by Alex Goldfayn | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog
If you make a proactive phone call to a customer or prospect every once in a while — when you happen to think of it — each call is a snowflake that falls to the ground and melts. But if you make two proactive phone calls a day, you’re making more than 500 calls...
by Alex Goldfayn | Feb 3, 2020 | Blog
As far as sales communications go, I think the text message gets a bad reputation. I find that a text message is a far better pathway for communicating with customers and prospects than sending an email, which is basically the same as doing nothing at all. Did the...
by Alex Goldfayn | Jan 31, 2020 | Blog
Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots and one of the most successful coaches in the history of any sport, has a simple saying: Do your job. In football, the job is to be strong, be healthy, and know your assignment. You go to the weight room most days to...
by Alex Goldfayn | Jan 28, 2020 | Blog
How many times have you avoided something for weeks or months that ended up taking 10 or 15 minutes to do? Maybe it was calling the prospect. Maybe it was going to see the customer. Maybe it was finally — finally — sending that promotional piece. Stop reading right...
by Alex Goldfayn | Jan 13, 2020 | Blog
I am shopping for additional disability insurance, and the local agency I work with here had me talk to their disability insurance specialist. For the first 10 minutes of the call, this guy talked without interruption. He would ask me questions and then answer them...
by Alex Goldfayn | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog
As the new year begins, let us resolve to sell proactively in 2020. Let us resolve to not only answer the incoming phone calls of complaining customers but to also proactively call happy customers who we do not hear from frequently. Let us resolve to not only jump...
