Below are five gifts that you can give yourself for an awesome year ahead:
1. Work harder: I don’t buy into any of this crap about "work smarter, not harder" BLAH BLAH BLAH. If you make ONE more call each day, that is 250 extra calls in a year. If that results in just five new customers, at an average of $25,000 in revenue, that could mean as much as an extra $12,000 in commission for you, give or take. One call a day. DUDE.

Blogger, author, consultant, coach and all around evangelist for the graphic arts industry, Kelly sold digital printing for 15 years so she understands the challenges, frustrations and pitfalls of building a successful sales practice. Her mission is to help printers of all sizes sell more stuff. Kelly's areas of focus include sales and marketing coaching, enabling clients to find engagement strategies that work for them and mentoring the next generation of sales superstars.
Kelly graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Political Science and, among other notable accomplishments, co-founded the Windy City Rollers, a professional women's roller derby league. She is also the mother of two sets of twins under the age of ten, so she fears nothing.