Author Archives: Bill Noonan

It’s hard to get a second chance to make a good impression.

Mental and physical ‘touch points’ take mere nanoseconds to associate a good or bad impression of you in the minds of the receiver.

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‘Top Selling’ Beats Everything.

‘Best seller’ or ‘top seller’ or even ‘hottest selling’ nomenclatures grabs our customers attention more effectively than most anything else we can do.

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5 Questions to Evaluate Your Social Media ROI

Is Social Media just a product looking for an application? Delivering information via social networks is not the same as selling, although many who don’t sell for a living will have you believe so.

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Pipeline Forecasting: Managing Everything You Don’t Know.

The challenges of forecasting sales encompasses a sound management of the risks.

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Selling Smart: Doing the Right Things vs. Everything Right.

Doing everything right doesn’t guarantee a sale. The subtle, yet big difference, is doing the ‘right things’.

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Practice Builds Self-Confidence.

I’ve often been frustrated with the lack of results with sales training. When I think back on it, what I was really missing was sales practice.

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Learn To Take Your Time In A Hurry

The legendary Wyatt Earp coined the phrase ‘Learn to take your time in a hurry’. There are a few comparisons to sales that a gunslinger can teach us.

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