In the first part of this article, Dan Kennedy started describing the first three reasons you need a coach; accountability, being questioned and challenged, and being listened to. Top performers in both athletics and business use coaches to keep themselves at peak performance. What are you doing right now to…
Selling is easy. We all know it. It’s PROSPECTING that’s difficult. In fact, the number one reason sales professionals FAIL in a wide range of industries is not that they don’t know how to sell…it is because they do not know how to prospect. Or, if they do know how…
In the previous blog, I discussed how to get to know your technology or software business’s target market. In this part, I’ll talk about why how much you know makes a difference. Different things appeal to different people. Different people buy the same product for entirely different reasons. For example,…
I’m always reading books, websites, articles, looking for the issues and challenges you, the reader, are facing. From everything I’ve seen, lead generation is a big topic of interest. In just a cursory search on Google using the keywords lead generation, I found the following searches took place in the…
by Keith F. Luscher Author, Prospect & Flourish We all know that happy customers are great for prospecting for new ones–through referrals and introductions, and also through getting testimonials that you can use in your customer communication materials. But there is one medium that I have yet to see leveraged…
This week Keith F. Luscher, Author, Prospect & Flourish takes on the challenge of what do you do once your identify a potential client that appears to be online but really isn’t. Currently, more than 60 percent of U.S. Twitter users fail to return the following month, or in other…
I’ve just starting using a new sales tool called Xeesm that allows me to learn about my clients before I meet them. I can follow my clients and potential customers across the social media world and get to know them before we meet. As an experienced sales person, it provides…
I don’t think anyone would argue with me that big changes are happening in the technology and software business world today. Things that used to work don’t any more. The number of things to do exceeds the time in which to do them. You’re already stretched to the breaking point. …
I share my thoughts on Coach Wooden at Extraordinary Partnerships today. I think building high performing teams is critical to your technology and software companies’ success. As small business leaders we have many responsibilities and leadership is critical to you success. For the small IT and software business you can…
You Have More Technology. You ‘Process’ More Work. But Are You More Effective? By Dan S. Kennedy There is a ‘secret key’ to peak personal productivity and performance that entrepreneurs are unwittingly depriving themselves of, to a worsening extent from one year to the next. This subtle form of self-sabotage…