Tomorrow my friends at Golden Compass will be hosing a sales teleseminar that will discuss techniques for navigating to the information you need to be successful in sales.

Michael and Sheryl have the gift of making learning fun.  Here are the details:

Information Overload is Killing You: Bullet Proof Your Sales Team with 5 Secret Strategies the other Yahoos Don’t Even Know

Wednesday, April 23rd 2008
2:00pm Eastern / 1:00pm Central / 12:00pm Mountain / 11:00am Pacific

Michael Benidt and Sheryl Kay, Golden Compass

Every sales professional knows how essential it is to be prepared, but who has the time?! According to a recent LexisNexis survey, information overload is driving workers to the brink—and driving sales professionals to drink!

Don’t drown in a sea of information (or alcohol). Instead, join us to:

· Get the skinny on your prospects instantly and with pinpoint precision

· Stay up-to-date without even trying

· Scoop your competition in ways they won’t even see coming

· Find the answers to even your toughest questions

If you are available, you can join us by registering here.  I hope to hear you on the line!

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The Killian Newsletter is out which means another fabulous installment of Cover Letters From Hell.  This edition features some dandies:

…take this full of life, creative, fun, hardworking, quick learner, hands-on, intelligent, good looking, individually and help him by giving him the best possible experience, so he can continue the legacy of provided high level, knock your socks off advertising.

That’s why one should have important letters read – out loud – by someone else.

We’ve always had food-industry clients, and yes, we talk about food a lot, but we’ve never before been ordered to actually be food:

… being a member of the (name withheld) Organization, and, braise yourselves, even participating in a folk dance ensemble for the last 14 years.

Please except this statement and resume as a good sign that I am interested.

Therefore, making it easy to decide on whether or not to meet with me. Given that I will go on…

Oh, you’ve made it easy.

You guys are different. You guys small.

I am an “out of the box” thinker.

… who avoids clichés?

Read the entire thing.

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Yahoo HotJobs offers up a fairly simple article titled 6 Signs Your Job May Be in Jeopardy.  I don’t think there is any revelation within the article.  I also find this revealing:

More than 2 of 3 respondents to a recent Yahoo! poll believe their job is in jeopardy due to the current economic slowdown.

You would think this country has never seen a slowdown before.  Anyway, one of the 6 signs jumps off the page:

Where Have All the Clients Gone?

If the new business team seems to be spinning its wheels, as major clients jump ship and they are not replaced, your job could be on the hit list.

“There is only so long that your boss can be giving you busy work,” says Roberta Chinsky Matuson, president of Northampton, Massachusetts-based Human Resource Solutions. “Eventually, his boss will catch on, and it will be time to go.”

Sales is the lifeblood of any company, isn’t it?  An economic slowdown is a good time to upgrade your sales team since there will be strong salespeople on the street.  Many companies cut their salesforce during economic slowdowns.  Each company’s situation is different, but we always see talented salespeople looking for opportunities during these times.

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