Rick Roberge

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Apology +

I published an article yesterday. I apologize. I re-read the article. It was a total rant. I unpublished it. Deleted it. Gone. Done. I apologize. This should be more productive.

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Sales Core Competencies of Artificial Intelligence

I've told several people that I'm glad that I'm not beginning my sales career today. I probably would have stayed the course that we picked in high school and became an engineer. I'll work another year, but it'll be interesting to see how many salespeople give up and figure out another way to make a living.

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My 3 Step Plan to Rock December

May I set this up with two recent short posts to LinkedIn.

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Can AI Do Your Job?

I was listening to the radio last week and heard an author talking about his book. He believes that one third of the jobs being done by humans today will be done by machines in 2030.

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Mark Roberge a la RainMaker Maker

A week ago, I asked my son, Mark, where the recording went that I referenced in this blog post. He replied that he didn't know, but that this was his latest work on the subject. Please don't think that I'm a bad father. I know that thousands of people had already watched the video and a whole bunch were there to watch it live, but I hadn't watched it. So, I did.

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Drag Queens & Sales Acumen

What???

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Are you honest about "worst case"?

Three stories about a neighbor, a prospect and 9/11.

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Can a Sales VP Fix Customer Churn?

Got an email from a Sales VP saying that he was going to pause recruiting to fix churn.

Sound familiar?

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Full Employment and Sales Competency

I read an article that quoted, "In August, the national unemployment rate remained near a 50-year low at 3.7 percent". 96.3% of Americans are working? No wonder it's so hard to find decent salespeople!

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Goals: Yours > Mine = Special Offer

OK. So, maybe I'm not too old to:

  • learn from someone younger?
  • try something new?
  • have a greater impact?
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