Rate Yourself

To ‘Sell More’ and to stay more motivated, rate yourself so you know what you need to improve. If you use our Weekly Pocket Guide, on the guest info pages, either in ‘notes’ or in the margin rate yourself 1-10 in each of the 8 selling steps you took with that customer. Soon you’ll notice …

Continue reading

How long does it take to change a habit?

We’ve all heard, “It takes 21 days to change a habit.” Then I read it takes 28 days, and then I realized that when you’re trying to break a bad habit and replace it with a good habit, you better give it 60 or 90 days instead. If you’ll commit to doing just 3 things …

Continue reading

Being Productive

“Am I doing the most productive thing possible right now?” Write this question down on a few business cards and put this note to yourself everywhere – so you’re constantly reminded to “work” when you’re at work. Put a card on your dashboard, on your telephone at work, in your pocket so you’re reminded every …

Continue reading

Huge Tip

Huge tip on practicing that helped me a lot… You know you need practice to get better, right? In real life, the best practice is with a customer because it’s ‘real’. Find a sparring partner… The very best customer to practice on is someone you’re absolutely convinced can’t or won’t buy anything from you, no …

Continue reading

All About Self Confidence

People have always asked me… How do you handle being on straight commission in sales?” They couldn’t imagine having to create an income every month with no guaranteed paycheck. It never bothered me because I knew my current average in units and income each month. That means, as long as I kept doing all of …

Continue reading

Joe Verde Releases New Pocket-Sized Weekly Planning Guide

EZ-Guide To Help Salespeople Organize Their Day Orange County, CA. – March 24, 2011 – There is nothing more discouraging for most salespeople than working long hours, forgetting appointments and missing sales because of one simple reality: they struggle to organize and plan their daily activities. It is exactly for this reason Joe Verde created …

Continue reading