Are you inundated by constant notifications and interruptions? You could be hurting your bottom line. According to a University of California Irvine study, it takes nearly 25 minutes to refocus on the task at hand after your concentration has been broken; for modern...

Shockingly 92% of people that set goals at the beginning of the year never actually achieve them. What’s going to make you different? Follow our Ultimate Sales Machine business goal setting worksheet steps to answer your questions. Begin by...

There’s a hidden weight dragging down the bottom line of every business. We see it every day. Studies reveal 92% of companies have ineffective, incomplete, or non-existent sales process. Or worse, sales processes that their salespeople don’t follow. The need for...

Most people know Henry Ford as the founder of Ford Motor Company and the originator of the assembly line.  But Ford was also a master motivator.   One day he walked onto the factory floor carrying a can of paint.  He marched to the middle of the room and proceeded to...

Chet Holmes International has been assisting companies for three decades on how to grow -regardless of what’s going on in their company or industry. Our Ultimate Sales Machine methodology has done it all. Our methodology has been able to: Double the sales of a paint...

Most companies are totally reactive, rather than proactive. Moreover, they have to constantly recreate the wheel because they never stopped to create a formal process or standardized training program in the first place.  An exercise to find out what you want to fix...

As you sit through a 60-minute meeting, have you ever thought of how you can use this time to do something more productive? Perhaps you just count the remaining Powerpoint slides hoping that it will soon be done or listen inattentively to a single person dominating...

Running your own business can be very challenging and quite often, the risk that comes with it outweighs its reward. According to research, two-thirds of businesses with employees survive their first year in business, half make it to five years, and only one-third...

"By the time you read this story, the quirky cult company…will end its wild ride as an independent enterprise.”  This was how Fortune, a major publication, predicted how Apple will fall in 1996. Every entrepreneur experiences days where the future seems bleak and...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to negatively affect the economy, salespeople are left with no choice but to adapt to the new normal. While the preventive measures being taken to minimize the transmission of the virus are proven to be beneficial for everyone’s...