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Your Sales Legacy - Rubble, Ruins or Remains?

Posted by Frank Belzer on Tue, Feb 02, 2010 @ 04:58 PM
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One of our key people - Mike Thornton shared a picture with us earlier this week of his brother. His brother is currently serving in Iraq and the picture he had sent was of him at the bottom of a Ziggurat. Iraq is full of rubble and ruins but very little remains of what was once a great empire.

Babylon had hanging gardens - a Ziggurat with trees, plants and water feature. It had bridges and causeways and a huge wall that had gates decorated with blue tiles. But today almost nothing remains - other than a few piles of rubble and a few ruins.

So no matter how great you were yesterday or what you did in the 80's or 90's and how fast you were growing in 07 - none of that matters. Many businesses have just a pile of rubble left as a result of these recent conditions. Nothing even worth rebuilding. Are you building a sales legacy that can last? That means lasting through good and bad. Are you building something that is in a constant state of improvement and growth? are you building something that will stay ahead of the competition? Babylon was a beautiful city but it is gone. They were conquered, cities abandoned and forgotten.

Perhaps you are wondering " is my sales organization strong enough? Are my people growing?" If you are then let me know because we can help you find out.

 

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You're right Frank. Sometimes we're so happy with what we did last decade, last year or even last month that we don't notice the competition sneaking up on our best customers.

posted @ Tuesday, February 02, 2010 5:26 PM by What have you done for me today?


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