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Gitomer Named to Chris Johnson’s Board of Directors

March 19, 2009 By
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gitomerJeffrey Gtiomer, Chief Executive Salesperson responsible for “helping people love to buy,” was named to Chris Johnson’s board of directors today.  He will mostly advice through his New York Times best selling sales books, although he may eventually see this post, be amused, and decide to call at 614-432-8758 and offer free advice in exchange for all of the adulation he’s recieved here from one of the fastest growing freelancer sales blogs in existence.

Gitomer writes approximately 4 #1 amazon best selling sales each morning, but his best book–and the one you should all buy right now–is the “Little gold book of YES! attitude.“  If you do what that says, you’ll find the energy in yourself to be enthusiastic about working your ass off.  It can be read in an hour, and everyone should buy a copy. If you’re making less money than $500,000 a year then you should read and study this book.  It is the ultimate concierge into personal development.  You should also read all  the books that it references, and then the books that they reference.  This, of course, presumes that you’re going to throw your TV away.

“If you executed about 30% of Gitomers’s advice, you’d have no money worries in about 60 days,” says Chris Johnson, “So that’s the standard to uphold.”

Gitomer’s philosophy is simply put to give value first, and without the suffocation of entitlement that happens when you do that.   He sets an example by writing “sales caffeine,” a free news zine that has mostly good advice…for sales people that goes out to who-knows-how-many people.  He will help remind Chris to give value as much as possible and Chris will do that through freelancer sales videos, free white papers and this blog.   The insane consistency that Gitomer has is also something to behold.

Finally, if there is any doubt whatever about Gitomer’s ability to sell, just take a look at his girlfriend:  jessicamcdougal

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March 6, 2009 By

I’m into personal development.

But not for its own sake.

I’m into improvement.

But not into the dogma of our age.

I’ve failed and succeeded spectacularly in my 32 years.  And the best I know didn’t come from Fraudster Robert Kiyosaki.  That’s why I wrote my book. Now?  I’ve made a poll.  Some of the most in sync posts are up.

My Favorite: Bre Petis and the Cult of Done

  1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.
  2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.
  3. There is no editing stage.
  4. Pretending you know what you’re doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you’re doing even if you don’t and do it.
  5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.
  6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.
  7. Once you’re done you can throw it away.
  8. Laugh at perfection. It’s boring and keeps you from being done.
  9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.
  10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.
  11. Destruction is a variant of done.
  12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.
  13. Done is the engine of more.

I said a lot of these things in F#@% procrastination, F#@% Perfection and F#@% Indecision.   But he said it in 13 sentences.  So good job, Bre.  This is the first thing I’ve read and I might hafta carve out a spot for you on my “Board” of Directors.

Anyway, for more good stuff, go ahead and vote here: http://ftherapybook.com/blog

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