THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group The Better Question (2 minute read) Successful people ask better questions and, as a result, receive better answers.” (Tony Robbins) In the early days of information technology development, a well-used phrase was; “ Rubb...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group Pleasure and Pain (2 minute read) Lover, lover, why do you push? Why do you push? Why do you push? Baby baby, did you forget about me? (The Divinyls – Pleasure and Pain, 1985) First developed by Sigmund Freud, the psyc...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group The Benefits of Genuinely Good Intentions (2 minute read) With the start of 2021, and following an uncertain 2020, many people decided to make some form of New Year’s resolution . Popular resolutions include eating healthier, exercising, losi...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group In the Quest for Mastery (2 minute read) “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” (AN EXTRACT FROM ‘INVICTUS’ BY WILLIAM ERNEST HE...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group The Lifelong Learner (2 minute read) “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.” (Colin Powell; Former US Secretary of State) Imagine a philosophy designed to m...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group It’s a fine line we walk (1 minute read) The traffic was ridiculous. The meeting went 15 minutes longer than scheduled. I didn’t see your text. I wasn’t speeding, Officer. Bloody politicians! This could be any number of conve...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group Guiding Lights (2 minute read) Year after year, through all the silent night Burns on forevermore that quenchless flame, Shines on that inextinguishable light! (The Lighthouse, H.W. Longfellow. 1849) When tech’ gian...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group To Fit or Add? Creating and Curating Culture in Teams Is your team culture fixed or flexible? Most managers would suggest that they have quite fixed operational guidelines and that company policies and procedures sh...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group The Cohesive Team (2 minute read) Cohesion – (noun): the action of forming a united whole. “Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress and working together is success.” (Henry Ford) The success of any...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group A SCARF for all Seasons (2 minute read) “Much of our motivation driving social behaviour is governed by an overarching organizing principle of minimizing threat and maximizing reward , and social needs are treated in the bra...
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group Sports and Sales (2 minute read) Just when we needed to disrupt the funk that can seep into our lives during lockdowns and restrictions, along come the Olympics (cue ‘ Hallelujah’ type music). Whether you’re a hardene... Sales
THE MARKETING SALES GROUP PTY LTD, The Marketing Sales Group The Impact of Attitude upon Performance (3 minute read) Is it enough to have good product knowledge, the ability to hold a conversation and a fair bit of charisma to survive in sales? Or does attitude play a key role in your sales success? ...