12 Responses to “Aloha Wednesday 6/19”

1. Char Rhodes Says:
   December 27th, 2012 at 9:21 am

   Thank-you! I am determined. ABC- Always Be Closing!
   With Aloha,
   Char

2. Abdul Moghrabi Says:
   March 12th, 2013 at 6:30 am

   I concur with ur claim about ideas without action. The ideas need to have well thought out and clearly articulated plan where expectations are clearly stated on a timeline, budget and resources. The planning of the series of action is critical to ensuring realizing and converting the ideas into enduring realities. One of the goals is operational efficiencies and once those are established, then the sales. Can happen at much lower operational cost and smoother workflows.

3. Char Rhodes Says:
   March 18th, 2013 at 9:17 am

   Listening to your body, and feeling your energy level is a reminder that we must constantly be in tune with what “station” we are at. Meditation helps and the inspiration we get on a daily basis if we tune in, helps create that ” happiness” that keeps us on track! Go for it! Make those sales!

   With Aloha,
   char rhodes

4. Abdul Moghrabi Says:
   April 5th, 2013 at 7:13 am

   Worry is counter-productive. One needs to worry about the mistakes one makes during the day and endeavour to extirpate the causes for these mistakes. Everyday should be a learning experience, success and failure prepares us for the next experience- i.e., sale. We learn more from failure because we have been acculturated to focus on the wrongs and correcting them. Examining the rights and what triggered them might also lead to continued success. Worry about things especially when they are out of one’s control, accomplishes nothing…

5. Abdul Moghrabi Says:
   April 13th, 2013 at 5:40 am

   We, at Rapport, lead by example and always look for ways to improve the conditions of the workplace. The workload gets disperesed evenly across the teams, work schedule accommodates the specific needs, and we are seeing more smiles on employees faces. The camaraderie is building and we are seeing more cooperative modality of work versus competitive and everyone is out for themselves. Synergy is in place and we hope to catapult to new levels on the sales frontier.

6. Matthew Says:
   April 27th, 2013 at 1:06 pm

   I have a similar story with Amazon. It will be interesting how things play out between Amazon and the big box stores over the next 10 years or so. Would would have thought 10 years ago Blockbuster would be a distant memory. Thanks for the article - great stuff!

7. Abdul Moghrabi Says:
   May 2nd, 2013 at 1:11 pm

   Theory precedes reality, and more often than none, people who are able to think in abstract terms, are able to grasp reality on the fly. The details of the reality requires common sense and trustworthy reference- amiss in sales environment. I wouldn’t say that any of it is useless, because if it triggers thought processes that increased intellectual capacities, then it was useful. It may not be applicable in most scenarios of real world situations…

8. Abdul Moghrabi Says:
   May 5th, 2013 at 11:10 am

   Awareness of the between the line and the indiscernible details make one stand out from the rest and facilitate many of the transactions that otherwise would be lost to misconstrued utterances. Reading the blog makes me more attentive to certain aspects of the sales process that I may have tend to overlook or gloss-over. Focus is paramount and it was evident for me how in our yesterdays meeting that our CEO wanted to get a message across but couldn’t, because no one was as attentive to him and was rather self-involved, etc.

9. Abdul Moghrabi Says:
   May 6th, 2013 at 8:05 am

   I like ur Walt Disney comment. I prefer doing things than talking about them.

10. Abdul Moghrabi Says:
    May 13th, 2013 at 9:07 am

    Learn a lot from making mistakes and from mistakes of the others. I keep track of my mistakes and think about them when I ride the bus back home. In most cases, they are preventable, and of course, I should have known better. This is the interesting aspect of the sales arena. There is never an end to the learning and growth. KGB everyday… Also, the unforgiving and ruthless nature of the business coupled with the forgiving the charitable nature of the business where tomorrow offers a new opportunity for doing it right and not repeating the same mistake again…

11. Joan Bowers Says:
    May 13th, 2013 at 10:58 am

    Abdul sure has a great attitude about making mistakes. I hope (for his sake) that he makes a lot more of them. I surely need to make a few more myself.

12. Abdul Moghrabi Says:
    May 20th, 2013 at 2:13 pm

    No doubt that the first impression with the customer is very important. What is the best first impression is a mystery, but one learns to gauge the customer’s level of reception. I learn to react to whatever the customer throws at me, and once I find a little vista into a possible conversation, I drop a line or two. But Ron’s “shut-up, observe, position… and one liners at a time” have worked more than other approaches thus far…

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