Comments on: The Best $100 You Ever Spent in Sales

By: Thomas Pind

Thomas Pind — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:16:57 +0000

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.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:48:49 +0000

Jim, I agree. It’s amazing how difficult it is to imagine life without a GPS!

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:47:16 +0000

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.

By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:05:52 +0000

The best $100 I ever spent in sales is for a GPS for the car. What a time saver and useful tool!

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:24:49 +0000

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!

By: patricia

patricia — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:13:04 +0000

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.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:28:06 +0000

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”

By: tim

tim — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:42:15 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:04:19 +0000

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.

By: John Alwi

John Alwi — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:58:04 +0000

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.