*This post was written by Kirk Wakefield – June 2017 Do you answer a call from an unknown number? Neither does anyone else. Americans spend upwards of 4 hours a day on smartphones, but odds of answering an unidentified caller are about one in four. Millennials are even less likely to answer: Phone calls are seen…Continue Reading How to Sell Tickets to People Who Won’t Answer the Phone
by Darryl Lehnus – June 2017 Kicking off the S3 StubHub Ticket Campaign Competition Learning best practices is one of the most valuable elements of the meetings, conventions, and seminars we all attend. To that end, with partnered with StubHub to launch the annual S3 StubHub Ticket Campaign Competition at the 2017 S3 Board Meetings…Continue Reading Best Ticket Campaign Ideas
by Kirk Wakefield – June 2017 What is Grit? Angela Duckworth made an industry out of her own passion and perseverance toward a long-term goal–her definition of grit–and measuring it in others. Controlling for other factors (SAT scores, IQ, self-control, and the Big 5 personality traits), she and her colleague’s research[ref]Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews & Kelly…Continue Reading Does Grit Lead to High Performance in Sales?