I, for one, am ready to say good riddance to 2009.\u00a0 This year was the most difficult I can ever remember in terms of revenue, business and the economy.\u00a0 I suppose the one good thing is that it can only get better!<\/p>\n
However, it is the end of the year and of the decade so I am enjoying the retrospective stories that permeated the media this week.\u00a0 Saleshq.com offers up the top 5 sales stories of 2009<\/a>.\u00a0 One of them stood out to me:<\/p>\n The sales world lost one of its best this year with the death of Billy Mays. One of TV\u2019s most famous pitchmen, Mays was known for his enthusiasm, loud voice, and boisterous demeanor. Mays allegedly died from a lethal arrhythmia of the heart, brought on by heart disease,which was partly caused by cocaine use.<\/p>\n Mays, famous for selling products such as OxyClean and Orange Glo, helped sell over $1 billion in merchandise during his career. Just three months before his death, Mays and his partner, Anthony Sullivan, starred in a show called Pitchmen on Discovery Channel that followed their exploits as sales professionals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n True confession, I watched that Pitchmen<\/em> show on Discovery and was fascinated by it.\u00a0 It did provide a behind-the-scenes look at sales and marketing.\u00a0 Granted, it was for television pitches of new products, but it contained some intriguing, real-world scenarios.\u00a0 It contains a tragic ending with Mays\u2019 early death.<\/p>\n I hope all of you are looking forward to turning the page on this year and jumping into the new decade.\u00a0 It is surely one filled with promise and possibilities. All the best to you this new decade!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I, for one, am ready to say good riddance to 2009.\u00a0 This year was the most difficult I can ever remember in terms of revenue, business and the economy.\u00a0 I suppose the one good thing is that it can only get better! However, it is the end of the year and of the decade so I am enjoying the retrospective stories that permeated the media this week.\u00a0 Saleshq.com offers up the top 5 sales stories of 2009.\u00a0 One of them stood out to me: The sales world lost one of its best this year with the death of Billy Mays. One of TV\u2019s most famous pitchmen, Mays was known for… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49,5],"tags":[1485,1484,1486,1487],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-zP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2222,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2221\/revisions\/2222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}