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How Introverts Who Sell Can Rev Up Sales by Slowing Down

January 20, 2016 by Pat 13 Comments

Just as Nixon enacted Auto Speed Reduction Day for energy conservation in 1973, introverts in business who sell may want to declare their own Sales Speed Reduction day for energy conservation. Extroverts, more like solar powered items, continually and speedily energize by doing things.

How Introverts Who Sell Can Rev Up Sales by Slowing Down

Extroverts, more like solar powered items, continually and speedily energize by doing things. Introverts, more like

Introverts, more like flashlights, need to stop and replace batteries to keep on going.

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Filed Under: introvert, sales tip Tagged With: introvert, networking, sales planning, shy

How Can Introvert Salespeople Actually Find Happy Hour Bliss?

October 10, 2015 by Patricia Weber 4 Comments

Some history claims that the first happy hour was held in a local pub in Ireland.

Others attribute that this before dinner reduced price drinks event started in the 1920’s as the Navy’s slang for its on-ship entertainment.

Regardless what is true, introverts and extroverts would design a Happy Hour quite differently.

How Can Introvert Salespeople Actually Find Happy Hour Bliss?

Originally published on: Nov 23, 2008
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Filed Under: energy, introvert, sales training, teleclass Tagged With: career for introverts, networking, sales reluctance

Sales Training – Daily Recovery Important for Introverts

October 3, 2015 by Patricia Weber 11 Comments

While autos can go a day or sometimes more for a fill up, introverts who sell will discover accelerated sales results with a daily routine centered on three areas: release techniques, comfortable marketing activities and targeting those activities to identified prospects.

Sales Training – Daily Recovery Important for Introverts

Originally published on: Oct 15, 2008

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Filed Under: introvert, sales Tagged With: career for introverts, limiting beliefs, sales coach, sales reluctance, top salespeople

#Romanceawarenessmonth How to love or fall in love again with your work, or business

August 5, 2015 by Patricia Weber 12 Comments

Remember the movie “Romancing the Stone”? Whether you do or not is fine because this is not a blog post about the movie. This post is meant to be a metaphor of this phrase jewelers use to refer to a step to prepare a gem for use in jewelry.

How do we romance our business to turn our unique, maybe unimposing stone into some more attractive and significant jewel?

No matter what model or size your work or business is, it might be the time to cut or polish a stone into a jewel.

#Romanceawarenessmonth How to love or fall in love again with your work, or business

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Filed Under: customer service, entrepreneur, holidays, introvert, relationships, sales

Charge Up Your Introvert Voice: interview with Donna Price

February 21, 2015 by Patricia Weber 35 Comments

Did she really ask that?

Did I really say that?

We met on LinkedIn and if you are on LinkedIn you know how these things happen.

Meet Donna Price, Business Coach, Innovator, and Facilitator, who was intrigued by my book Communication Toolkit for Introverts and invited me to be a guest on her BlogTalkRadio channel.

It was interesting learning her take on introversion too.

As much as I rehearse a presentation, I am always ready to mix up something I hadn’t planned to say. You can fast forward to any of these particular and approximate minute designations (minutes in) for key points in the conversation.