My old boss … who is my best friend and someone who definately had an impact on helping me develop as a business man … Jason Gorud reminded me last week of one of the best stories that I might have with regards to sales…
The year was 1998 Tokyo … and I was the sponsorship [...]
Scott Ragsdale
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Dec
13
ode to Friday deal day…
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Dec
12
stick to the pitch II
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today in cape town office … i was on a conference call and looked up and saw one of the new sales guys roaming around the sales floor with his cordless phone in his hand …. pitching.
i had to put the 5 people on the conference call on hold as I inquired what in [...]
Dec
12
stick to the pitch…
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Last night I took LP and Mark from Ambition out to dinner at my favorite restaurant in Cape Town… over the dinner we discussed the concept of “sticking to the pitch.”
We discussed several employees as well as previous employees that excel because they stick to the pitch.
I remember when I first started in sales [...]
Dec
9
Cape Town
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I am flying to Cape Town today. The flight is an easy 12 hours and 40 minutes… with my 2 hour flight from Nice to Amsterdam I have the pleasure of flying for roughly 15 hours today… but nothing as bad as last month.
Last time I flew to Cape Town …. after flying 13 [...]
Dec
5
“Scott, have you become soft????”
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In the past couple of days three sales guys that once worked for me … all without knowing each other, sent me emails or posted comments asking if I have become “soft.”
Each of them was refering to the reference in the blog about me “demoting” two underperformers … because the old Scott they remember, terminated [...]
Dec
3
I was in the Dubai office last week reviewing the key staff as well as meeting with Thomas Du, the CEO of Lnoppen China…together Thomas and I brought a lot of magic smoke to the office (Thomas enjoys cigars even more than I do)
Anyways …
The last evening in the office, I had a 2 hour [...]
Dec
2
when the house burns down …
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Recently, I “uninvited” back to the party someone that had let me down — an admin person - someone whom had nothing to do with sales or production, but this person betrayed my trust.
I noticed yesterday a banner this person had put onto their skype:
“it was not until my house burned down did I [...]
