By August Turak on April 18, 2011
As I moved from sales into management, I also moved from the sell side to the buy side of the proverbial “street.” And as a buyer I became involved in a strange ritual. At the end of each month my phone would ring incessantly as sales reps desperate for business eagerly tried to outdo each other offering me discounts.
Usually price had little or nothing to do with the fact that I was not ready to make a decision, but since these reps never bothered to ask, I felt no obligation to tell them. Instead I played along …
Posted in Transformational Organizations | Tagged allowances, Business, Buying, Decision making, Discount, Home & Garden, Lamborghini, Marketing, Pickpockets, Price, Sales
By Melissa Carter on March 10, 2011
On January 20th August Turak presented “Cutting Through the Noise: Turning Products and Services into Iconic Brands” at the Triangle Marketing Association luncheon in Raleigh, NC. Following the event, president of the Triangle AMA, Shane Johnston said: “We definitely recommend Augie for another event, including our own!“ Comments from Attendees: Excellent presentation. Great verbal & [...]
Posted in Career Success, Featured, Video | Tagged Brands, Creative Thinking, Event, Marketing, Sales, Success, Triangle AMA
By August Turak on December 2, 2010
My first service and selflessness business lesson came as a complete surprise. Somewhere a voice started yelling, “Speech! Speech!” and instantly it was echoing throughout the room. I was just 23, only four months into my first “real” job flogging 3M copy machines, and had just been named the New England region’s “Salesman of the Month.” Utterly unprepared, I stumbled to the podium and [...]
Posted in Career Success | Tagged Forbes.com, Gratitude, Sales, Second Nature
By August Turak on April 1, 2010
Service and selflessness is not some pie in the sky concept I channeled between tree hugging sessions. It works. I’ve been in sales all my life as a salesman, sales manager, sales executive, and as the CEO of a sales driven organization. The key to sales success is [...]
Posted in Transcending Capitalism | Tagged Hope, Management, Merging Business & Spirituality, Money & Entrepreneurship, Monks, Post Modern Relativism, Profit, Sales, Service and selflessness, Success, Transformation
By August Turak on May 28, 2009
I was invited to Hawaii a few years ago to give a series of lectures by a student of mine from Duke named Fred who was in the Navy and stationed in Hawaii. On the whole it was a very successful trip but one night while dining with Fred and his friends, his friends suddenly [...]
Posted in Personal Transformation | Tagged Alchemy, As Above So Below, Controversy, Cosmic Consciousness, Depression, Emotions, Enlightenment, False Teaching, Ground of Being, Hard Work, Intellect, Intuition, Mortality, Nivrvana, Path, Perfection, Personality, Philosophy, Plato, Problem of Life, Reason, Religion, Richard Rose, Sales, Samadhi, Sartori, Self Deception, Senses, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Spirituality as Disillusionment, The Matrix, Unio Mystico
