Sales Tips from Angelina Jolie

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

One of the featured resources on Rainmaker Resources is David Maister’s series of podcasts. In his Business Masterclass episode “Cultivate the Habits of Friendship” he shares a lovely anecdote about building relationships that bears repeating:
The actress Angelina Jolie was interviewed on television and asked if she had to like the characters she was portraying in [...]

Rejection – sometimes it really is personal

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

It’s one of the oldest sayings in sales – “rejection isn’t personal”. But sometimes, more frequently than we’d care to admit, it really is personal. As salespeople we need to accept that sometimes people may just not like us or get on with us, and learn to live with that.