From the monthly archives:

April 2007

Banking And Customer Service: Sales Advice Needed

by Mike Sigers on April 29, 2007

For the last several days, I’ve been going back and forth with a reader who says she’s an operations manager for a bank and has 10 branches reporting to her.
I feel like she was looking for someone to write a new book and base it on the religion she wanted to start.
You know the kind: [...]

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I Hate Settlin’

by Mike Sigers on April 28, 2007

You may have noticed, if you’ve read more than 10 of my posts here, that I hate settlin’.
I hate mediocrity. I hate average. I hate compromises. I don’t like to finish lower than first.
Jennifer Nettles, seen above with Kristian Bush, the other half of Sugarland, said it and sang it well in their newest hit, [...]

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Was Madonna The Original Linkbaiter ?

by Mike Sigers on April 26, 2007

I was hurtling down the highway a couple of days ago, listening to my Sirius radio on the Big ’80’s channel and when Madonna came on to sing Like A Prayer.
Suddenly it hit me that she was the original linkbaiter and that video was the first linkbait.
I remember the buzz around it when it first [...]

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Tony Stewart Agrees With Me About NASCAR

by Mike Sigers on April 25, 2007

As much as I hate it, I have to agree with Tony Stewart, who happens to agree with my previous rant about NASCAR treating it’s fans like they’re stupid.
Tuesday night on his Sirius Radio show Tony said arguably the same thing I had said a few days earlier.
Here’s some of the quotes from Tony Stewart:
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If The Dalai Lama Was Your Sales Manager

by Mike Sigers on April 22, 2007

Inspiration hit me, like only inspiration can, upside the head after following a post from LifeHack.org to it’s homebase at RirianProject.com.
This particular post was about 10 Timeless Lessons from the Dalai Lama and they’re great lessons, but here at Simplenomics, we talk mostly about sales, so I thought I’d try to adapt it to selling. [...]

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