Postcards from the Funny Farm

Before I met my wife I was in a transition work time where I worked sales for Cingular cell phones by night and substitute teaching by day. I was never really that good at sales but it taught me a lot about how to win someone over. Who knows, maybe that’s how I got my wife to marry me :) At any rate, I remember sitting in that cubicle with my stack of sales leads. Sometimes I had to go through twenty calls before a customer would bite. I was offering a renewal contract and a sweet new phone -for free- but not everybody jumped at the opportunity. Some of the leads were old and it sucked to get those because those people were like “huh? who?”

A friend recently gave me the link to Lead Dogs because my dad and brother are both still in sales. I checked it out and I absolutely loved the concept of this service. The mission of the company is simple: getting you good leads. I have had good leads in my career that literally sold the product themselves. When you have good leads, sales is like the Woody Allen quote I am wont to utter: “80% of success is showing up.” Since 1994, companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Shell and Orbitz have outsourced to The Lead Dogs to generate, manage and nurture sales leads that turn into revenue. If you are in sales or you know someone in sales, go ahead … make YOUR day by checking out LeadDogs.com

Good luck. Let me know how it goes.