Hey, at least you'll get your motivation back. It's been a long-quoted fact that you will lose 10 to 15 percent of your business every year. It's not uncommon, however, to lose a large customer and have a gaping hole in sales and subsequent commissions. Filling that void is not easily accomplished. It can take months just to get an appointment, additional months to get a sniff at anything and even more months to recover the lost volume.
Very much alive and now officially an industry curmudgeon, strategic growth expert T. J. Tedesco can be reached at tj@tjtedesco.com or 301-404-2244.
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