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Achieving Significance

In your professional sales career




             Stephen Lewis © 2008
Selling is more
psychological than anything else.




            Stephen Lewis © 2008
Based on research of over
 8,000 buyers:

The Midwest is the most price
 sensitive!



             Stephen Lewis © 2008
Self doubt is a learned trait.




           Stephen Lewis © 2008
A players:
Orchestrate the sales and referral
process

B players:
kill good ideas and programs


             Stephen Lewis © 2008
You are going to do 1 of 2 things
   in your professional career.
    You are going to work for
     wages or work for profit.

 Working for wages will get you
  paid; working for profit will get
          you wealthy.

              Stephen Lewis © 2008
Information is the new currency.




             Stephen Lewis © 2008
Change
takes courage and sacrifice
 -your level of expectation
       -how you plan
  -how you view yourself

          Stephen Lewis © 2008
Goals




        Stephen Lewis © 2008
In the absence of clearly
 defined goals, we become
strangely loyal to performing
 daily trivia until ultimately we
   become enslaved by it.


            Stephen Lewis © 2008
Develop a stop doing list!




          Stephen Lewis © 2008
Obstacles are those frightening
 things you see when you take
 your eyes off of your goals.
                                    -Henry Ford




             Stephen Lewis © 2008
GSN Top Performers Trait 1

Driven by achievement

 Understand the law of
   self development


          Stephen Lewis © 2008
Formal education will get you a
             job.

Self education will get you rich.

                                     -Jim Rohn


              Stephen Lewis © 2008
GSN Top Performers Trait 2

           Commitment

Commitment is doing the thing you said
  you would do long after the mood in
    which you said it in has left you.


               Stephen Lewis © 2008
The world is full of
underachievers and they love
         company.

If you have a backup plan you
            will fail.

            Stephen Lewis © 2008
Take massive action.




       Stephen Lewis © 2008
GSN Top Performers Trait 3
           Optimism

 Spare me the grim litany of the
  realist; give me the unrealistic
aspirations of the optimist any day!
                                     -Colin Powell


              Stephen Lewis © 2008
Ask stupid questions…




       Stephen Lewis © 2008

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Achieving Significance

  • 1. Achieving Significance In your professional sales career Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 2. Selling is more psychological than anything else. Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 3. Based on research of over 8,000 buyers: The Midwest is the most price sensitive! Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 4. Self doubt is a learned trait. Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 5. A players: Orchestrate the sales and referral process B players: kill good ideas and programs Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 6. You are going to do 1 of 2 things in your professional career. You are going to work for wages or work for profit. Working for wages will get you paid; working for profit will get you wealthy. Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 7. Information is the new currency. Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 8. Change takes courage and sacrifice -your level of expectation -how you plan -how you view yourself Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 9. Goals Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 10. In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it. Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 11. Develop a stop doing list! Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 12. Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take your eyes off of your goals. -Henry Ford Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 13. GSN Top Performers Trait 1 Driven by achievement Understand the law of self development Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 14. Formal education will get you a job. Self education will get you rich. -Jim Rohn Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 15. GSN Top Performers Trait 2 Commitment Commitment is doing the thing you said you would do long after the mood in which you said it in has left you. Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 16. The world is full of underachievers and they love company. If you have a backup plan you will fail. Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 17. Take massive action. Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 18. GSN Top Performers Trait 3 Optimism Spare me the grim litany of the realist; give me the unrealistic aspirations of the optimist any day! -Colin Powell Stephen Lewis © 2008
  • 19. Ask stupid questions… Stephen Lewis © 2008