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Sales and Marketing Management Magazine Sellers Go to Confession
A new Web site that allows salespeople to anonymously confess their
most embarrassing professional moments online is quickly becoming a
CULT HIT among sales folks.
Sales and Marketing Automation Magazine
"Surely Seidman deserves some kind of marketing award for the
'cleverest use of Internet tools in lead procurement.' The mind races
with the possibilities for his confessional marketing apparatus."
Selling Power Magazine distributes a monthly CD & audiocassette
product, Selling Power Live! to 15,000 salespeople, executives and
entrepreneurs. The February issue replaced the 'memorable sale' feature
with a Sales Autopsy horror story.
Ebay Magazine From poor decisions to mishaps beyond their control, www.salesautopsy.com
contains sad stories from the world of sales. The article included a
picture of Dustin Hoffman as Willie Loman from Death of a Salesman.
Crain's Chicago Business that deal you blew? Someday, you'll laugh
by Terry McManus
Did you hear the one about the salesperson who:
Mistook a prospect's wife for football commentator John Madden? Alienated a potential client by making ethnic slurs? Blew a deal because he failed to get the customer's signature on an auto trade-in?
If you've been a regular reader of www.salesautopsy.com, you have.
Chicago Tribune an old technique backfires--and leads to seller's remorse
by Dale Dauten King Features Syndicate Outstanding, comprehensive article on the philosophy of Sales Autopsy; includes some of the most popular stories.
USA Today hot sites choice
Generated over 2,500 new site visitors over several days
Media Professional Newsletter (Audit Bureau of Circulations)
Addles of Advertising: Tales From Sales Sales Autopsy, Inc. has collected tales of calls from hell.
B2B Magazine (An Advertising Age Publication)
Profit Magazine
Huge article on Sales Autopsy and it's philosophy about sales failures
International Publications:
Software Success Magazine
Webbound Magazine
Comprehensive feature article on the Sales Autopsy story
Realtor Magazine
Successful Closing Techniques Newsletter (Dartnell Publications)
Over 40 leading major city newspaper have
covered Sales Autopsy through syndicated articles as well as 'hot site'
designations. RADIO ONLINE provides show prep information to over 500
air personalities daily.
Big ideas radio sales and promotion ideas
Parenting Publications of America
Netscape Navigator What's New Today
After a huge splash - continues to generate website traffic
Orlando Business Journal & Business Ledger (regional publications) have published articles on salesautopsy.com. This generated significant traffic to the website.
Best Ezines
A Sales Anectdote Daily Calendar 2001 has
been produced by Andrews McNeel Publishing (Dilbert Calendar, etc.) and
is written by author of 70 books, Alan Zullo. Several short sales
stories from the Sales Autopsy collection were used.
Site Du Jour Award:
It was nice to see a sales site with the reality of business fairly
represented. The rah-rah-rah motivation stuff grows thin quickly,
nothing like adose of reality to stop you in your tracks to wonder if
these poor folks might serve as a lesson. Site du Jour of the Day
readers should find your site worthy of a visit.
Several
online newsletters (notably Shel Hororwitz, author of Marketing without
Megabucks) have posted articles by the author. These include Death of
Feature Benefit Selling and Proposals Allow a Prospect to Steal your
Brainpower.
Humor Search has
awarded the sales horror story website the highest-possible rating - 5
stars. This rating is given to less than 3% of all submitted humor
sites.
"Very funny stuff." Jaclyn Easton Author of the best-seller StrikingItRich.com and Los Angeles Times web reporter.
I *loved* that one on your site about "John Madden". How cool.
Ray Owens Joke A Day, the original and largest humor source on the Internet (Ray later used another favorite sales story in a video clip on his site)
Dallas Morning News
Selling Points by Carla D'Nan Bass
New York Life insurance agent website
SalesAutopsy.com takes a comical, postmortem look at failed sales as a
lead generator for sales consulting services. Okay, 'fess up. We've all
been there, but fortunately a rejection can be a good thing - a lesson.
Better to learn from others than to make these particular mistakes
yourself. At the site, you can read the sales horror stories from hell.
Sign up for the monthly email newsletter and turn the failures of
others into your fortunes.
Southwestern Life Insurance Website
Web Digest for Marketers by best-selling author Larry Chase (Essential Business Tactics for the Net):
Okay, 'fess up. We've all been there, but fortunately a rejection can
be a good thing -- a lesson. Better to learn from others than to make
these particular mistakes yourself. At the site, you can read the sales
horror stories from hell. Sign up for the monthly email newsletter and
turn the failures of others into your fortunes.
Target Marketing Ezine by Jim Sterne, best-selling author of World Wide Web Marketing and five other books
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