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Is It About You or Is It About Them?

While in Copenhagen facilitating a seminar there, I heard this interesting comment “I’m looking for 21 or more positive people to join me.” This brings up some interesting questions! Who is this all...

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How Being The Observer And Observed Will Help You!

In my training I talk about how you can learn a lot from being the Observer and the Observed when talking with people. Deepak Chopra refers to it as being the Seer and the Seen. What this means is,...

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How to turn your ‘Warm Market’ into an “Ice Market”!

Thoughts and words can take on unintended meanings. One of them is thinking about and calling your friends, family and people you know as – your “Warm Market.” Here are 4 thoughts as to why thinking...

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Reconnecting With People Who Have Said No!

If you’re like most network marketers or direct sellers, your financial and personal success is dependent on the number of people you connect with on a daily basis, and the number of those who become...

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Increase Your Enrolling Power By Using This Re-Phrase

There is a standard “closing phrase” in conventional selling that goes like this; If I could show you a way to… (you fill in the rest)? If you’ve used it, you’ve probably discovered, if you’re...

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A Simple Way to Present Your Product Without Presenting

Do you find some people want to know right now about your product, and are just not interested in answering your questions? So what do you do? Do you go into presentation mode guessing what you think...

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Eat dust or make dust? Your choice…

Here is something my pal Terry Lamb wrote recently on Face Book. This is ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT in these days of economic and job security uncertainty, no matter what your government’s statistics tell...

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Effective Listening and Questioning Skills On A Ski Lift!

While skiing in Whistler, British Columbia, I bathed in both the natural glow of the sunshine, and the glow of a Natural Selling Dialogue. It was between a distributor friend of mine and another person...

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A Natural Selling Dialogue Example You Can Use

Here’s an interesting question I get asked at virtually every workshop. I’ve also given you how I usually respond so you can as with your team it it’s appropriate How would you deal with this...

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He Got Me At Hello – And I Couldn’t Wait To Say Good-Bye!

When I had an office way back in my foolish days, a sales rep came in one day and asked me what business I was in.  I told him, and he asked if I had a few minutes to see whether a service he was...

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What If Your Sales Conversation Falls Apart!

Ever had one of those times when you couldn’t answer a question, or you slipped back into your old habit of doing a fire hose presentation and your potential customer mentally and physically moved away...

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Don’t Get Mad – Get Enrolling!

Get annoyed with telemarketers calling you in the evenings with their canned scripts?  Do you cut them short and hang up? Why? At least they’re doing what many distributors and direct sales people...

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Ignorance Can Make You Wealthy!

I was at our local market place savoring a nice apple pie a la mode when I struck a conversation with some people there. We got around to talking about selling, and one of them, I discovered, used to...

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Need Minus Desire Does Not = Change

While touring a remote and habitable Island in the South Atlantic, we took a tour to observe the Penguins there. Our driver was a young lady; full of vigor with a delightfully independent attitude of...

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The Secret To Opening Up A Closed-Ended Question

Many people I talk with tell me that they ask a lot of questions and yet get responses that are one or two word factual answers,  such as ‘yes’ or ‘no’. Their dilemma is that they don’t know what to...

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Listening What People Mean, Not Just What They Say

Have you ever considered that even one word can have a profoundly different meaning to what it can mean to you, and what it might mean to another person? We all use the same words to communicate facts,...

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Detaching From Your Need To Present

Here is a great question I get asked a lot… Michael… How do I apply the four Natural Selling principles to “on the fly” situations. I am reasonably good at striking up conversations with people in...

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These tips are no longer available If you wish to continue receiving the tips I will shortly have a New Natural Selling Follow Up Continuity Membership Program that you will be able to join. I will...

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