flip side of buying.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Ned Miller

Partners in Excellence

The first Saturday of every month, we reserve an hour or so to catch up on things, to share ideas. As a result, it’s not surprising to see this sentence in his story, “The collaborative nature of selling has always been appealing to me, as has the imperative to keep learning new things.” Don’t look back.

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Why I Love Selling

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I’d had a few selling experiences as a kid. In Boy Scouts, there was always an event of some sort that we had to sell tickets for. My Mom usually bought the allocation I was assigned to sell. In high school, I worked afternoons and weekends at a local sports shop. But none in selling.

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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” Lhat Tzvi

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One of my most important meetings is our monthly conversation, “Trying To Solve The Selling Problems Of The World.” This is a personal essay and it was written as a follow-up to a challenge that my close friend Dave Brock posed to me in our monthly conversation. It frustrated me, even though I did my best – I failed.

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