Tag: Selling


Pick Up the Damn Phone

Pick Up the Damn Phone

Pick up the phone! It’s simple. At least the idea is simple for me. Always has been. Connecting with people via a live phone conversation has tons of benefits. My objective with this article is to hopefully convince you that talking to a human on the phone is vastly more effective than texts, emails and social media messaging. (more…)


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Selling to Millennials

Selling to Millennials

Selling to Millennials can make you a better sales person.  There I said it.  And I want you to read it as the compliment it is intended to be.  It is a generation that has often been maligned by Boomers and Gen X.  I have to confess to some of that criticism myself.

I think every generation thinks they are better than the generations that follow.  That plus a lack of understanding can attribute to cross-generational jabs.  Now as a sales trainer and coach many of my clients are Boomers and Gen Xers.  These same Boomers and Gen Xers are now encountering more and more Millennials in the workforce and as customers.  According to the Pew Research Center, Millennials became the largest generation in the US Labor Force in 2016.

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