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Attributes of a Great Salesperson
According to smallbizgenius.net, 55% of Americans believe they are capable of starting a business. However, 20% of those businesses fail within the first year, which is a lot. So, why does this happen? Many factors come into play, but, often, the individual did not...
Use Training To Help Your Clients
If you're like me, you get asked questions from clients during each interaction. Some can be personal such as “What did you think of that game last night?” Other questions can be very detail-oriented about business. At times, it might feel like clients believe you...
Ten-Minute Trainer: Top 5
Earlier this summer, P1 Learning's Speed Marriott and the Swagger Institute's Derron Steenbergen launched “Speed & Swagger: Ten-Minute Trainer,” a weekly video training series designed to educate and motivate media sellers and managers during these challenging...
New Training Tracks From P1 Learning!
We live in a society that is constantly growing and evolving. What are you doing to ensure that you are staying on top of the latest trends and topics for your career? Where do you start? You could go online to search for information but how do you know that what you...
First Impressions Are Everything
During one of my favorite podcasts, the host discussed how people don’t get a chance to make the first impression of themselves in person — in both sales and in dating. This is all increasingly done online, with the pandemic moving individuals to working remotely...
How to Recruit The Next Generation
We all know that attracting the next generation to a career in media sales is an ongoing challenge. But, how do you get individuals to want to come and work for you across all other industries? For the last three (3) years I have been overseeing the P1 Futures Program...
Time Management For Sellers
Do you ever feel like you have too much to do and too little time? Join the club! You have to research sales prospects, keep in touch with leads, and have that document over to your boss (that they requested last week) turned in by noon…. Ugh! Listen we've all been...
How To Provide Great Employee Onboarding
At one point or another everyone has to be the “new hire” within a company. Do you remember how you felt? Did the company make you feel welcomed or did you feel awkward during your first week/month working there? With hiring on the rise and individuals having so many...
Closing The Sale
It's really quite simple... people need to purchase both goods and services to help run their own businesses. So why do our customers and/or potential customers hesitate to buy from us? On the flip side for our own businesses to survive we need to sell our advertising...