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Speak Chinese in Only Three Seconds!

Weren’t the Olympics amazing!  I don’t know about you, but I thoroughly enjoyed watching the US teams and individuals compete for the gold.  I can only imagine being able to actually be there, in person, watching the festivities.  With that thought comes to mind the difficulties of travel.  I can recall several instances where I [...]

26Aug2008 | Jonathan D. Nicholas | 0 comments | Continued
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Your Salespeople Aren’t Working!

It truly amazes me the number of salespeople that I run into on almost a daily basis who have created sob-stories as to why they aren’t selling.  It’s the economy, their market, consumer confidence, the mortgage meltdown, tight credit and a host of other reasons.  Even more sad are the managers who honestly believe that their salespeople [...]

10Jul2008 | Jonathan D. Nicholas | 0 comments | Continued
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Company Meetings: 10 Things you Shouldn’t Do!

If you’re like me you absolutely can not wait to attend the next company meeting.  You probably spend sleepless nights pondering with anticipation what exciting content might be presented at the informative, team-building functions.  Yeah Right.  NOT!!  When I speak of meetings, I’m of course talking about the regularly scheduled weekly, bi-weekly, monthly or whatever meetings that [...]

7Jul2008 | Jonathan D. Nicholas | 0 comments | Continued
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Technology: It Does Your Schedule Good!

OK first, I apologize to the Milk people for using a variation on their famous campaign. Secondly, WAIT A MINUTE! Technology?? Even though technology and REALTOR have shared the same sentences since the 80’s, it was never good! We’ll, most of the time is hasn’t been so. Now remember, it wasn’t too long ago that [...]

19Jun2008 | Jonathan D. Nicholas | 0 comments | Continued
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Does Your Sales-Force Need to Be Drawn & Quartered?

You might be thinking to yourself, “Yeah!  That sounds like a great idea!  Better yet, why don’t why we just tar and feather them while we’re at it!”   Broker’s, I’ll let you enjoy that fantasy for a little bit longer.
 
Ok, are we ready to proceed?  By “drawn” I’m talking about drawing up a plan to [...]

13Jun2008 | Jonathan D. Nicholas | 0 comments | Continued