Rugg's Sales and Science Fiction: Recent Episodes
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Science Fiction makes for great entertainment, but hidden within the genre are tips and tricks that savvy sales professionals can use in order to make more and better sales. Veteran sales rep and science-fiction author Raymond Rugg shows us how.
Science Fiction author and scholar James Gunn is perhaps the most accomplished and honored personality in the field, and his advice on writing in the genre is also applicable for today's sales professionals.
Tanya Huff's military Sci-Fi series, the Valor Confederation, has some good advice for how sales reps should conduct themselves in the chain of command.
The short story Perchance to Dream reminds us of the often untapped potential of our (figurative and literal) dreams.
This industry anecdote from the days of the pulp magazines has a lesson about achieving your sales goals.
Star Trek TOS may have only aired for three seasons on the small screen, but the characters of Kirk and Spock changed the lives of William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy forever. Here's what sales professionals can learn from these actors' careers.
Niven and Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye" is a milestone in First-Contact SF literature, but what can it teach us about managing our sales territory?
Instead of looking at a lesson from the Handbook, this week we run through some great quotes about Sales from some great Sci-Fi movies!
Lesson #20 from the Handbook of Sales and Science Fiction: What sales reps can learn from science fiction cover art.
Episode 2 of the podcast features Lesson 2 from the book Rugg's Handbook of Sales and Science Fiction-- Doctor Who, Asylum of the Daleks!
Dune by Frank Herbert isn't just the best science fiction novel ever written, it also has a valuable lesson for sales professionals. This is the S&SF lesson that inspired the book, Rugg's Handbook of Sales and Science Fiction.