Author: Роман Петров — 786

4 Feb 2025

Sales

Scam

Salespeople are always taught to speak the language of the customer, embrace their values, and place the customer at the center of the universe. This seems to be true. However,…

4 Feb 2025

Sales · Sex

Marry me!

No matter how the proposal is made—whether as a post on a blog, a billboard, a declaration of love at a family gathering, a message written in the sky by…

4 Feb 2025

Human Resource Management · Sales

Repel

By request. In the previous post I mentioned in passing how pointless it is to propose to a married woman who doesn’t know you. First let me add that there…

4 Feb 2025

Sales

Well, about the prices…

It’s really scary when a customer asks, “Okay, how much does it cost?” before you’re sure that the timing is right for that question. The topic hasn’t been fully explored,…

4 Feb 2025

Management · Quotes

High financial policy, or the point of indifference

(Parkinson’s Laws) Cyril N. Parkinson In high finance, there are two types of people: those who have a lot of money and those who have nothing. A millionaire knows exactly…

4 Feb 2025

Sales

Whose money is easier to spend?

Own or someone else’s? This question sometimes takes center stage when comparing B2B and B2C sales. Some argue that spending one’s own money is harder than spending someone else’s, which…

4 Feb 2025

Management · Sales

Control or Anarchy

This is a response to a request to share my opinion on CRM systems. When the question arises about what is better — complete control or total anarchy — the…

4 Feb 2025

Marketing · Quotes · Rework

About trust

One can ponder for a long time about whom to trust and whom not to. I’ve come to realize that sometimes you can trust a passing stranger more than someone…

4 Feb 2025

Leadership · Management · Motivation

“The last ‘Chinese’ warning as a tool for motivation.”

Case 1 Recently, in a familiar company, the sales director announced to some regional directors that if they did not improve their sales performance by May 1, they would be…

4 Feb 2025

Human Resource Management · Motivation

Employee motivation: what can be done for a small budget.

Interview with Roman Petrov. Journal “Labor Law,” 04/2010 — So, Roman, you are on the pages… of my blog You talk a lot about employee motivation. However, does it exist?the…

4 Feb 2025

Marketing · Quotes · Rework

Learning is light.

You can run promotional campaigns. You can hire salespeople. You can act as a sponsor. However, your competitors are doing the same. How can this help you stand out from…

4 Feb 2025

Marketing

Delicious with Boris Burda

You’ve probably heard of Boris Burda, Andrei Makarevich, or Yulia Vysotskaya. They are certainly not the best chefs, and there are undoubtedly many good chefs we simply don’t know about…

4 Feb 2025

Management · Motivation

Press releases are spam.

What do you call an announcement sent to hundreds of strangers in the hope that one of them will take notice? Spam. That’s exactly what press releases are: announcements that…

4 Feb 2025

Sales

Hints

Part 1. Fractals. A good rule to follow when looking for new clients is to understand that you should seek clients not one by one, but in groups. When you…

4 Feb 2025

Management · Marketing · Sales

Entrance and exit

— Ara, why are they trying to break down that door, but no one is going into this one?— Because there is the entrance, and here is the exit. Translation…

4 Feb 2025

Marketing

We are entertained, and we don’t even think about it.

There’s a video going around on the internet about a chicken that runs like a penguin. The owners claim that it has never You can’t make soup out of her.…

4 Feb 2025

Management · Marketing

Who is the client and who is the seller?

Clients To sell, you need to understand exactly what you are selling. To understand what you are selling, you need to know who your customer is. For example, we produce…

4 Feb 2025

Management · Motivation · Quotes

Fines and kindergarten

Original article: http://eduardk.livejournal.com/294267.html Original scientific work: Uri Gneezy en Aldo Rustichini, ‘A Fine Is A Price’, Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 29, Issue 1 (2000). Full text. Abstract The deterrence…

4 Feb 2025

Quotes

The economic effect of “sticking” in nine experiments

People often consciously choose the worst possible outcome for themselves. They are guided not by rational economic principles or other non-monetary factors, but by what is known in economics as…

4 Feb 2025

Politics

About love

What is love? The ancient Greeks had several words to describe “love.” There was eros (romantic or sexual love), agape (selfless love), and ludus (playful love). However, there is a…