Tag: Sales

Praying i don’t get handled by a savvy salesperson

Disney Speakers
Yesterday, meeting with a global speakers bureau director from Madrid.

 

Praying i don’t get handled by a savvy salesperson.

Spend a lifetime in sales and you can become amazing convincing. You may also stay mediocre…time doesn’t equate to excellence, but it can.

What the buyer cannot tell from initial phone calls, emails, and one physical meeting is how much of the pitch is accurate and how much is inflated or hidden to make the offer the most compelling for the buyer.

Praying suits me.

i pray every day.

All day.

So this situation isn’t rare, it’s just different.

 

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Why have they not shared their pricing up front?

Castle turret
Simple, corporate, .different

 

Praying that i will continue to have the peace and contentment with my business model to walk away from any opportunity that isn’t a right fit.

Two other “management consulting” firms have auditioned besides me.

Neither of them have revealed their pricing.

It was the first thing i shared.

And it’s always been on my website, just one click after landing at jeffnoel.com

 

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On April Fool’s Day 2009, jeff noel began writing five daily, differently-themed blogs (on five different sites). It was to be a 100-day self-imposed “writer’s bootcamp”, in preparation for writing his first book. He hasn’t missed a single day since.

 

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Motives often come with an awkward aftertaste

Florida wildflower
Two days ago at Tibet Butler Preserve. iPhone cameras are good, but not great.

 

The things we can be grateful for often come from unexpected sources and sort of blindside us at first.

The marketing person’s email review and ‘bold’ website critique yesterday was exceptionally helpful.

It was a nice prompt to rewrite a few things at www.jeffnoel.com

That rewrite inspired the same at the other four blogs.

What was awkward was the timing. Her helpful critique was the result of her ‘fishing for business’. Betting she thought i wouldn’t notice her ulterior motive. No harm no foul, business is business – unless the customer (me in this case) reads right through it.

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The first word was a later addition

Disney Donald Duck T-shirt

 

(photo: T-shirt at Disney’s Hollywood Studios gift shop)

The first word was a later addition.

The original vision, mission, brand, positioning statement summary was one word:

Servant

It was some time later when the degree of difficulty was exponentially increased:

Humble Servant

Finding creative, concise, compelling ways to stay motivated and focused is our number one job as CEO of You, Inc.

Told the CEO in yesterday’s call that all humility aside, no one brings to the table what he could buy from Mid Life Celebration.

No one.

Mad skills for sure.

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