Category Archives: Uncategorized

September 7, 2010

How to Become Preferred

You could feel the exitement in my house this morning. First day of school and everyone is ready to go. That was until I turned the ignition key on my car and it just went “click, click, click”. I tried … Continue reading →

1 Comment

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Motivational Quotes, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as Auto, Automotive, Brad, Canada, Car, Coach, Consultant, Customer Service, Double B Automotive, Guelph, mechanic, Ontario, Richard Elmes, Sales, Sales Trainer, Selling, Service, The Difference, The Sales Dating Guy, Training

May 25, 2010

Motivational Quote: Handling Expectations

“I can only do what I can do. I never get frustrated with expectations from everyone else. I just know I go out there and give everything I have, and if that’s not good enough, then it’s not good enough.” … Continue reading →

Leave a Comment

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Leadership, Motivational Quotes, Presentations, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as Barriers, Business, Car, Cars, Danika, Danika Patrick, David Letterman, Daytona, Do, Drive, Driver, Effort, Elmes, Expectations, fast, Female, frustrated, Frustration, Girl, give it, GoDaddy.com, Good, good enough, Guru, Handling Expectations, Honda, Hope, Indianapolis 500, Indy 500, IndyCar, Inspirational Quote, Inspirational Quotes, Inspire, Letterman, Lose, Marketing, Motivational Quote, Motorola, NASCAR. Nascar, Open Wheel, Oval, Patrick, Quote, Race Car Driver, Rich, Richard Elmes, Sales, Sales Dating, Speed, spokesperson, Stock Car, Success, The Sales Dating Guy, Track, Win, Woman

May 10, 2010

Motivational Quote: Perspective in the middle of a challenge

This has been a rough day!!! Today I heard about a relative who was recently diagnose with Colin Cancer, two friends whose marriages are breaking down, a friend whose husband tried to commit suicide, a friend whose mother-in-law passed away. So … Continue reading →

Leave a Comment

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Husbands, Leadership, Marriage, Motivational Quotes, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as 2010, Appreciate, Author Unknown, break down, Canada, Cancer, Challenge, challenges, Day, dedicated, Elmes, Friend, Frustration, Funeral, God, grief, Guelph, heard, Marketing, Marriage, May 11, mother-in-law, Ontario, Perspective, pray, Richard, Richard Elmes, Rough day, Sales, Sales Dating Guy, Sex, suicide, today

April 30, 2010

Motivational Quote: The Will of a Champion

“A champion is one who gets up… even when he (or she) can’t.” – Jack Dempsey, Champion Boxer

Leave a Comment

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Husbands, Leadership, Marriage, Motivational Quotes, Presentations, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as Builders, Business, Canada, challenges, Champion, Coach, Consultant, Determination, Elmes, get up, Guelph, Guy, Jack Dempsey, Marketing, Ontario, Relationships, Rich, Richard Elmes, Sales, Sales Reps, sales success, speakers, Success, The Sales Dating Guy, Will, winners

February 22, 2010

Motivational Quote: Olympic Adversity

This quote is dedicated to the Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey Team after losing 5-3 to USA. “You may not be the champion of the day, but how you deal with adversity can still make you a winner.” – Richard Elmes, … Continue reading →

Leave a Comment

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Leadership, Marriage, Motivational Quotes, Presentations, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as 2010, 2010 Olympics, Adversity, Brodeur, Callahan, Canada, Champions, Deal, Doughty, Gold Medal, Hockey, Inspiration, Inspirational Quote, men's hockey, Miller, Miller Time, Motivation, Motivational Quote, Olympics, Pronger, Quote, Rafalski, Richard Elmes, Sales Dating Guy, United States, USA, Vancouver 2010 Olympics, winner

February 4, 2010

Motivational Quote: Connecting with your Customers

“If you make a sale, you can earn a commission. If you make a friend, you can earn a fortune.” -Jeffrey Gitomer, Author / Speaker / Consultant http://www.gitomer.com/

1 Comment

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Motivational Quotes, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as Author, Business Consultant, Buy Gitomer, Canada, Commission, Consultant, earn, fortune, Friend, Gitomer, Gitomer.com, Guelph, Jeffrey Gitomer, Marketing, Ontario, Richard Elmes, Sale, Sales, Sales Coach, Sales Trainer, Salesman, Selling, Speaker, Success, The Sales Dating Guy

January 15, 2010

Is it a pitch or a presentation?

There was an interesting conversation this morning on Facebook between three excellent professional speakers (I would highly recommend each one of them) about the difference between sales pitches and sales presentations. Kelley Robertson http://www.kelleyrobertson.com/ It’s a sales presentation, not a … Continue reading →

Leave a Comment

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Presentations, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as Alberta, benefactor, Benefit, Burlington, Business, Business Consultant, Calgary, Canada, Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, CAPS, companies, Consultant, conversation, Customer-focused, Customers, Difference, Elmes, Facebook, Fun, Guelph, http://www.richardelmes.com, Interesting, Kelley Robertson, Kit Grant, Lose-Lose, marketing consultant, Ontario, pet peeve, Professional Speaker, Professional Speakers, Public Speaker, Recommend, Richard, Richard Elmes, richardelmes.com, Sales, Sales Coach, Sales Manager, Sales Performance, Sales pitch, Sales Presentation, Sales teams, Sales Trainer, Sales Trainers, Salesmen, Salesperson, Selling, Solution, Solution focus, Toastmasters, Toastmasters International, Win-Win

December 19, 2009

Patience is a Virtue… Especially when Christmas Shopping

To all those shoppers who are rushing out to the stores to finish their shopping, scrambling to find an empty parking spot and then fighting the crowds to pick up the perfect gift and then waiting in long checkout lines to … Continue reading →

2 Comments

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as Alive, Attitude, Behaviour, Bill McGlashen, Canada, Car, cases, checkout, Christmas, Christmas Shopping, Clerk, Clerks, consumer, courteous, Customer, Customer Service, Customers, dignity, Drive, embarrased, embarrassing, endless, Experience, Fighting, Frustration, Gifts, Guelph, Inspiration, lines, List, mall, malls, Marketing, Ontario, Parking, parking lot, parking space, Patience, Perfect, Pleasant, Polite, Politeness, Positive, Preperation, presents, Quote, rushing, Sales, scrambling, Selling, shopping, Store, store clerks, stores, virtue, Xmas

November 25, 2009

Why Dating is Like Software Sales

Here is another example of the Sales Dating Mindset in this blog post by Saumil Mehta If you’ve ever worked in an enterprise software company at the same time as being single, maybe you’ve noticed the similarities between dating and … Continue reading →

5 Comments

Filed under Blogroll, Human Dynamics, Richard Elmes, Sales, Uncategorized

Tagged as ABC, Always be closing, Blog, blog post, burueaucratic, calling, Canada, Computers, Consultant, Consulting, corporate sales, dates, Dating, Dating Guy, dating mantra, first date, first dates, fixed, folks, Friend, Girl, Girls, goodnight, Guelph, Guest blog post, inside sales, internal, internal politics, kiss, Lead Generation, makeout, match.com, Meeting, Mindset, Ontario, Philosophy, Pipeline, Political, Politics, poor, Post, prissy, Professional, Professional Speaker, Return on Investment, Rich, ROI, roomate, Sale, Sales, sales cliche, Sales Dating Guy, Sales Dating Mindset, Sales Meeting, Sales Pipeline, Sales Speaker, Saumil Mehta, Screwed, Selling, Selling Software, session, Silicone Valley, Single, Single man, Software, Software Sales, Speaker, Tech, Technical, The Sales Dating Guy, Trade Show, twit, United States, USA, wrangling