Great article, check it out here.
7 Deadly Sins of the Sales person – Courtesy of Harvard Business Review
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Managed Hosting Purchasing Guide
I am still continuing my writing but more of it happens over at ColoAdvisor these days. I’d like to pick back up on my Corporate Sales Guy rants. A recent work is the guide to purchasing managed webhosting.
-CSG
New Gig ColoAdvisor
Just wanted to let everyone know that I am finally doing my own thing. If anyone is looking for hosting, colocation (collocation), or cloud advice or service let me know. Check us out at ColoAdvisor.
We’re also doing a pretty cool blog where many of the same topics that I’ve spoken about here are discussed over there as well.
Happy Selling-
-CSG
Doing what you love
A while back I was listening to a song off the Buddha Bar Album called Daydreaming by Rollercone. The song starts off with a short spoken poem and part of it goes like this:
“…and when they do something that they love, because when you do something you love, no matter what it is, you do it well.”
It’s amazing, when you do something you love it stops feeling like work. You almost don’t get tired even if you have an extra long or hard day.
New Venture for CSG
For years I’ve been a comfortable employee of well, uh employers I guess. For a small stint in the early 2000′s I owned a share of a car rental franchise and before that the last venture I had was my lawn mowing service at age 17-18.
Long story short – I’ve joined an old colleague of mine to co-found a company called ColoAdvisor. We are basically agnostic datacenter brokers for all things hosting, colocation, messaging, managed apps and Cloud. Check us out at www.coloadvisor.com – I’m still going to keep the blog up and running and now I may have more interesting things to share.
For a brief video of what we do, check it out below and let me know if you have any needs !
Best wishes, and thanks for continuing to read my sporadic posts and rants that put here.
Non-corporate thoughts
Is it wrong to hate the suit and the tie? I find myself craving a hot cup of coffee, my MacBook pro, well worn jeans and a true goal for that day. At times I’ve forgotten why I do certain clerical tasks and as I begin to feel satisfied with the accomplishment of these tasks I become quickly saddened. As a salesperson, no deal has been closed, no contract signed, no rectification of the clients issues.
I recently took some major steps to getting closer to my ideal life work. Folks that know what I am doing may justifiably call me crazy but folks that end up doing what they want in life never have it easy.
Intrinsic
My favorite part of the official definition from google, ” intrinsic – wholly independent of any other object, action or consequence “
This is what sales folks need these days. Your plaque will become a door stop or occupy space in a landfill for sure.
-CSG
This doesn’t sound familiar at all!
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-10/
The perfect sales guy attitude!
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2009-11-09/
Random Thoughts
Mr. Wizard, Get me the hell out of here.
-Neo, The Matrix