Making time to sell

Making time to sell

In no profession is time management more important than in sales. For a salesperson, the greatest resource is the time available for customer contact. All the selling skills in the world are to no avail if there is not enough time to put those skills into practice....
Time is the currency of life.

Time is the currency of life.

Don’t make your job your whole life. If you become too focused on picking the fruit you may miss the flowers that are there as well. Always keeping busy at your work not only keeps you from working smart, it keeps you from fully enjoying life.  Participating in other...
Customer service in the age of speed

Customer service in the age of speed

In one the first books I wrote over thirty-five years ago titled “Making time to sell,” I told the story of how a successful advertising salesperson explained his secret of selling advertising space by saying that he was a “six-minute salesman.” In those days, at...