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Your Fall Sales Plan
And just like that, summer was over. Are you ready for the three most important selling months of the year? You will be after Bill Farquharson’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
After the Sting, an Opportunity
Frank Romano once joked, “Bill, you can make a sales tip out of anything.” That challenge is put to the test this week when Bill Farquharson discovers a hornets’ nest the hard way. Check out this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
Print is Dead…For Some
BREAKING NEWS: Bill Farquharson declares print dead! Caught with a hot mic, sales trainer and Short Attention Span Sales Tip creator Bill Farquharson makes an astonishing admission. Hear and read it for yourself.

Friday, What is up with you?
It used to be Friday was just another day in the selling week. But for a number of reasons, things have changed and sales reps need to think about how best to use the suddenly-quiet day. Find out more in Bill Farquharson’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.

How Often to Follow Up
The answer to the question, “Hey, Bill, how often should I follow up?” is personal. It is also revealed in Bill Farquharson’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip this week

Eight No’s and a Yes
What does it take to get an appointment? A lot of the wrong responses, each looking negative. Take Bill Farquharson’s advice from this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip and follow the no’s to a yes.

Sales Opportunities Abound
Leads arrive in the mail every day. You walk past your next potential sale every time you go to the store. A conversation with a friend leads to an appointment. Keep your head up, listen to Bill Farquharson’s Short Attention Sales Tip, and good things will happen.

Sales Energy
Most of Bill Farquharson’s Short Attention Span Sales Tips are written and recorded in the morning. This one was done after 4pm. Find out why that is relevant when it comes to planning your day.

Summer Sales Plan
Finally! We reach the week that includes the Fourth of July. If you have been following Bill Farquharson’s advice, you will not experience a summer slowdown. In this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip, Bill gives you a focal point to finishing the year strong.

Get Your Sales Jersey Dirty
New sales reps and those trying to get to the next level don’t need to be told to practice daily sales activities. It’s the legacy reps heavily focused on managing existing accounts who need to hear the message in this Bill Farquharson Short Attention Span Sales Tip.

Email and Sales Apps and Teams, Oh My!
There are many, many, MANY communications channels in use. In this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip, Bill Farquharson gives you a communications pecking order to set expectations and mitigate the possibility someone is out there awaiting a response to a message you never saw.

Limit Your Sales Day
Want to sell more in less time? Work less hours. That was the lesson Bill Farquharson learned while flying to London to meet his daughter’s new boyfriend. Get the whole story in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
Origin Story
Companies are started out of necessity, opportunity, and passion. Their origin stories can be interesting, captivating, or boring. Usually, the only ones who care are the founders themselves. You know them, they are the people making the big decisions. In this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip, Bill Farquharson shows you why you need to care.
Chameleon Sales
It’s no surprise the hardest personality type to sell to is The Bully. But what’s on Bill Farquharson’s mind in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip is a sales rep’s need to quickly ascertain who you are talking to and adjusting accordingly, especially when you don’t have the luxury of a face to face conversation
A Sales Down Day
Incredibly, Memorial Day is just a week away. That means this Friday is something of a sales down day. Find out how to make the most of it in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
Getting Along with Non-Sales Bosses
Learning to communicate with all personality types is a requirement of the job of sales. That skill pays additional benefits when building relationships with a manager or company president who has never been in sales. In this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip, Bill Farquharson shares some ideas on how to apply selling skills typically used on clients internally.
Don’t Cold Call
LinkedIn asked for advice on how to cold call. Bill Farquharson’s response was unlike any of the other contributors. He didn’t expand there, but he does for you in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
A Sales Team Differentiator
How does a 3/5 star hotel remake itself to be a Ritz Carlton? The same way your sales team can pull together to make a difference in your sales growth. Hear more about it in Bill Farquharson’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
Sales Maturity
You’ve missed your flight. That urgent job is not going out on time. Two frustrating situations, to be sure. You have choices in what to do next and how you handle the situation is important enough to be the subject of this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
Sales Optics
What do Subway Restaurants, a free-anytime hand surgeon, and how you dress have in common? They are all wrapped together in Bill Farquharson’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
The Digital Print Sale
A recent digital print user’s group meeting gives Bill Farquharson a chance to remind the industry it takes more than incredible machinery to make those amazing, show-worthy sales. None of it matters without the critical component he talks about in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
A Cautionary Sales Tale
QUICK!!! Drop what you are doing and watch this sales tip. It might just keep you from unnecessarily giving away a lot of money. Here’s Bill Farquharson Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
Initial Sales Skills
The first and most important thing to teach a sales rep is product knowledge, right? Well, it depends on who you ask. If you are asking Bill Farquharson, you will get a different answer in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.
Sales Worthiness
You are reaching for the phone to call a top decision-maker when a feeling comes over you: Why would anyone listen to you? This kind of self-doubt is not unusual. The question is, will you listen to that voice? Perhaps you should listen to Bill Farquharson’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip instead.
Hearing Sales Voices
On a call with a prospective client, a little voice inside you speaks up and whispers to you. You ignore it at first but the voice persists. Do you listen or shut it out. Bill Farquharson hears voices all the time and has advice for what to do in this week’s Short Attention Span Sales Tip.