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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 saw a post on this topic today. It caused me to pause and reflect. I’ve been very fortunate to have had some outstanding mentors. Naturally, I thought of my Dad and Mom, they certainly are in the top 5. There have been dozens of people that I’ve considered to be mentors, they’ve been in my life for a period of time, had an important impact. Some have been very famous in the business world, I’ve actually hung around some pretty cool people who for reasons unknown to me took an interest. But most of my mentors have been colleagues, […]
Read MoreHopefully, every sales person is prospecting. Whether it’s email campaigns, phone campaigns, or something else, we are constantly reaching out. We are constantly trying to find new opportunities to engage customers. We get frustrated because they don’t respond. Or we may be working with an existing prospect, they may not be getting back to us. We keep calling, emailing, we’re frustrated. Somehow, we have it in our minds that people should respond to us. After all, we’ve sent the clever email or voice mail, we’ve tried to be creative or provocative. Possibly they seemed to have been interested before., “Yeah, […]
Read MoreSo much of the writing about lean focuses on waste reduction. That’s great stuff, we want to make sure we aren’t doing unnecessary work or producing waste. But, at least for marketing and sales professionals, that’s not the real reason to start your lean journey. (I know I have some lean professionals groaning, but hang in there). The real reason we want to focus on lean principles is they are the cornerstone to accelerating revenue growth—and isn’t that what we’re really about? Lean drives great focus and clarity on “Who is our customer,” and “What do they value?” Viciously focusing […]
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