Sales - especially the psychology of and systematic sales systems - think Sandler etc http://www.sandler.com/ytpage/show/728 - I have begun to participate in a new biz networking group anchored by a retired CEO of multiple fortune 1000 companies who trades for his own account now after retiring his $55M hedge fund as he now only has the pressure he puts on himself - he makes a steady 10% a day on his laser focused trading platform. He was known as the sales CEO and every company onshore offshore or outer space needs world class sales - become a channel partner to huge companies that need to reserve their inhouse sales staff for other mega corp sales... SMB sales are almost always via Channel partners - who were salesmen who revolted against dumb sales managers who limited their accounts territories or incomes.
Best of all learn to sell products and services virtually to scale far beyond face to face sales.
The "Sales CEO" has agreed to allow me to write a summary business plan regarding his trading platform techniques and raise capital to implement the plan using my own automated knowledge engines... I was going to take refresher C++, PHP and HTML5 courses but he convinced me to think like a CEO and not do it myself but hire the best and manage them.
So I listen, learn and sell and then sell again and again and again...
People like to buy from people and companies they trust - guys calling up now with heavy India accents using bogus Americanized names like John McMillan or Gary Grant or Sandra Jones and then try to hustle in a barely understandable English (Yes all three happened to me recently) immediately lose credibility by thinking Americans are too stupid to see they are lying through their teeth and thus shoot themselves in the foot and kill any trust based sales opps they might have been able to develop had they honestly used their given names.
Sleazy biz practices are that just plain sleazy - the need for ethical competent trust based trusted adviser sales reps and trusted independent channel reps has never been greater and best of all great sales reps can sell any where on the planet there are customers as every business and company small or large needs great sales reps to survive, grow and prosper as NO sales equals NO income and eventual bankruptcy.
Best of all learn to sell products and services virtually to scale far beyond face to face sales.
The "Sales CEO" has agreed to allow me to write a summary business plan regarding his trading platform techniques and raise capital to implement the plan using my own automated knowledge engines... I was going to take refresher C++, PHP and HTML5 courses but he convinced me to think like a CEO and not do it myself but hire the best and manage them.
So I listen, learn and sell and then sell again and again and again...
People like to buy from people and companies they trust - guys calling up now with heavy India accents using bogus Americanized names like John McMillan or Gary Grant or Sandra Jones and then try to hustle in a barely understandable English (Yes all three happened to me recently) immediately lose credibility by thinking Americans are too stupid to see they are lying through their teeth and thus shoot themselves in the foot and kill any trust based sales opps they might have been able to develop had they honestly used their given names.
Sleazy biz practices are that just plain sleazy - the need for ethical competent trust based trusted adviser sales reps and trusted independent channel reps has never been greater and best of all great sales reps can sell any where on the planet there are customers as every business and company small or large needs great sales reps to survive, grow and prosper as NO sales equals NO income and eventual bankruptcy.