Up-sell
Cross-sell
Engage
Connect
Assess their needs
Sell to their needs
You have no needs
Your needs are their needs
Smile
Role-play
Turn on the charm
Deep breath
Confident face
Ready?
Am I speaking?
I hear myself
Am I smiling enough?
Be assertive
I’m not flirting, am I?
Close the deal.
Isn’t that why they hired me?
Close the deal.
In my poem, I stow myself away
Read the room
Inspire your customers
World’s greatest
Papered in gray
You can count on us
To be super
Informative
Passionate
Fantastic
Just like this Super Great Purified Drinking Water (with flavor enhancing minerals)
Which we’ve kindly provided for you
Along with this cardboard carryout working lunch
Talk and swallow
You’re a winner
Gulp
Lessons in clockwork
Windowless
Corporate time clock
Tongues pool hungry for jargon
The air is thick with gray
Market yourself
Brand yourself
I’m climbing out of myself
Feet shrouded in gray
I have a thought:
I did well today. Maybe this really is my future.
I exhale in flames
With my poem, I burn it to the ground
to the ground!
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I LOVE THIS. “Sales.’ Ugh. I get it…
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Thank you! Ha! You know what I’m talking about…
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O.M.G. YES!!!!! Lol. Smh. Ugh!
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I love this too, and now I know that I am older than you! As soon as you become aware of the role, it ceases to BE you. ❤️
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Thank you! I wrote this poem during/after a corporate sales training session I attended recently. And, I always find myself, in scenarios like that, looking around the room and wondering how many people actually believe in what they’re hearing–or in the words that are coming out of their own mouths. That’s the hardest part for me–and it seems to get worse as I get older–saying things I don’t believe, or pretending to care about things that don’t interest me. I’m terrible at it. 🙂
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You have elevated your level of consciousness. Rock on!
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I never thought of it that way. You’re sweet, thank you!
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Funny. I thought you were writing about mothering til I read the comments. 😉
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Haha…indeed! Thank you for commenting 😉
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Nice to take the unpleasant and give it some, depth.
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Thanks! It’s an escape from the unpleasantness
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So, that brings up something interesting. If the bottom is crap and the top is unpleasant then, what are we doing and why are we doing it?
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Ha! I wish I had an answer!
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Me too.
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At least, it creates jobs for an industry, of an industry. A kind of programming.
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That it does.
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Wow!! Understand totally. You become the slave to their rhythm
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For sure. It can feel like a kind of prison.
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