shopping

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
386b958	They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.	humour humor shopping	Sophie Kinsella
c6e7344	...most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair.	shopping	Douglas Coupland
1aa9523	I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.	shopping	Rachel Cohn
94e38b9	"I can't wear this," she said from inside the dressing room. "It's too small." "Let's see," Nick said. "Come on out." "Get me a bigger size. A lot bigger." Nick opened the door and looked in at Kate. "Whoa," he said on a gush of air. His pupils dilated to the point where his brown eyes were almost totally black, and Kate decided the dress must look better than she'd first thought. "Well?" she asked. "I think I'm in love," Nick said. "But then my brain isn't completely engaged right now. That's not where the blood is flowing." "Too much information" Kate said. "It would have been enough to tell me I look okay." "Honey you look a lot better than okay." "You don't think I look slutty?" "Not at these prices," Nick said."	nick-fox shopping	Janet Evanovich
e521780	The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.	greed tacky shopping	Irvine Welsh
588afaa	[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling	poetry love essay shopping	Anne Carson
181fc05	"We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not "we might have to eat the dog" poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and collecting nickels and dimes from the washing machine because she never got allowance, that kind of poor... poor enough to be nostalgic about poverty. So, when my mom and dad took me here for my tenth birthday, it was a really big deal. They'd saved up for two months to take me to the photography store and they bought me a Kodak Instamatic film camera... I really miss those days, because we were still a real family back then... this mall doesn't even have a film photography store anymore, just a cell phone and digital camera store, it's depressing..."	poverty future past cardboard coins washing-machine instamatic kodak cape-breton nova-scotia mcdonald-s camera digital birthday mall canada nostalgic shopping film poor insurance wishes dog nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
96b7d3a	"When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. "But you've loads of shoes," he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don't get it, do they? They're definitely missing the shoe chromosome."	men relationships shopping	Marian Keyes
5c8555d	n lns l yHbwn lmtjr lkhly@ , hkdh kn yqwl 'by , nhm ysh`rwn bdkhlh b`dm l'mn	shop shopping	Jeffrey Archer
56b258b	As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.	feelings tugging strings shopping invisible	Sophie Kinsella
f1afd0e	[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.	money people fear asperger-s asperger-s-syndrome aspergers aspergers-syndrome check-out jump jumped recognise sensory-stimulation quickly wallet stuff supermarket overwhelmed autism glasses shopping decision panic decisions noise touch	Andrew Wilson
2408934	Don't tell me you're passionate about your job - show me that you're passionate about helping people like me.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople passionate business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation helping	Chris Murray
10054a5	"I've just been thinking it would be a lot of fun to live in a defunct shopping mall! Totally abandoned, Yet still frozen in time, Bright white lights shining, Artificial turquoise fountains spewing out clear water, Eerie eighties elevator music drifting by... Dancing erratically, shouting to the top, Because it's sad to see these places die. They're a testament to the hubris of modern America, which is dying in and of itself. Let's face it. We know we can't compete with Online shopping And Made-in-China products And eBay And Amazon. Those of us who spent our High school And college days Being wage slaves to these dying malls, We'll be old and nostalgic someday, Telling our grandkids about these wonderful buildings! They housed sets of trendy clothes Which nobody was rich enough to afford Or thin enough to fit in. We'll tell them about the first time We were almost trampled in a Black Friday stampede. The first time we saw a kid Vomit in the ugly rainbow ball pit At the children's play area, Dumped by babysitters to grow up there, Spending their childhood draped in neon. The first time eating greasy pad-thai And hamburgers At the food court. The first time falling in love In the dark movie theatre That charges too much for stale popcorn. Holding hands in the sunlit rays Of the dusty projector... Totally lost in moments. What is the meaning of this voyage? Our grandkids, Who will probably have Smartphones Surgically implanted to their brains And identical glass condominiums by then, They'll gasp in shock and say, "Wow, that sounds SO cool!"	life love dead-mall mall shopping eerie childhood consumerism nostalgia	Rebecca McNutt
de8d58d	The salesperson you'd ideally like to be and the salesperson you'd like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn't they?	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
12e2e4c	Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? 'A fool and her money soon part.' Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale's.	money bloomingdales shopaholic shop addiction confession shopping	Sophie Kinsella
387005a	We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn't there before they arrived.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
95218ad	Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
48ec76a	Salespeople who think that it's all about price aren't required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success price shopping cost value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
ecaca7a	When deciding what to buy, remember that some things are easy to buy--but then we have to them. If they're not used, they don't enhance our lives; they just contribute to guilt and clutter.	shopping	Gretchen Rubin
131e07a	"1) Leopardskin is always a neutral. 2) You can get away with nearly anything if you wear the thing with black opaque tights and boots. 3) Contrary to popular opinion, a belt is often not a good friend to a lady. Indeed, in many circumstances, it acts merely as a visual aid to help the onlooker settle the question: "Which half is fatter - the bottom or the top?" 4) Bright red is a neutral. 5) Sellotape is NOT strong enough to mend a hole in the crotch of a pair of tights. 6) You should NOT buy an outfit if you have to strike a sexy pose in the changing-room mirror to make it look good. On the other hand, if you immediately start dancing the minute you put it on, buy it, however much it costs: unless it's lots, in which case, you can't, so don't. Fashion magazines will NEVER say, "Actually, don't buy it if you can't afford it." Neither will your friends. I am probably the only person who will EVER say it to you. You're welcome."	shopping womanhood fashion	Caitlin Moran
7d3b95f	Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don't want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
547aad7	We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before - to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
f20f05f	Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'. It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'.	shopping	Jeanette Winterson
5f876ad	We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right integrity influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence empathy trust honesty business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success work-ethic shopping business-advice humility sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
04fdfe1	When your pipeline is full - with business coming out of your ears - the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you'll already be at capacity	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
69c7403	22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.	money business-to-business influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
a8906c7	We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
0102ac2	If what you sell doesn't help me then why are you knocking on my door?	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
b675d01	Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
df39e32	I can't and won't promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople - they simply don't exist.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success jedi shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
1a99297	In this wonderful modern age, if you know what you want, you can just reach out and, with the click of a mouse, take complete control of your entire buying and shopping experience.	money influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
ea1abdf	"Salespeople need to "Earn the right" to become suppliers more than they ever did before."	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
1888533	If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers business business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
03638e6	For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.	money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation	Chris Murray
59bad1b	"It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly." --	shoes shopping guilt	Alexander McCall Smith
a2005e3	I click to buy it and I'm furious to discover that it's not available in Ireland and they won't post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it's impossible for me to go to Harrods because it's like being trapped in an Escher painting.	humour make-up ireland shopping trapped london	Marian Keyes
8df6422	Author Bill Bryson has this to say about our national obsession with shopping-- 'We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.	downfall-mankind shopping-malls shopping	Dan Taylor
61d1012	The Viscount, meanwhile, conveyed Miss Wantage to a certain mantua-maker's establishment in Bond Street, where he was not unknown. Here, after a few moments' brief and startlingly frank colloquy with the astonished proprietress, he handed Miss Wantage over, to be fitted out as became her station. Nothing occurred to disturb the harmony of these proceedings, except a slight contretemps arising out of Miss Wantage's burning desire for a very dashing confection of sea-green gauze, with silver ribbons, and the Viscount's flat refusal to permit her to wear any garment so outrageously unsuited to a young lady supposedly on her way to a select seminary in Bath. This trifling quarrel was adjusted by the mantua-maker, who, foreseeing a valuable customer in the future Lady Sheringham, who spared no pains to exercise all the tact at her command. She suggested that his lordship should buy a demure (and extremely expensive) gown for Miss Wantage to wear in the immediate future, at the same time laying by, for a later occasion, the sea-green gauze which had so taken Miss's fancy. The Viscount agreed tooth's, and was at once obliged to call Miss Wantage to order for hugging him in public. By the time these purchases, with a few other of a more intimate nature, had been made; a hat to match the muslin dress chosen at a milliner's shop farther down the street; a pair of lavender kid gloves procured; such items as brushes, combs, and Joppa soap added to the list of necessities; and a faithful promise made to Miss Wantage that she should visit this entrancing thoroughfare again upon the morrow to make further purchases, dusk was falling.	necessities shopping	Georgette Heyer
90956ac	Nothing could have appealed more strongly to Miss Wantage's youthful taste, so as soon as she had changed the chip-straw hat for an Angouleme bonnet of white thread-net trimmed with lace, she sallied forth once more with Mr. Ringwood, tripping beside him with all the assurance of one who knew herself to be dressed in the pink of fashion. The Angouleme bonnet most becomingly framed her face; she had taken great pains to comb her curls into modish ringlets; and if the figured muslin gown was less dashing than a certain pomona green silk which Mr. Ringwood had assured her, in some agitation, Sherry wouldn't like at all, no fault could be found with her little blue kid shoes, or her expensive gloves and ridicule, or with the sophisticated sun-shade which she carried to the imminent danger of the passers-by.	hero-wantage shopping	Georgette Heyer

They said I was a valued customer, now they send me hate mail.

Sophie Kinsella

c6e7344

...most guys have about 73 calories of shopping energy, and once these calories are gone, they're gone for the day - if not the week - and can't be regenerated simply by having an Orange Julius at the Food Fair.

shopping

Douglas Coupland

1aa9523

I walked inside Macy's and faced the pathetic spectacle of a department store full of shoppers, none of whom were shopping for themselves. Without the instant gratification of a self-aimed purchase, everyone walked around in the tactical stupor of the financially obligated.

shopping

Rachel Cohn

94e38b9

"I can't wear this," she said from inside the dressing room. "It's too small." "Let's see," Nick said. "Come on out." "Get me a bigger size. A lot bigger." Nick opened the door and looked in at Kate. "Whoa," he said on a gush of air. His pupils dilated to the point where his brown eyes were almost totally black, and Kate decided the dress must look better than she'd first thought. "Well?" she asked. "I think I'm in love," Nick said. "But then my brain isn't completely engaged right now. That's not where the blood is flowing." "Too much information" Kate said. "It would have been enough to tell me I look okay." "Honey you look a lot better than okay." "You don't think I look slutty?" "Not at these prices," Nick said."

nick-fox shopping

Janet Evanovich

e521780

The town is mobbed out with Saturday shoppers looking for Christmas bargains. You can almost breathe in the raw greed which hangs in the air like vapour. As the late afternoon darkness falls, the lights look tacky and sinister.

greed tacky shopping

Irvine Welsh

588afaa

[Short Talk on the Sensation of Airplane Takeoff] Well you know I wonder, it could be love running toward my life with its arms up yelling

poetry love essay shopping

Anne Carson

181fc05

"We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not "we might have to eat the dog" poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and collecting nickels and dimes from the washing machine because she never got allowance, that kind of poor... poor enough to be nostalgic about poverty. So, when my mom and dad took me here for my tenth birthday, it was a really big deal. They'd saved up for two months to take me to the photography store and they bought me a Kodak Instamatic film camera... I really miss those days, because we were still a real family back then... this mall doesn't even have a film photography store anymore, just a cell phone and digital camera store, it's depressing..."

poverty future past cardboard coins washing-machine instamatic kodak cape-breton nova-scotia mcdonald-s camera digital birthday mall canada nostalgic shopping film poor insurance wishes dog nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

96b7d3a

"When I opened my case in the hotel, he gestured excitedly at my snakeskin sandals, turquoise suede wedges and silver-speckled jellies. "But you've loads of shoes," he bellowed joyfully. I shook my head sadly. Men just don't get it, do they? They're definitely missing the shoe chromosome."

men relationships shopping

Marian Keyes

5c8555d

n lns l yHbwn lmtjr lkhly@ , hkdh kn yqwl 'by , nhm ysh`rwn bdkhlh b`dm l'mn

shop shopping

Jeffrey Archer

56b258b

As I stare at it,I can feel little invisible strings,silently tugging me toward it. I have to touch it. I have to wear it. It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.

feelings tugging strings shopping invisible

Sophie Kinsella

f1afd0e

[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone might recognise or touch her. She could not make the simplest of decisions - which type of bread did she want, or what kind of salami? I tried to do the shopping as quickly as possible, but at the check-out she started to panic. She took out her wallet, knocked off her glasses, dropped the money on the floor, stuff was going all over the place.

money people fear asperger-s asperger-s-syndrome aspergers aspergers-syndrome check-out jump jumped recognise sensory-stimulation quickly wallet stuff supermarket overwhelmed autism glasses shopping decision panic decisions noise touch

Andrew Wilson

2408934

Don't tell me you're passionate about your job - show me that you're passionate about helping people like me.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople passionate business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation helping

Chris     Murray

10054a5

"I've just been thinking it would be a lot of fun to live in a defunct shopping mall! Totally abandoned, Yet still frozen in time, Bright white lights shining, Artificial turquoise fountains spewing out clear water, Eerie eighties elevator music drifting by... Dancing erratically, shouting to the top, Because it's sad to see these places die. They're a testament to the hubris of modern America, which is dying in and of itself. Let's face it. We know we can't compete with Online shopping And Made-in-China products And eBay And Amazon. Those of us who spent our High school And college days Being wage slaves to these dying malls, We'll be old and nostalgic someday, Telling our grandkids about these wonderful buildings! They housed sets of trendy clothes Which nobody was rich enough to afford Or thin enough to fit in. We'll tell them about the first time We were almost trampled in a Black Friday stampede. The first time we saw a kid Vomit in the ugly rainbow ball pit At the children's play area, Dumped by babysitters to grow up there, Spending their childhood draped in neon. The first time eating greasy pad-thai And hamburgers At the food court. The first time falling in love In the dark movie theatre That charges too much for stale popcorn. Holding hands in the sunlit rays Of the dusty projector... Totally lost in moments. What is the meaning of this voyage? Our grandkids, Who will probably have Smartphones Surgically implanted to their brains And identical glass condominiums by then, They'll gasp in shock and say, "Wow, that sounds SO cool!"

life love dead-mall mall shopping eerie childhood consumerism nostalgia

Rebecca McNutt

de8d58d

The salesperson you'd ideally like to be and the salesperson you'd like to encounter as a customer should roughly be the same, shouldn't they?

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

12e2e4c

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? 'A fool and her money soon part.' Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale's.

money bloomingdales shopaholic shop addiction confession shopping

Sophie Kinsella

387005a

We all need salespeople who deliver value that wasn't there before they arrived.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

95218ad

Your target market are more bothered about whether what you sell will get them promoted, sacked, recognised, accepted, praised or laid.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

48ec76a

Salespeople who think that it's all about price aren't required: If it can be sold on the internet at the lowest price, you can take the huge cost of a sales team out of the equation.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success price shopping cost value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

ecaca7a

When deciding what to buy, remember that some things are easy to buy--but then we have to them. If they're not used, they don't enhance our lives; they just contribute to guilt and clutter.

shopping

Gretchen Rubin

131e07a

"1) Leopardskin is always a neutral. 2) You can get away with nearly anything if you wear the thing with black opaque tights and boots. 3) Contrary to popular opinion, a belt is often not a good friend to a lady. Indeed, in many circumstances, it acts merely as a visual aid to help the onlooker settle the question: "Which half is fatter - the bottom or the top?" 4) Bright red is a neutral. 5) Sellotape is NOT strong enough to mend a hole in the crotch of a pair of tights. 6) You should NOT buy an outfit if you have to strike a sexy pose in the changing-room mirror to make it look good. On the other hand, if you immediately start dancing the minute you put it on, buy it, however much it costs: unless it's lots, in which case, you can't, so don't. Fashion magazines will NEVER say, "Actually, don't buy it if you can't afford it." Neither will your friends. I am probably the only person who will EVER say it to you. You're welcome."

shopping womanhood fashion

Caitlin Moran

7d3b95f

Remember: when you walk into a DIY store to buy a drill, you don't want the drill. Your end goal is to make a hole and, in order to achieve this, you have to buy the drill.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

547aad7

We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before - to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

f20f05f

Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'. It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'.

shopping

Jeanette Winterson

5f876ad

We all need salespeople with humility, honesty, integrity, empathy and an old-fashioned work ethic that ensures the job gets done.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right integrity influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence empathy trust honesty business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success work-ethic shopping business-advice humility sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

04fdfe1

When your pipeline is full - with business coming out of your ears - the notion of people asking for a discount will sound hilarious, because you'll already be at capacity

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

69c7403

22% of current business-to-business salespeople will be replaced by search engines within the next five years.

money business-to-business influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

a8906c7

We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

0102ac2

If what you sell doesn't help me then why are you knocking on my door?

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

b675d01

Ignore the people who say that the sales industry needs to become professionalised: it already has.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

df39e32

I can't and won't promise you magic sales fairy dust or the Jedi Mind Trick for salespeople - they simply don't exist.

money business-to-business buying-decision buying-decision-quote earn-the-right influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers salespeople business-success jedi shopping value business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

1a99297

In this wonderful modern age, if you know what you want, you can just reach out and, with the click of a mouse, take complete control of your entire buying and shopping experience.

money influence-quotes salesmanship selling-skills selling-tips sales-effectiveness selling influence trust business-quotes buying customers business-success shopping business-advice sales sales-training negotiation

Chris     Murray

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"Salespeople need to "Earn the right" to become suppliers more than they ever did before."

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Chris     Murray

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If you sound like a contestant from The Apprentice or if the customer believes that they are being sold AT, you have already failed.

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Chris     Murray

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For all salespeople - Driving around and talking to people for a living, with no recognisable return for the time or money spent by your employer - is a job description that belongs in the past.

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Chris     Murray

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"It was a stark choice: shoes or food; beauty or sustenance; the sensible or the self-indulgent. "I'll take the shoes," she said firmly." --

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Alexander McCall Smith

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I click to buy it and I'm furious to discover that it's not available in Ireland and they won't post it from abroad and the only place that sells it is Harrods and it's impossible for me to go to Harrods because it's like being trapped in an Escher painting.

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Marian Keyes

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Author Bill Bryson has this to say about our national obsession with shopping-- 'We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

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Dan Taylor

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The Viscount, meanwhile, conveyed Miss Wantage to a certain mantua-maker's establishment in Bond Street, where he was not unknown. Here, after a few moments' brief and startlingly frank colloquy with the astonished proprietress, he handed Miss Wantage over, to be fitted out as became her station. Nothing occurred to disturb the harmony of these proceedings, except a slight contretemps arising out of Miss Wantage's burning desire for a very dashing confection of sea-green gauze, with silver ribbons, and the Viscount's flat refusal to permit her to wear any garment so outrageously unsuited to a young lady supposedly on her way to a select seminary in Bath. This trifling quarrel was adjusted by the mantua-maker, who, foreseeing a valuable customer in the future Lady Sheringham, who spared no pains to exercise all the tact at her command. She suggested that his lordship should buy a demure (and extremely expensive) gown for Miss Wantage to wear in the immediate future, at the same time laying by, for a later occasion, the sea-green gauze which had so taken Miss's fancy. The Viscount agreed tooth's, and was at once obliged to call Miss Wantage to order for hugging him in public. By the time these purchases, with a few other of a more intimate nature, had been made; a hat to match the muslin dress chosen at a milliner's shop farther down the street; a pair of lavender kid gloves procured; such items as brushes, combs, and Joppa soap added to the list of necessities; and a faithful promise made to Miss Wantage that she should visit this entrancing thoroughfare again upon the morrow to make further purchases, dusk was falling.

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Georgette Heyer

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Nothing could have appealed more strongly to Miss Wantage's youthful taste, so as soon as she had changed the chip-straw hat for an Angouleme bonnet of white thread-net trimmed with lace, she sallied forth once more with Mr. Ringwood, tripping beside him with all the assurance of one who knew herself to be dressed in the pink of fashion. The Angouleme bonnet most becomingly framed her face; she had taken great pains to comb her curls into modish ringlets; and if the figured muslin gown was less dashing than a certain pomona green silk which Mr. Ringwood had assured her, in some agitation, Sherry wouldn't like at all, no fault could be found with her little blue kid shoes, or her expensive gloves and ridicule, or with the sophisticated sun-shade which she carried to the imminent danger of the passers-by.

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Georgette Heyer