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e-Rep Is A Great Idea, But I’m Too “X”

I’ve heard ‘em all. Every reason why creating and maintaining an e-Rep is a great idea, but not for me because…

I’m too busy
I don’t know what to blog about
I’m no tech whiz
It’s too complex
It’s too hard to learn how
I’m a sales pro, not a techo-geek
Blah, blah, bull-feathers!

Oh, and let me not forget my [...]

Selling Is STILL One Person At A Time

Hey, Sales Pro!
Do you:

Wait around for the marketing department to create content for you?
Consider blogging a poor use of your time?
Ignore the selling punch of video – you personally creating sales videos that sell?

I humbly suggest that’s crazy!!!
Or do you have the opposite disease?  Do you:

Focus intently over the number of hits your web [...]

The “Blog Brochure” – Someone Please Shoot It In The Head

If I have to be polite to one more so-called marketing professional, manager or executive who proudly shows me his or her blog that consists of post after post after post focused on product this or service that or feature X or internal announcement Y or some other such eloquent drivel that has inhabited printed [...]

Record Your Internal Meetings!!!

Have you ever said something during an internal company meeting and when you’re done think that maybe you actually said something worthwhile?  Maybe even pretty darned good?  Maybe something that can be packaged and used to help everybody sell better-cheaper-faster?
It happens all the time!
You say things.  Your colleagues say things.  90% or more of [...]

Think Audience of 1

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and again and again…  Every h-Rep needs an e-Rep. That is, every human sales rep needs an electronic alter-ego; a highly personalized, customized, electronic version of him or herself.  I repeat the refrain for two reasons:

It is unequivocally true
Appalling few sales reps have bothered to create [...]

The 14-Step Arrows In Your Quiver Content-Generation Strategy

My colleague Todd Schnick is a smart guy.  While I can’t lay claim to thinking up the “14 arrows” I talk about in today’s podcast, I sure as heck can use them to generate marketing muscle!  If you want to read about them, check Dreamland Interactive.

An e-Rep By Any Other Name…

The theme of e-Rep pops up fairly regularly in this blog – even more often in my mind.  In my book, maintaining and continuously improving the value of my electronic alter-ego (…or sales assistant or whatever you want to call it) who’s on duty 24 X 7 X 365 is essential for all sales reps.
Seems [...]

All Sales Reps Should Blog

Dave Brock is smart guy.  If you’re in sales, you’ll find consistent value and solid thinking in his blog.  Most times I nod in agreement while reading his stuff.  Most times it broadens and deepens my own understanding of an issue.  His recent Should Sales People Be Blogging? post though…  Gave me heartburn.
It’s a context [...]

An Unintended Consequence (That’s Good,)

A little over a year ago, I started blogging in earnest.  I did it based on relentless urgings from the two guys who have become my Dreamland partners.  I really didn’t want to do it, but they harassed me until I finally gave in.  They told me it would be good for my marketing efforts.  [...]

I Am In Sales, So Why Should I Have My Own Blog? 15 Reasons

A guest post by Todd Schnick of Dreamland Interactive…
We do some work with a large, multi-Billion dollar company.
They have a sales force that numbers around 1,500 people.
And if you asked us, we here at Dreamland Interactive would tell them that EACH AND EVERY one of those 1,500 people should have their very own [...]