: About Me

I live in South Australia and I'm very passionate about my home town Adelaide.

I love sport, I play sport and I would love to be employed writing about sport, or writing about anything that interests me.

I'm now writing sport articles for a sporting website and I'm currently employed as a Business Development Manager in the Building Services Industry, but my dream job would be a sports writer.

I am married and have 3 beautiful young children, and adore watching them grow up, but wish it would slow down a bit as it seems to be going so quickly.

I have played Australian Rules Football, cricket (still do), tennis and golf competitively at modest levels. I have ran in the London Marathon and regularly compete in cycling events up to 150km in a day.

I love my family and my life, and my "icing on the cake" would be to love with a passion what I do for a job.

My passion is ...

Family, competition and sport

I know too much about ...

Not knowing enough

My parents always told me ...

Treat others how you would like to be treated yourself

My childhood ambition ...

Play pofessional sport

My favorite memory ...

Completing the London Marathon

Why I write ...

I find it very easy to express my thoughts and I enjoy doing it

My first job ...

Pumping petrol at a service station

My best moment ...

Birth of my children

My inspiration ...

My family and enjoying what I do

Business > Sales Sales tips: Building trust

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"People buy from people they like and from people they trust". This single piece of advice given to me last year has been without doubt the best piece of sales advice I have ever received. I've attended countless sales seminars; I've read at least a dozen books on sales techniques, and a lot of the tips and advice I have heard and read has been useful, but this little piece of advice is simply gold! I'm a sales manager in the service industry, and historically 85% of new business our company wins is a result of responding to tenders, and in a typical year, our company would win approximate...

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