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How to Keep Your Sales Activities Fresh

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Fresh does not have to mean new or ground breaking. Some of the best advice was written hundreds and thousands of years ago (look up Aristotle’s writings: he really understood people).

 

Fresh can be as simple as an iteration or add-on to something already discussed or shared. Stale ideas, suggestions, or practices can be freshened when they are challenged, rethought, and if still relevant, recommitted to.


I don’t know about you, but I can get stale. Instead of keeping myself ‘fresh’ by updating my own skills and consistently looking for fresh strategies, I shortcut best practices that work and get stuck in my own way of doing things.

The problem: Staleness leads to inconsistent activity, results, and wins.

Fresh does not have to mean new or ground breaking. Some of the best advice was written hundreds and thousands of years ago (look up Aristotle’s writings: he really understood people).

Fresh can be as simple as an iteration or add-on to something already discussed or shared. Stale ideas, suggestions, or practices can be freshened when they are challenged, rethought, and if still relevant, recommitted to.

Fresh ideas come from listening and watching for relevant information that can help us be even more effective.

Why is that important?
Our eyes and ears provide us the opportunity to learn more and pick up new information.

Why is that important?
New information can change our paradigms and add effectiveness and efficiency as we have more to work with.

Why is that important?
More ideas, practices, tools, and resources allow us to personalize every conversation by adapting to the person and situation.

Why is that important?
Adapting or ‘right sizing’ the way we share information, data, and details means we are focused on what is relevant to the other person.

Why is that important?
When it is about Them… we get more—More connections, More wins.

Why is that important?
When we connect and win more, we earn more, enjoy our job more fully, relieve stress, and have more time for personal endeavors.

Why is that important?
We are happier and so are those around us.

I’m not suggesting you throw out the time tested best practices and recreate the proverbial wheel. Instead, I’m challenging you to keep asking yourself and those around you, “Why is that important?” or “Is there another way to approach this?”

How can YOU stay fresh?

When you are with colleagues, teammates, thought leaders, or anyone you can learn from, look for and share fresh ideas or freshen up your current practices. Leave the stale ones for your competition!


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Nancy Bleeke, President of Sales Pro Insider, Inc., and author of Conversations That Sell, a must-read for sales teams around the world, is known as someone who gets things done. She is driven by a battle cry that companies need to make their conversations count-with customers, prospects, and team members. When the right people have the right conversations, companies thrive. Her focus since 1998 is equipping companies to grow sales, customer loyalties, and employee engagement with training, consulting, assessments, and tools that stick. Learn more about Nancy.

 

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Nancy Bleeke, President of Sales Pro Insider, Inc., and author of Conversations That Sell, a must-read for sales teams around the world, is known as someone who gets things done. She is driven by a battle cry that companies need to make their conversations count-with customers, prospects, and team members. When the right people have the right conversations, companies thrive. Her focus since 1998 is equipping companies to grow sales, customer loyalties, and employee engagement with training, consulting, assessments, and tools that stick. Learn more about Nancy.

 

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