At a recent Genius Network event I was asked to speak at, I met the amazing Peter Thomas. Peter is a serial entrepreneur who has started and successfully exited over 7 businesses and invested in dozens of others. Most notably, he was the founding partner and chairman of Century 21 Canada Ltd., a real estate company he built to $9 billion in annual sales, employing over 8,000 sales representatives from 400 franchises. The largest real estate network in the country.
Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman of Ogilvy & Mather, has a great analogy of the success of bees survival to the importance of random testing in marketing.
“I don’t like strict adherence to a script,” she said. “I prefer that my SDRs have authentic conversations.”
Achievers need to grow. They need to perpetually do more, make more, accomplish more. A LOT more. For an achiever, success is always just out of reach. Maybe this is you?
Last month we had one of the most in-demand, highly paid performers in the world who many people have never heard of: Oz Pearlman.
Feeling morbid?
Go to the website Death-Clock.org and take the quick quiz to find out the exact day you’re going to leave this earthly plane and take a permanent dirt nap.
On January 22, 1984, an American legend was made. That was the night Hulk Hogan won his first WWF Championship, defeating the Iron Sheik, stripping him of his heavyweight title and launching “Hulkamania,” which was the start of his rise to becoming one of the most well-known and loved celebrities of pop culture.
Twenty-four years ago I worked in sales at a marketing agency here in Nashville that was attempting to develop e-mail broadcasting software. One of the owners discovered I was fast and efficient at finding bugs in the software and well-versed in e-mail and digital marketing. This led to him “popping in” to my office a couple of times of week to “take a minute” to review the latest version of his creation.
We were taught as kids to respond to insults with “Stick and stone may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.”
