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This is Dave Brock’s Blog.
It offers my views on a variety of business, sales, marketing, and leadership topic. My goal is to make a difference for you, the reader, in both your professional and personal lives.
I was participating in a webcast recently. One of the speakers pose an intriguing and important question, “Do you have a daily learning objective?” The response from the audience was predictable, a minority of the participants had a formal objective. Some had good intentions, the majority had no formal plan. Later, I started posing the question to others. The responses were similar, but I also heard a lot, “I take the training my company asks me to take….” By contrast, when we study top performers, each person has a formal objective. Some set aside a period of time to read, […]
Read MoreRecently, I was approached to talk about The Secrets Of Sales. When asked, it caused me to pause. On reflection, I realized, there are no secrets of sales. We already know all of them, the problem is we don’t execute them. Somehow, I think people look for short cuts, or they want to find the “Easy” button. They think there is something or that some “guru” has a trick/technique that changes everything to selling. But there are no secrets to sales. We know what it takes to succeed, we just have to do those things—and possibly that’s the problem. Selling […]
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