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Quick Ideas 3 to 4

any other way. For this quick idea, our recommendation is that

you form a team and call it

your prospecting task force.

Each Tuesday morning Assignment

at 7 a.m., a group of people Form a prospecting task
from different departments force today and follow these
gathers at a restaurant to do ideas and watch what hap-
their prospect planning for the pens. Make sure you pick a
week. The coordinator, their diverse group of people from
national sales manager, starts your company for your task
the meeting by reviewing their force and don’t be afraid to
Top 10 prospects from the move people in and out as
previous week and the re- you discover how the team
sults from their action plan works together.
they put together the previ-

ous Tuesday. Following that,

they create a new Top 10 agenda. After that list of 10 is in

place, they brainstorm a few action items for the week to come,

and assignments are made to various task force members to

follow-through. Their real secret is the energy and synergy that

flows out of the group. An excellent example of this comes from

Ray Kroc, the founder of McDonald’s, who said “No one of us is

as smart as all of us.”

Epilogue

Don’t wait for something to happen. If you get your task
force together today, you can make it happen!

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