Sales Pros Don't Have Time For Grouchy - Editor's Note
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Sales Pros Don't Have Time For Grouchy

By Kim Phelan

Article Date: 07-01-2012
Copyright(C) 2012 Associated Equipment Distributors. All Rights Reserved.


Almost everybody has to fight for what they get – sales reps are fighting for your survival and their own.

Wisconsin's recall election in June has been gnawing at me, enough so that I began rifling through headlines and commentaries about the state's recent – and quite affirming – decision about Gov. Walker's job performance. But the outcome came at quite a cost, and I'm not even counting the millions of dollars that poured in from around the country, on both sides, to sway this thing. What's sad is that, "The Badger State, one of the friendliest, most neighborly places in the land, has been rubbed raw by endless political conflict," one FoxNews.com story stated. "Voters are grouchy and deeply divided."

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