Hiring the Wrong Person Costs You Three Times Their Annual Salary
Throughout my recent posts, my message has been: hire the wrong person and it's going to cost you money...Heaps! Simple really. The old chestnut 'Hire attitude and then train', in this brave new world of data and measurements, is an old belief. Don't get me wrong, a...
The Big Three That Will Make Or Break Your Sales Recruitment
What not to do when Hiring Salespeople. Hire in your own likeness- A potential salesperson comes in to meet with you, and within a short time you have hit it off, you may have even shared some key rapport-building facts about each other. Of all the applicants that you...
How to Avoid the Biggest Mistake You Can Make when Hiring a Salesperson
How to hire a Superstar Salesperson each and every time Today, I released my free report on How to Hire a Superstar Salesperson each and every time. To coincide with releasing this free report, I wanted to share some of my thoughts around how I have hired salespeople...
A Library card is all your need
Sometimes we need a little motivation to get us going; here is a great story about seeking your own motivation. It was a cold winter’s morning in Austin, Texas when I was dragged along to a keynote speech done by Og Manadio, the famous author of the book “The Greatest...
If Media Companies Can Do it- Why can’t you?
A Valuable Lesson. Throughout my 30 years of selling advertising to companies of all sizes, I learned many valuable lessons. I began as a door-to-door stationary salesperson in Sydney, selling everything from pencils to exercise books. I then moved on to selling...
The Butterfly Effect
In 1963 meteorologist Edward Lorenz announced a stunning discovery. For decades, people had viewed the universe as a large machine in which causes matched effects. “Cause and effect” it is sometimes known as, or “what you reap you sow.” He discovered The...
How to Speed Sell
Have you heard about Speed Selling? Speed Selling is a great way to launch a company and I have participated in it several times. Over the years it has become a lot more sophisticated. My old company, NRS Media, has fine-tuned it to pretty much launch a brand new...
What is your Personal Operating System?
Decide your Personal Operating Procedures In my last post, I talked about the story of Contiki, this excellent travel company born out an idea of John Anderson that provided 18-35-year-olds an avenue to see the world in the company of people their same age. In his...
£25 and a Dream- Kiwis blazing the trail
£25 and a Dream Down under the under, a term I used to tell my American clients to describe where New Zealand was in relation to Australia has had one of the best summers for several years. It's a chance to reflect as well on what makes this part of the world a...
The Difference between a Small One and a Large One
Do you know the difference between a small sale and a large Sale An excellent book that I have had tucked away in my library is called Spin Selling by Neil Rackman. In Neil's book, he maintains that there is a difference between a small sale and a large sale and...