The Picture on the Wall Question

May 26th, 2010

Here is question number two (and my response) to the salesperson's 'would you or would you not' quiz.   Is this something you would do at a first sit-down meeting with a prospective client? 2)  Ask a question about a picture on their office wall. Too hokey? Does it seem to much like a glad-handing salesperson trying too hard to be chatty?  Despite this risk Read More...

The Strategy Question

May 10th, 2010

We're at the beginning of a quiz here at Selling with Creativity.  I am proposing some things a salesperson might do or say at a first meeting with a prospective client.  Here's the first one and my response. 1) What is your company’s overall strategy and what are the three biggest challenges or objectives that the strategy creates for you? I do ask this question Read More...

The First Conversation

May 1st, 2010

This blog is a merger between structured creativity and selling.  There is a natural union between the two.  Since 1993, I have been exploiting that union for myself and for my clients. This blog is perhaps just another iteration of that exploitation.  It is a sales blog, but underpinning everything in it, is structured creativity Read More...