Archive

Welcome to the archives. These articles represent many different seasons of my career. You’ll find posts written during my doctoral studies, years of marketing consulting, entrepreneurial experiments, and the occasional reflection on whatever happened to be capturing my attention at the time.

Blogging looked very different when many of these posts were published. Rather than removing them or fixing broken links from now defunct themes, I’ve chosen to preserve them as a snapshot of where I was, what I was learning, and how my thinking has evolved over the years.

Some ideas have stood the test of time. Others reflect the questions I was wrestling with at that particular moment. Either way, they tell part of the story.

Setting the Stage

by | Mar 13, 2020 | Uncategorized

Before I go too much further I must first set the stage for you.  I feel that I need to explain a few things about the culture here.  If you have never worked in a sales organization much of what I will write will seem foreign.  The individual salespeople in this organization are very entrepreneurial.  They are paid on a 100% commission basis.  With limited exceptions there are no full-time salaries to be had, so these individuals are focused on doing one thing and one thing only — selling.

Keep this in mind as it will be yet another dominant theme in my writing.  If you were only paid to sell, what would you spend your time doing?