LinkedIn’s algorithms are closely-guarded secrets. They don’t want you to know how to get your Post listed first. What they don’t hide are the rules to get a Post punished. In this week’s blog, Bill Farquharson shares a key tip.

A soccer coach hears his team grumble about a drill run in practice. “It doesn’t matter until it does,” he yells. The drill is run again and again. More grumbling. Then one day, in the biggest game of their life, it did. Read more in this week’s blog.

We take a lot for granted today. Sending files around the world for production is commonplace. But in 1998, sitting in a Sydney, Australia hotel and managing an order that started in Denmark and ended up in Boston, well, that was something special. Bill Farquharson retells the story in this week’s blog.

When Bill Farquharson’s young daughters wanted lottery tickets, he saw an opportunity to teach them a lesson about luck. However, like sales itself, luck is a fickle thing. Read more in this week’s blog.

School’s back! That’s good news and bad. For parents who sell, it means running (not walking) a tightrope. Can you do both successfully? Absolutely! Bill Farquharson, the father and stepfather of 7, shares a few ideas on the subject.

It’s August and it’s quiet. Too quiet. So, you decide to make some calls, only to hear a prospect say, “It’s August and it’s quiet.” You can accept that and promise to call back in September or you can take Bill Farquharson’s advice in this week’s blog.

When is midday sales appointment not a day-killer? When you take the advice of a guy who used to put 35,000 sales miles on his car every year without leaving the confines of eastern Massachusetts. Read Bill’s blog for more.

You have a massive and seemingly impossible sales task before you. It is like a mountain. In order to make it to the top, take the advice Bill Farquharson learned when he was participating in a 108 mile bike ride.

Bill Farquharson sat at a stop sign behind a van with a beautiful vehicle wrap. In from of him was a car taking its sweet time before deciding what to do. What happened next is a lesson for all company drivers. Read about it in this week’s blog.