Sales Is Digging Through Shit for Nickels

It's a numbers game.  That is what you hear all the time in most sales literature and training.  Basically, it means there is no real way to determine who is going to buy and who isn't so you just need to keep looking, and asking, and eventually you'll find the one that will buy.  Quite frankly I find that idea an insult to intelligence.  Yea I understand the logic it just seems more like something the upper level executives of an organization say to keep the idiot sales force plodding along.  It's the same logic used by Generals in the military.  Throw enough troops at the problem and surely enough will survive to achieve the objective.  Sales is the only aspect of an organization where failure on such a large scale is tolerated.  Think about it.  In the manufacturing side, would they ever accept a 20% success ratio where 80% of the things you made were defective?  Would even the mail room accept that only 20% of the mail they send out gets to its intended target.  Enough said, I could go on all day...sales is just a shit job for people with marginal intelligence and a desire to have their self worth affirmed regularly by strangers.

Phone Aggrevation

I do just about all my work on the phone as far as selling and working with clients.  I got fixated on hand sets the other day.  Trying to work out the perspective and look.  It's like trying to draw a car to me.  I just don't find it easy.

What got me stuck is someone asked me to work on a Saturday and it was all I could do not to scream at them, "Hell NO!  It's football season."  So I wanted to draw this quick sketch but it turned into a full page effort to perfect the handset.

Worms - Remember Disecting Them In High School

More worm gags.  Now your entire 10th grade rant about when the hell are you ever going to use the stuff you had to memorize and learn in biology when you were dissecting those giant earth worms has been all blown to hell.  Cause today, yes, you will need to know some worm anatomy to get the gag.

All You Need To Do Is Follow The Worms

Well I promote myself as being just a little bit quirky.  Here's some more evidence of that personality flaw.  Sometimes I get an idea and I just keep spinning things off of it. (kind of like an ear worm?) Evidently the "Early Bird Gets The Worm" is one of those ideas.  Yesterday I drew more worms than I've ever drawn.  I don't know if I'm done but here is one page from my doodle pad with a few puns or twist on the "early bird gets the worm" phrase.

"All you need to do is follow the worms.", Pink Floyd, Waiting For The Worms

The Early Bird REALLY Gets The Worm. Whoa, Dude That's Deep!

"The early bird gets the worm".  Now what does that really mean?  I'm not so sure it really means the bird actually "gets" as in catches the worm.  I really think it is deeper, as in the bird understands the worm.  He really gets him.  The early bird and worm are on the same plain of thought.  They are hip to one another.  The worm is a really deep, organic being.   Truely in touch with nature.  The bird has the unigue perspective of the big pictures, a bird's eye view of the world.  Together they understand how everything fits together.   It is this small and big picture views that make their relationship whole.

Milestone Acknowledged 10,000 Views

I passed the 10,000 blog views over the weekend.  

Hooray for me!!!  See how excited I am?  

Thanks to all who have visited, who keep coming back and I'm looking forward to sharing more with you.

It took 3 years and over 225 post.  

I have faith the next 10,000 will come quicker. (at least by a day)