People Want What They Can’t Have: The Know-It-All Prospect

There are some funny moments in your life that you will never forget, as insignificant as they seem at the time. I recall one such incident from college that always makes me laugh.  We had a mutual friend who was a good guy, and harmless for the most part, but a real know-it-all.  No matter […]

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One Day in the Life: Selling to Seymours: The Paralysis by Analysis Prospect

We know it takes all kinds of people to make a world, and some say that we are all God’s children, but knowing that doesn’t it any easier to sell to certain types of people. The “paralysis by analysis prospect” is a difficult one for most salespeople, for one basic reason: we want to make […]

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One Day In The Life: Lying is an Acquired Taste

“Do you have any idea why we are having this meeting?” I asked one of my co-workers… “I don’t know,” he answered. “Maybe we are all getting canned today.” “That didn’t help,” I thought to myself, and no one else in the office seemed to know. Frank, our boss and the regional sales manager, was […]

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