RSSBarter Bank
May 26, 2005 Friends and Partners
Have you ever heard of a Barter Bank? I hadn’t. Obviously I’ve been living a sheltered life.
There is a company I’ve just connected with called Capital Barter Bank (www.cbbank.co.uk). We bartered my Buying Facilitation in a Box. I hope to use my ‘money’ to get me a nice hotel room in Shanghai. It’s a neat idea – obviously a very old idea made new.
Have a look. I’m impressed with the people there and the business model.
sd
Facilitator University
May 25, 2005 Friends and Partners
I found Steve Davis of Facilitator University today – www.masterfacilitatorjournal.com. I’m so impressed. He’s taken the concept of ‘facilitation’ – near and dear to my heart, given my model is called Buying Facilitation or Decision Facilitation – and expanded it across contexts for anyone involved in facilitating another in being their best.
When I named my company – Morgen Facilitations – and my model, I got a lot of flack for using a word (facilitation) that no one else was using at the time (15 years ago). I guess if you wait around long enough, a great idea will find its time.
Seems Steve has helped the idea come through, and his site is chock full of hints, support, and learning tools. Impressive. I’m glad there are innovative thinkers around who truly want to serve us all in helping us find ways to communicate and grow.
-Sharon Drew Morgen
Mainstream Sales Frustration
May 21, 2005 Sales Related
Sometimes I get very frustrated by mainstream sales folks who stick to what they’ve been used to for a long time, and have little interest in adopting a new idea. While they say they are interested in money, or truly serving their customers, etc., it seems they have more criteria around doing it their own way – whatever the results – than making some changes that would net them more money (not to mention have better/longer client relationships, etc.).
Integrity in Sales
May 21, 2005 Sales Related
I just got asked by a reader, why I consider Buying Facilitation an ethical, or spiritual, model, and how the Method uses Integrity as it was not readily apparent.
Software Service Follow Up
May 20, 2005 Random Thoughts
Given the past blogs I wrote about Caelo Software and the NEO email organizer, I’m happy to report that the folks there – Tom Gibson and David Bracewell – have bent over backwards to help me get the software up and running on my computer. Sad to say that I’m pretty backwards when it comes to technology, and I am using the wrong version of Outlook, and was too cranky to change it in order to get the NEO organizer up and running (not their fault at all!).
So, I’d say that given the raves I’ve heard about it, I’d give it a trial. I’ve been told it’s a very complete, interesting way to organize and file emails, that makes them easily accessible, and all in the right place at the right time. Let me know how you get on. Just maybe I can be convinced to change my desktop and stop being so cranky.
-Sharon Drew Morgen
Buying Facilitation in the mainstream
May 16, 2005 Sales Related
It’s been about 15 years that I’ve been working at changing the entire field of sales to include a Buying Facilitation front end. In the beginning, I only got attention and business from the visionaries.
