Friday, July 3, 2015
Are You Biding Your Time?
Life throws us so many curve balls that we are frequently left to feel as if we are completely off track. On our worst days, it seems as if we are floundering and begin to believe our ideas are useless. But for some strange reason, even with others deeming us as “crazy”, we continue.
Why is it that we continue?
I believe it stems from the secret to success. That secret is to continue doing what you love, no matter what, and no questions asked. If you don’t have all of the pieces or knowledge, but the joy is found in the work, you will strive to put your puzzle together, whether it’s a 12-piece or a mega puzzle. You will strive to piece it all together by honing your skills, in multiple ways, until a new direction is found.
Years ago, I envisioned helping communities far and wide but the effort began locally with training groups of job seekers on how to sell themselves on interviews. Involvement with social media expanded the effort somewhat, whereby I’m able to share business development and sales insights globally. But being a driven salesperson type, I wanted to do more.
It’s fortuitous that Sam Williams II and I met that led us to chatting about Text4Help It is designed to provide immediate help for personal or business reasons via texting from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., seven days per week. In conversation, I learned the idea behind the service is to launch a nationwide effort to stop bullying. The organization is encouraging schools to take part and is seeking help from organizations to help fund the effort in order to allow all children to feel safe at school. Serving children is the bigger picture I was seeking, and jumped in to help.
True Story
But I can also identify with the issues at hand. Never before shared, in my youth, I once wandered into an unsafe area. The “wanna-be” attackers were sorry they ever approached me as I had them headed toward the hospital soon after. So I can easily relate to the fact that so many women and children are abused and bullied. Even worse, a small percentage of this population will give into suicide.
Community Effort
Instead, let’s change this scenario by being of the mindset to join forces in order to stop all of the nonsense. Join us in helping our brothers and sisters, and those generations of the age to learn better ways. We are open to suggestions for making this a national effort with growth potential. Please visit www.text4help.org And be certain to check out the www.antibullysquad.org too.
Helping one another and serving communities well leads to the Smooth Sale!
Books For Sales Strategies:
Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results, Sourcebooks
HIRED! How to Use Sales Techniques to Sell Yourself On Interviews, Career Press
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Elinor Stutz, CEO of Smooth Sale, delivers inspirational keynotes at conferences and authored two books: The International Best-Selling book, “Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results”, and community service led to the writing of her second best-selling book, “HIRED! How to Use Sales Techniques to Sell Yourself On Interviews.”
CEO World Magazine named Stutz as one of “The brightest sales minds to follow on Twitter” 2015 and 2014, while both Inside View and Open View Labs designated her as a Top Sales Influencer. RiseBoarders continually rates Stutz as a top sales guru. Stutz is featured on the cover of the March 2015 Sales and Service Excellence e-Magazine: http://bit.ly/1GXNsga
Stutz contributed to Microsoft e-books, her blog is distributed among companies, and numerous articles appeared in AllBusiness.com and U.S. News and World Report. Her sales seminar was filmed for Eduson.TV headquartered in Russia. Stutz consults and speaks worldwide.
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