Why is it that as women, we think we have to do everything by ourselves? Why can’t we ask for help? Yet what happens anywhere, anytime, every day that is truly done by only one person? Nothing!
In sales, people often think that if they ask for help, they will lose their competitive advantage or appear weak. Seriously? The reality is that could not be further from the truth. Do you really believe you know everything about everything? I know you don’t, but you are trying to act as if you do. Let’s stop that today.
People have been collaborating to help one another since the beginning of time – billions of people. So why reinvent the wheel? Why not figure out who is in your world who would love to collaborate with you?
Here are some people who love to collaborate to make your sales great:
• Marketing professionals
• Customers
• Competitors
• Trusted advisors
• Vendors
• Banks
• Your team
Each of them want to help you create new opportunities, work with you on an ongoing basis, develop win-win opportunities, see you succeed – yes, your good competitors do! Like you, they want the bad competitors to go away. These people want to help make it easier not harder to do what you do best!
Why not give yourself a goal? Make a plan to reach out to others for just one month, and share what you want to try, want to do better, want to stop doing. Trust me, all those brains will work together to help you do more than you could have imagined possible. Many brains are really better than one!
You are only a weenie if you don’t try! Be a winner this month. Collaborate!