Jonathan Farrington’s Blog

I don’t know if you remember “chain mail” when you were a kid? You would receive a letter from someone you had never heard of and you had to write to five of your friends to keep the chain going – if you broke it, the consequences were too horrible to contemplate.

Well if you think about it, this was the earliest form of viral marketing and it is now commonplace on the net.

My good friend and fellow Top Sales Expert, Jill Konrath of Selling To Big Companies, just tagged me to share 8 random things about myself, so here they are:

1. I have just launched the Sales Practitioners Group and the first initiative – Sales Leadership Zone will be live on September 11th (Full details next week)
2. I have an intolerance to lactose, which is a real pain as I love cheese!
3. I cycled over 2000 miles last year.
4. I am a sports fanatic and had the opportunity to play both soccer and cricket professionally.
5. I have supported Manchester United for over 50 years.
6. I wish I had studied harder at school as my dream was to go to Oxford/Cambridge University. Now I am living my dream through my son Joe
7. I am a member of MENSA but I only attended one meeting and left after ten minutes because the people were so humourless and boring
8. Although I am a confirmed Francophile, my dream is to live permanently in Cape Town (Watch this space!)

Now, I pass on the tags to:

• Andrea Nierenberg – World-class networking guru and global traveller
• Kevin Eikenberry – Remarkable friend and exceptionally talented author
• Chris Knight – “The Man” – Mr EzineArticles and entrepreneur extraordinaire
• Douglas Hanna –  Customer relationship guru and my ex-editor at b5
• George Petri – “Sales Visionary” and savvy businessman

Check out their sites. These are all really smart individuals.

And now more about Jill Konrath and Sales Shebangs – but to ensure that you receive correct information, let Jill tell you all about this sales event of the year herself………….

A Community for Women Who Sell!

Sales Shebang is for all the smart, savvy women who sell.

We’re here to help you be even more successful—perhaps even unstoppable!

Attend our first ever conference on November 5-6th in Minneapolis. You’ll get fresh ideas, unique insights, inspiration and practical information to help you:

• Capture lucrative new accounts.
• Accelerate your sales cycle.
• Create value for your customers.
• Catapult past your competitors.
• Do all this without going crazy!

You’ll learn all this from an all star cast of top sales experts who know what it takes to achieve extraordinary success. Plus the connections you make will be worth their weight in gold.

The Sales Shebang kicks off the night before with a comedy performance not to be missed! You’ll want to come early, enjoy the fun and start networking..

You can find full details by clicking on the banner in the left hand column.

That’s it for this week - have a great w/e wherever you are in the world! - JF

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