No Stupid Questions

Goal Tracker Quote

How about this as a lead quote for the goal tracker?

"You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not."
- novelist Isabel Allende

JC Penney's version of "That Guy"

JC Penney has created a very clever version of the "That Guy" marketing. Although their "That Guy" isn't ideal, he's more your average Joe. They build an entire interactive website around it called Beware of the Doghouse. I couldn't access it from work, but I've put in a request to IT to get us the right broswer to be able to do so. In the meantime, if you get a chance and have more liberal settings with you IT department at home, it's well worth a couple minutes of your time.

The Importance of Blogging

Watch this 90 second clip of Tom Peters and Seth Godin on the importance of blogging.

One Minute Closer

Here is an oxymoron for you - the one minute closer. Sales is not about the one-liner close, it's about building a relationship, earning the customers trust, and then helping them make an intelligent decision.

Goal Tracker Update

Edits are almost complete. Currently awaiting math, spiff, and commission information which will be received in Mid-January, as well as favorite quotations from the Top 10. Expected delivery date to stores - Mid to late February.
Associates should continue to use their 2008 Goal Trackers into the first quarter of 2009, with Jan- Mar '09 calendars located directly behind December '08.

Eight Steps Update

We now have all Eight Steps cards completed, including the table of content and "how to" section. There are now 34 cards.

The Eight Steps cards will be a part of the It's Different at Helzberg Diamonds manual. The manual will have three sections; 1) It's Different Here (Our Traditions); 2) Moments That Sparkle (Our Passion); Eight Steps (Our Way of Selling).

The first two sections have been written; each of these sections will have 7 or 8 cards. LJS has done a first pass on Moments That Sparkle, but we have enlisted the marketing team to help us with branding, fonts, colors, etc. with these two sections.

Dogs

...are great.

Thank You!

Thank you John for bringing out the blogger in me!!

Welcome Team Members

Thanks for your participation in our new Learning and Performance Blog site. Let me know what you think.