Category: Mindset

Inside the mind of Phil M Jones

The BIG Finish

At the half way point of a year, many a sales person and entrepreneur is starting to determine their fate for the year ahead and may even be working harder on their excuses than they are their extra activities that …

Want a better business? Stop treating it like a child eats a cupcake

You know when you give a cupcake to a child – the part they focus on first is typically the frosting, sprinkles and all the sweet sticky stuff on the top – and in many cases the cake itself is …

Herding Cats – Managing Sales Performance

Every business is dependent upon its ability to attract, secure and retain its customers. Yet managing the sales performance of yourself or your company remains one of the most challenging parts of any business growth story. To help in this …

The only 4 things you need to succeed in an expert business

Tired of the daily barrage of adverts that promise the moon on a stick, the fast track to freedom and share with you the precise strategies required to make millions almost effortlessly with their special insider secrets – I figured …

Living the dream? Behind the scenes as a professional speaker

Wow! In the last 7 days I have been in 5 countries, on 3 continents and living the Jet Set life – the one “so many” people dream of and I think it is important to know that seeing the …

How to be a ‘Professional Mind Maker Upper’

An alternative job title for a salesperson is a ‘Professional Mind Maker Upper’ and you need to get over any fears of rejection and make the rejection happen a little less in your business. Here are 5 different tools to …

How To Get Better At Things

A mistake that many people make is that they spend much of their work time in busy-ness as opposed to business. Just sprinting at tasks and trying to do “EVERYTHING” quickly is a strategy for a crisis, is rarely sustainable …

The Social Devolution of Business

Since the mainstream takeover of the social networks in 2008 every small business owner has been nudged, persuaded and cajoled into adopting a presence on all major platforms and for many the results are perhaps not what you may expect. …

Teaching the world to sell

I am 38011 ft in the air and travelling at a speed of 482 mph somewhere over the Atlantic and heading to one of my favorite cities in the world and the flight is basically empty… What I love about …

Top Lessons of 2016

As we all embark on a new year I always find it useful to take a few moments and reflect on the one that has just passed us by and realise what it has taught me. Our experience is what …