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Category: Creative Selling

How to Handle the Charity Request

They come in weekly and sometimes daily. Non-profits want free stuff and, hey, you don’t get if you don’t ask. In this week’s blog, Bill Farquharson offers up an idea for dealing with the requests while still being kind and accommodating.

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Your Sales Attitude

When one of his personal summer goals (to improve his tennis game) went badly, Bill Farquharson learned a lesson about the importance of attitude on the court and during a sales day. Find out more in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.

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An Important LinkedIn Nuance

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.

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Stop. Think. Sell.

When your selling style mimics your grip-it-and-rip-it golf swing, the result can be, well, chaotic. But after observing some professional golfers, Bill Farquharson made some “swing” changes that crossed over into his sales game. Find out more in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.

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Big Little Things

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.

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5 Sales Frustrations

It is an unfortunate human trait to believe that everyone else is doing better, selling more, and suffering less than we are. In this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip, Bill Farquharson takes on 5 common sales frustrations.

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The No-Lesson 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.

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More Than Just a Price

If you think winning quotes is all about price, this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip by Bill Farquharson will help you see differently. Watch/Read and learn how to differentiate your quote and attract the right kinds of customers

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Get Sales Lucky

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.

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The Cold Non-Sales Call

Every day during his first unbearably hot summer of sales, Bill Farquharson walked (uphill in the snow) down one side of the street and back on the other (uphill in the snow) cold calling door-to-door. Strangely, he doesn’t recommend it for you. He thinks you should take the advice in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.

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