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Sales Calls – Opening Lines – When it all goes wrong!

A great sales blog that has sadly shut it’s doors is sales itch which was run by Ed Mclean. I had chance to have a look at it again today and it made me smile. In particular, I love Ed’s sales bloopers series. In particular blooper number 2 – which starts off like this:

Me : “Good morning, may I speak to Mike Wright please?”
Gatekeeper : “No, I am sorry, Mike doesn’t take calls”
Me : “OK, no problem. Perhaps you can help, I saw that Mike recently made an announcement about the Hertford project. I have been working on a similar project and wanted to make contact. Is Mike in the office at the moment?

The ending – well you just need to check out the post yourself here : http://www.salesitch.com/2009/07/sales-bloopers-no-2.html

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Sales Tip: A christmas poem to help you sell more?

Wow – Christmas is coming!

It must be because I have just come across the first sales related Christmas poem.

http://blog.meetingtowin.com/2009/11/17/twas-the-recession-before-christmas/

Have a read – its light hearted  style hides a great message to all sales people and sales managers in the run up to the end of the year.

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