What’s Your Plan When Inventories Normalize? Today (if you’re like most dealers) you’re selling everything you stock and you’re making the highest grosses on both new and used vehicles that you’ve made in years; perhaps decades; perhaps ever. Of course, while many sales managers will chalk this up to their superior desking skills, the truth […]
Car Dealers: Now is the Time for Real SEO First, a few quick Search Engine Optimization (SEO) definitions in layman’s terms: SEO: The practice of optimizing a website to appear higher in the free (organic) search results on sites like Google and Bing. Typical Automotive SEO: A gigantic waste of money. Real SEO: Actual work […]
(Mission Critical is an annoying business term and is just one of the 212 Most Annoying Business Phrases Managers Effuse, Confuse, and Overuse detailed in the hilarious must-have guide for every workplace: The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room. Available right now on Amazon.) Mission Critical The problem with this saying – and why it’s so […]
(Download is an annoying business term and is just one of the 212 Most Annoying Business Phrases Managers Effuse, Confuse, and Overuse detailed in the hilarious must-have guide for every workplace: The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room. Available right now on Amazon.) Download Used properly, download has a place in the business world. If only […]
(Crawl, Walk, Run is an annoying business term and is just one of the 212 Most Annoying Business Phrases Managers Effuse, Confuse, and Overuse detailed in the hilarious must-have guide for every workplace: The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room. Available right now on Amazon.) Crawl, Walk, Run Oh, thank you, you kings and queens of […]
(At This Juncture and At This Point in Time are annoying business terms and represent just just one of the 212 Most Annoying Business Phrases Managers Effuse, Confuse, and Overuse detailed in the hilarious must-have guide for every workplace: The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room. Available right now on Amazon.) At This Juncture / At […]
Steve Stauning’s 100% Biased Gift List for Christmas 2020 2020 has been a strange year (to say the least). Though despite the on again/off again restrictions, your family, friends, and coworkers still expect a gift from you this holiday season. Instead of the clothes they’ll never wear or the ever-impersonal gift card, why not give […]
Ridiculously Simple Sales Management: The Blame Game (This post is one of 24 short and ridiculously simple chapters from Ridiculously Simple Sales Management. The book was written to help any sales or BDC manager quickly build and maintain a truly high-performing sales team. Each chapter concludes with Key Learnings and Chapter Exercises that make implementation […]
What’s the Best Gift for Your Annoying Boss or Coworker in 2020? To put mildly, 2020 has been a challenging year for everyone. For those who worked in offices prior to March and are now working remotely, you’ve surely been able to overcome the technology and nuisance challenges of Zoom meetings by now. You’ve become […]
Should You Buy an Extended Warranty When Purchasing a Used Car? I know there are lots of online opinions written by “experts” telling you whether it’s a good idea to purchase an extended warranty. Add my opinion to this long list. However, understand that mine is an opinion I would give my children if they […]
(This is an excerpt from The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room – Available on Amazon.) Reinvent The Wheel While those in the workplace who waste effort trying to create something that’s already been created can be annoying, they’re not nearly as annoying as those who constantly chastise everyone with “We don’t need to reinvent the […]
Managers Say the Darndest Things Luckily for you, the 212 most annoying of these are detailed in this brand-new book: “The 30,000-Pound Gorilla in the Room” COUER D’ALENE, ID – If chronicling the most annoying business jargon spewed in the workplace today sounds like a cringe-inducing assignment to you, you’d be half-right. While certainly cringe-inducing, it […]
Motivation for The 30,000-Pound Gorilla Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or, perhaps, just living a normal life), you’ve heard about the phenomenal new book I co-wrote that details the 212 most annoying business phrases managers use. Okay… you’ve never heard of it before this moment… I get it. But, now that you have […]
Should I Cancel all Advertising? Marketing in An Uncertain Environment (This post is an updated summary of advice I provided my clients last month.) I’m getting a lot of questions from clients about what to do with marketing budgets during the current crisis, so I thought I’d share with you what I would do if […]
The Best Amazon Review I Ever Received Casey gave my book, Sh*t Sandwich, a 2-Star review on Amazon last week… and, it’s the best review I’ve ever received! Before I explain why it’s the best review ever, let me share his thought-provoking words of wisdom: OK, Boomer. This is the most boomer book I’ve ever […]
It’s like… instantaneous! (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) The Fastest Way To Achieve Success Want to know the fastest way to achieve success? Define what you have right now as successful. Congratulations, you’ve achieved success! By the way, […]
Well, they will… (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) Everyone Likes You… They Really Like You! Six simple things done every day, and done with a genuine desire to find the good in others, will ensure that everyone you […]
Most (Unfortunately) Choose Decay (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) Grow or Decay: It’s Your Choice Whether you grow from right now or steadily decay is entirely up to you. Not surprisingly, your attitude subconsciously drives this decision; and […]
Best Reviewed Lesson in the Book… (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) Changing a Little Changes a Lot Would you like to appear more confident and competent to everyone you meet? More than that, would you like to actually […]
The Big G Goal, That Is (One of the 83 quick and practical life & work lessons from Sh*t Sandwich: Quick & Practical Success Lessons for Practically Anyone.) Forgetting the Goal: A Leadership Dilemma It seems everywhere we turn today we see examples of poor leadership. We experience bad customer service provided by an uncaring […]