Increase Sales with Better Note Taking

Have you ever reviewed your sales people call notes? Don’t look at what they put into the CRM look at those raw notes they captured during the conversation, the raw footage. The importance of capturing information is so valuable, and one of the most underdeveloped traits that a salesperson or even many support staffs have. Read More …

Go Global, Go Viral, Start Local

In a recent podcast I ask @ekaterina (Ekaterina Walter) about going viral. It may not be the answer you would expect from the author of The Power of Visual Storytelling: How to Use Visuals, Videos, and Social Media to Market Your Brand and Think Like Zuck.. Related Podcast and Transcription: Visual Storytelling with Ekaterina Excerpt Read More …

The System of Composing a Piece of Music

I asked John Woodall this question: I want to jump to composing a piece of music. I think it’s more of a system-type thinking approach that you’ve got this grand idea, and you look at this big picture, but then you’ve got to start writing this single note to start out with something. It’s like Read More …

Tell Good Stories, Be Curious says

grayspective aka John Gray. John participated in a past podcast with me recently and below is an excerpt from the podcast. The entire podcast and transcription is available at Startup Entrepreneur to Storyteller. Joe: Is there a good way of doing it to develop stories for businesses? John: I think ultimately is it starts at Read More …

Constructing Teams starts with Standard Work

When I use the SALES SDCA approach in Lean Marketing, I emphasize the use of sales and marketing teams. It is one of the underlying principles that are needed. A few basic team development structures need to be identified at the very beginning of the project. I discuss Leans around the three processes of SDCA, Read More …

Can Numbers be Creative, Can Numbers be Imaginative?

Author, ERIC SIEGEL, PhD, is the founder of Predictive Analytics World and Executive Editor of the Predictive Analytics Times. Eric makes the how and why of predictive analytics understandable and captivating. Joe: When we look at this, data certainly plays a part but people would refute the fact that data can tell the future. I Read More …