Thursday, March 31, 2011

7 Ways Being More Confident

Building a business while fighting your fears is no picnic.

Fear of failure, fear of success, fear of making the wrong decision, fear of having people follow what you do, fear that people won’t follow what you do.

Holy moly, who’d want to have a picnic with those guys around?


7 Ways Being More Confident Will Make You More Money

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Goldman's Love Affair With Voice Mail - NYTimes.com

Some people say it with flowers. Others prefer e-mail. Lloyd C. Blankfein, once a BlackBerry addict, now says voice mail is his chosen method of communication.

Goldman's Love Affair With Voice Mail - NYTimes.com
Maybe it's not your favourite selling technique now, but when you know how to approach new potential prospects over the phone with the goal of establishing a relationship with them the right way, cold-calling can become your go-to method of bringing new business into your professional services company. Once you can successfully cold call, you can accomplish anything else in selling. It’s like bench-pressing 300 pounds and then cutting back to 100.