Sales Joke of the Day (March 30) Doctor's Appointment.

An almost retired salesman, near the end of the quarter goes for a physical.   All of his tests come back with normal results.


The doctor says, "George, everything looks great.  How are you doing mentally and emotionally?  Are you at peace with God?"


George replies, "God and I are tight.  He knows I have poor eyesight, so he's fixed it so when I get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, "POOF!" the lights go on.  When I'm done, "POOF!" the lights go off."


"Wow, that's incredible," the doctor says.


A little later in the day, the doctor calls George's wife.  "Dorothy," he says, "George is doing fine!  But I had to call you because I'm in awe of his relationship with God.  Is it true that when he gets up during the night to go to the bathroom 'POOF!' the lights go on, and when he's done 'POOF!' the lights go off?"


"Oh my Goodness!"  Dorothy exclaimed.  "He's peeing in the fridge again!"


Moral of the story.  As they age, true sales professionals recognize the need to stay in top physical shape.  Good diet, exercise and plenty of sleep allow you to perform at your best throughout the day.  They also try to limit snacks between meals so they never have to make trips to the fridge in the middle of the night, no matter what the reason.



"Stand back!  I gotta get some rocket fuel out of the fridge!"  -  Adam Savage

Sales Joke of the Day (March 20) The Sticky Note On The Fridge.

The salesman's wife left a sticky note on the fridge . . . . . . . . "It's not working!! I can't take it anymore: I've gone to stay at my mothers!"

After a long day on the road.   The salesman came home, read the note, and opened the fridge.   The fridge light came on and his  beer, well, it was still cold.   The salesman wondered to himself, "What's her problem?"

Moral of the story.   True sales professionals know that in order to succeed you not only have to be passionate about your products or service, but you also have to have compassion for your prospects and customers.   Dealing with the high stress of quotas and customer complaints, day in day out, can cause some sales people to became insensitive.   They can became insensitive to others needs and feelings.   For a professional salesperson this can be disastrous.  A healthy income in sales is based on the preservation of healthy relationships.  If you start losing relationships; you start to lose income.  Staying sensitive to others just makes cents.

"What a man does for pay is of little significance.  What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"         -   H.P. Lovecraft