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The Best $100 You Ever Spent in Sales
We had a little fun and asked fellow sales people about what they considered the best $100 they ever spent.
Here are a few of the responses. Comments are open – what has been the best $100 you ever spent?
- Donuts for the guys in production – used to do this regularly and thoroughly enjoyed sharing with them the progress in sales that my team was delivering. Funny enough never had a problem getting shipments out of the door and was often alerted well in advance to do something about it if an ingredient shortage was going to cause problems. – Hamish Taylor
- Throwing a beach party for a group of nurses [medical sales] to open the sales door, have some fun, and introduce a new product I was selling. Infusing fun and differentiating yourself is always a good idea in sales (at least that’s my personal sales style). I even wore a floppy beach hat … I looked ridiculous but I didn’t care. The customer got a kick out of it and they definitely remember me. – Tracy Price
- Buying the best headset i could get so my phone calls were clear – nothing is as unprofessional as static or dropped voices/having to constantly ask someone to repeat themselves. – Kira Stone
- The best $100 I ever spent is on our group admin. First, we all know that admins are the gateway to EVERYTHING! Treat them with respect and kindness and they will take care of you. That being said, you must return the favor. In NY, a Bliss gift card is gold to any woman. So a $100 gift card from Bliss, to tell our amazing group admin that I appreciated keeps the flow of business going! – Amie E. McCarthy
- Audio tapes and CDs – Earl Nightingale’s “Lead the Field”, Fred Hermann’s “Keep It Simple, Salesman”, Zig Ziglar’s “Secrets of Closing Sales”. – Sam Wee
- The best hundred dollars I ever spent was treating my boss (several years ago) to a round of golf at Doral Country Club (Blue Monster). I was promoted soon after. – Kevin Suarez
- Several times, I have made donations of $50 to $100 to a church, or a charitable organization that I was at the time working on a proposal for. I did not make a big deal out of it, I just made out a check, or went online to make a donation. I am not sure if a few times it was just Karma, or if it was actually noticed, but pretty much every time I won the opportunity I was working on. – Frank Napolitano
- For a $50 investment, I was able to take my entire sales team to an event in Boston that featured Donald Trump, Barbara Walters, Brain Tracy, Tom Hopkins etc. My teams results skyrocketed after this meeting. They felt more appreciated, developed better team chemistry and each admitted they learned a thing or two. – Eric Blumenthal
- Buying my first fax machine. – Michelle Trent
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I bought a Birthday cake for one of my staff members and gave it to them during a sales meeting. It relaxed the entire staff and people started talking not about people but to other staff members. This has become a looked forward type of relaxation by everyone and the sales meeting took on a new look. Our sales improved over all and we talk more as a team.
I purchased $100.00 worth of peanuts that I sent to a prospect with a nut attached that read’ “I am going nuts trying to get on your calendar. Can we set aside some time to talk about ……?
I bought a 3G/HSDPA high speed modem for my laptop, so I am connected to my customers and prospect all the time through Messenger.
Buying a Career Coach.
When I became a Director of Sales, a former client of mine was the VP of Sales for a Fortune 100 company. I spent the $100 on his green fee at a very nice country club. It was the best investment that I have ever made in my career. I now have a friend, and career coach that I golf with monthly. (And he buys the rounds!)
Moral of the story… developing relationships with your current clients can pay HUGE dividends long after you’ve moved up the ladder.
my wife have the blackberry pearl the glue swells from the inside of the phone on the manufacturing side we have been to the t-mobile store that we purchased it from we have a warranty on the phone (pearl blackberry) we talked to a supervisor, Aaron thats a manager in that dept he was the most unprofessional person in the world blacberry could have hired i would advise any of my friends or anybody i run into never to purchase a blackberry the company do not stand behide there product!!!!!they would rather you go with out a phone than replace their broken product do to there fault!and the phone is insured weither thru them or t-mobile its so sad a sad day in america when a top company try to penny pinch the small guy
A small mp3 player and every good audio book from the Seattle Library I can find! There are many good ones.
Audio tapes and CDs – Earl Nightingale’s “Lead the Field”, Fred Hermann’s “Keep It Simple, Salesman”, Zig Ziglar’s “Secrets of Closing Sales”
The best $100 ever spent in sales for me was when I discovered I can still do sales even as a newbie on the internet. I always look for an internet business box, where everything is pretty much laid out for you from start to finish in order to have a successful business sale. It pretty much takes the guess work out when you’re trying to learn. The nice thing about the internet business box is there is one to fit the sales niche of your choice.
Back before my company supported Treos/Blackberries, etc I upgraded my company-paid-for phone to a PDA so I could get e-mails while out of the office. Life changing!
The best $100 I ever spent in sales is for a GPS for the car. What a time saver and useful tool!
The best 100$ I ever spent was for a web meeting solution some years back. That allowed me to arrange pre-meetings online and when I showed up both the customer and I was much more prepared and focused.
It allowed me to sell our solution to customers all over Europe out of Denmark.
I remember that, it was more than $100 but my first Blackberry (back in 2001, b/w screen, email only) was a revolution. People wondered why I was able to respond so quickly to urgent emails.
Jim, I agree. It’s amazing how difficult it is to imagine life without a GPS!