Even More Sales Lessons from the Campaign

If you’re a student of politics as I am, this primary campaign has become really exciting.
Last evening Obama walked away with a big victory.  Clinton supporters will say that he won in North Carolina with fewer votes than the polls two weeks ago suggested he would.  And, that Clinton won Indiana, a neighboring state to [...]

More on the Presidential Sales Campaign

I spent some time today on the phone with Grainne Rothery, who writes for the Ireland-based Marketing Age magazine.  I was being interview for an upcoming article on competitive selling.
It didn’t take long before we were discussing the U.S. presidential race.  They are not only very interested in our politics in Ireland, but very well [...]

Selling = Politics and Politics = Selling

Geoffrey James writes a great blog.  I enjoy reading it, plus I most often learn something. 
Although it’s more targeted to sales people than sales leaders, Geoffrey knows a lot about selling, is very well informed about a lot of things, and is a really good writer.
Last week he wrote a seriously gutsy post about whether the U.S. should bail out of Iraq.  A [...]