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  1. Remember this axiom especially during the holiday gift buying frenzy - "The easiest sale is to another sales person."
  2. When meeting a potential client for the first time, pay close attention to the decorations in their office. They all tell a story.
  3. You can tell pretty easily, those sales reps who have earned $xx,xxx commission checks. They just act differently.
  4. In these tough times, a subscription model seems better than a perpetual model, but evaluate them both carefully.
  5. Don't be tempted to be tough on your existing customers. They will grow again some day soon.
  6. Suspicions about your integrity are just as damaging as proof. Avoid the appearance of impropriety. Look right as well as be right.
  7. When facing a hostile customer, remember you are not in a court room. Winning points in the argument is not the objective.
  8. You want to know the first advice given to sales people? Do what your Mother taught you - proper manners and etiquette.
  9. Are you guilty of "doing anything to close the deal"? If so, don't be offended when called the proper term for that.
  10. Explore sales forensics - the effort to understand what happened in the sale, win or loss.
  11. Sales Rep Rule #17 - Those who claim to be decision makers will hide evidence to the contrary
  12. do you have a balance of trade? - helping others and others helping you? Avoid being too far out of balance on either side.
  13. Vote for Brian Casto - the best sales article of the month - http://www.top10salesarticl...
  14. Consider voting my article the best of the month at http://www.top10salesarticl...
  15. Like the "easy" button, some of us wear the "kick me" button. Use a trusted advisor to check your back for that button, and other ones.
  16. Always credit those on whose shoulders you are standing. Success is not a destination, it is a measure of your journey.
  17. Those hiding ugly are typically those who resist transparency.
  18. From the fog of adversity, betrayal, & disappointment emerges the honorable, trustworthy and faithful. The rest just change fog banks.
  19. Draw a picture. Children aren't the only ones who enjoy and understand "big animal pictures".
  20. Successful sales careers don't just happen. They are a product of passion, hard work, discipline, patience, and an unyielding spirit.