Tagged With "Thirty-Seven"

I thought this would be appropriate to start off today's blog Another closing day and I ain't got no orders I got some opportunities 'cause i just made some calls How I wish I had someone to sell to I'm in an awful way Right, so juiced up the lyrics a bit from the Sam Cookes rendition of "Another Saturday Night". My personal favorite is Cat Stevens version. If any one else would like to fill in the rest of the lyrics, then have at it. Could be a fun exercise for everyone! It was another day...

I am so looking forward to having an extra day off next week! The last 75 days have been extremely stressful. It will be nice to have three days to wind down a bit. Does anyone feel like me that this year is taking forever to unfold? Most years it seems that the months and quarters fly by. So far this year seems like everything is going in slow motion. I had a plan for today and it consisted of researching three possible existing clients for upgrades along with prospecting via the phone,...

For some reason sleeping last night didn't go that well. I worked late and by the time I finished last nights blog my mind was running at full speed as I tried to get to to sleep. Too many deals in my head! Last night my wife mentioned that she wanted to go see our granddaughter today. Am I bad guy? All I thought about was how much I wanted to get done today. I had a 1PM appointment that I moved to 3PM with a net new suspect late yesterday. i made the time because it's what we do. This...

Seems every morning is identical to the last one. What keeps flashing through my mine is Bill Murray and Groundhog Day. Still no end in site for the lock down in the tri-state area. The infection rates continue to increase each and every day. Enough about the bad stuff. Let's focus on the good stuff. Today was CRM day and what I called soft prospecting today. The first course of action was to weed out the crap (all the small stuff) and maintain a better focus on those larger accounts. I...

Every now and then we have one of those days. When I'm waiting for a deal to develop I'll calling it "waiting for the ball to travel". Let the ball get deeper before you hit that homer. Today was one of those days that I waited for the ball to travel. What I mean by that is that I took a much needed mental day from prospecting. Today was a perfect day for that since I had four meetings on tap. One was our weekly sales TEAMS meeting and the other three were with prospects. In addition I had...

During the month of April we posted 66 blog and videos. Special thanx to Ray and Larry for their contributions. In my twenty years of hosting this site I've never seen this much inaction from the copier manufacturers. Just today I heard from an unnamed source (frak I always wanted to write that), that XBS former Global has axed up to 50% of their Market Place Presidents. A few days ago there was a another thread about lay-offs from Kyocera. Really? Does it really need to be this way? When...

Tomorrow is going to be awesome! Finally some sun and some warmth with temps in the seventies, we might be a little cooler at the beach but I'll take it over the cold and damp days of late. Tonight's going to be a really short blog, it's late and I'm beat plus I'm looking to get a head start on tomorrow. Two meetings were on tap for today. One of the meetings was to move a BDR opportunity closer to the finish line which we did. My other meeting was with a Municipal IT DM to ask some...

Thirty-seven business days now since I was optioned to working from my home office. The average number of selling days is twenty-two per month. Five days from now it will be two solid business months and 66% of the quarter. Our fearless and blessed Governor just extended his Executive Order for his Emergency Act for another thirty days in the State of New Jersey. I'm kinda torn about this now, 30 more days of working from home could be a good thing since I'm on such a roll and who wants to...

So much went on today and I'm not sure where to start. I'm thinking I won't get back to full time prospecting until next week and that's because I've be digging to try and hit that magical number of 200K for May. As of today I have about 30K in opportunities that could close in the next 2 days. After that it's going to be a struggle, however after tomorrow there are still eleven selling days in the month for me. What's good about the eleven days is that I still have more than 50% of the...

Four things you should do tomorrow. 1). Toss your toothbrush. Get a new one with a plastic cover! 2). Start cleaning your cellphone twice a day 3). Start changing the pillow case on your bed everyday and wash in hot water. 4). Start cleaning your computer keyboard or tablet screen twice a day. 5). Use the speakerphone on your cellphone or landline as much as possible to minimize contact with your face.

Have you ever finished a day and everything was a blur? Kind of how I felt after I clocked out about 6PM. I never been a big drinker and I might indulge once a month but I will be ready to tie one on after we've emerged from these uncertain times. Yesterday I made the first contact with an existing client via email to alert them to recent research that I completed about reducing their total annual costs. Those costs included the lease and the maintenance & supplies. The reply was "yes,...

Tuesday the 23rd of June marks the end of my sales quarter. For me there are three days left to see if I can hit my goal of $300K for the quarter. What I can tell you is that it's not looking that good as of today. With the order I received yesterday I'm thinking I'm sitting around $249K. Earlier in the day I emailed out the order docs for the wide format existing upgrade and I'm hoping to have them back tomorrow. I could be at $262K by tomorrow and then it's the two days left to the wire.

I had no idea it was 11:30PM! I'll make this a short review since it's so late and there's much to do tomorrow. I received my order for the existing wide format client this AM. Thus I'm around $262k for the quarter. I had some clean up to do with emails in the AM and it was time to leave for the NJ office. Yes, I was back to the office for the first time in 67 days. I needed to print off by side-by-side report in color and a few power point pages for my net new drop-off aka meeting. I'm not...

COVID19 "Remote Working" Day One Hundred and Seven of Selling Copiers Earlier in the week I would have bet the ranch that my forecast for $20K would come to fruition this week. I had the verbal for the $20K mid day on Tuesday, prepared all of the docs on Wednesday because there were a few moving parts to this order. However those best laid plans of mice and men sometimes don't happen. I'm sure my DM was busy with other tasks and the thought of dropping everything so I could get the documents...

COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Thirty-Four of Selling Copiers On Monday of this week which was day 132 I wasn't in a good place. All of the hard work that I put in wasn't going to come to fruition for September. All of the calls, emails, inmails, posting content on Linkedin and my own Jersey Plotters site just didn't get me to where I wanted to be. It was the end of a quarter and a quarter that I had a decent shot to rack up some bonus dollars. In the end I finished with one of...

COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Thirty-Five of Selling Copiers Today was one of those days when you it was non-stop action all day long. I finally finished up about 5 minutes ago with presenting an existing client a creative way to keep their existing copier. (PM me for details) I didn't receive any docs today but had two more clients that want to move forward with new MFP's. One was an existing account that I've been chasing for two years and another is a net new for a small A4...

COVID19 Remote Working Day One Hundred and Seventy-Seven of Selling Copiers Off to the races! I'm now in the last month of the selling year. Just like any other year I find myself behind the eight ball again. After some research today I need to secure about $80K in orders for December in order to meet my annual quota. I have that content/hardware appointment tomorrow at 11AM. I believe this is the 7th meeting we've had in the last 30 days. I'm hoping tomorrows meeting will be the last and we...