This blog is written by Donnie Tuttle and his various business partners and colleagues at Southwestern Consulting. The articles shared here specialize in teaching you tips and techniques to sharpen your professional skills and increase your overall motivation to help you achieve your goals in life.
“We don’t need another hero.” -Tina Turner I sat down for an hour with one of America’s story masters, Mark Brown, and here are some of my thoughts. Do you want more influence? Our influence comes from our ability to connect. Our ability to connect comes from what we share in common with others. We all have some things in […]
If you are in sales, you’re probably doing it wrong. I know. I was there—FOR YEARS. You go to the trainings, study all of the flyers, pamphlets, and brochures, and you know every feature of your product or service. You are a professional, you know your stuff, and you are ready to step in and be the hero! Before you […]
It started when she found a random ad on Facebook. Remote Year. Michelle signed up to do ten countries and twelve locations in one year. What I love most about her adventure is there were no concessions made. “I didn’t want to go on this journey thinking or having people say, ‘You didn’t succeed, but at least you had a […]
If you knew you would be 100% successful at getting an appointment with your ideal customer, what would that do for you? One meeting can change everything. What if you could to that 100 times, with 100% effectiveness? How long would it take for your business to be where you want it to be? If I told you that there […]
I am writing this just before “transition week” for our family—where we change locations. For me, this part of my life preaches the importance of transition. That period of “in-between.” How I transition makes all the difference. Mind shifts, activity changes, and motivation can reverse. This is the place of momentum or directional disintegration. Our travels show this on a […]
“Sales is the ONE thing that I will NEVER do.” -Donnie Tuttle circa 2002. Before I fell in love with the greatest profession on earth (sales), I was petrified by the idea of influencing others and asking them for their business. The granddaddy of all of those fears for me was the closing question. Sixteen years later, it has become […]
How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do you win big? One small victory at a time. Jim Stryker, who is in the elite club as far as production and leadership, breaks down high achievement into a mindset and small “base hits” that add up to big results. Jim says that victory begins with the bed—it’s […]
Why aren’t you living the life you want? What’s holding you back? Have you ever been binary in your thinking (meaning you have to choose A or B)? I have. I can’t do this AND that. I can’t be a good parent AND a top producer. I can’t work hard AND travel. I can do this OR I can do […]
Many have been there before. Working a job that is absolutely soul-sucking. Chelsea Fournier was a young, jet-setting, up-and-coming attorney of business law. She excelled. She crushed it. And…she absolutely hated what she was doing. Her life was characterized by success, money, insomnia, and stress. “I realized that a physical change was needed,” she said. That’s just what she did. […]
America’s trusted voice on money and business, Dave Ramsey is a personal money management expert and extremely popular national radio personality. His seven bestselling books—Financial Peace, More Than Enough, The Total Money Makeover, EntreLeadership, Dave Ramsey’s Complete Guide to Money, The Legacy Journey, and Smart Money Smart Kids—have sold more than 10 million copies combined. By age 26, he had […]
Terri Rickard is the Founder and President of Southwestern Travel. She began her career with the Southwestern Family of Companies in 2012 as the Executive Assistant to the CEO. In her role as Executive Assistant, she took on a major project to create an internally managed travel program for 16 operating divisions, managing over $5 million in annual travel spending. […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn., January 28, 2019 – Southwestern Consulting, a member company of Southwestern Family of Companies, announces today the promotion of Christa Acevedo to senior partner. As senior partner and director of operations and recruiting, she will oversee the creation of new systems and processes to help the company continue to grow. She will work in tandem with […]
Lars Tewes is the Managing Director of SBR Consulting, a leading sales performance consultancy. He has over 25 years of experience in creating sales force effectiveness in businesses around the globe. In 2002, his passion for professional selling and sales transformation led him to co-found SBR Consulting. He tackles the issues of business development from a strategic viewpoint through implementing […]
Bruce Black has over 40 years of C-level business experience building several high-performance companies as a founder, leader, entrepreneur, and CEO. For the last ten years, Black has used much of that prior business knowledge to help private middle-market business owners improve their company’s performance, lower their risk profile, and achieve maximum value in a sale. Black’s firm, IBG Business, was […]
Every day I realize more and more the significance of one particular skill. This skill is so valuable that it will make you a standout in any area of life, no matter what kind of obstacles you may face. Regardless of what it is you are trying to improve, if you only put in the work when you’re motivated to […]
Barry Gottlieb started out his career as an educator. First, he was an elementary school teacher, then a school principal, and finally an instructor at both Santa Fe Community College and at the University of Florida. During his time at the university, Barry experienced a life-altering challenge. He was diagnosed with terminal cancer and was given just 3 to 6 […]
Hailed as one of the foremost authorities on marketing, franchising, and retail, Tom Feltenstein learned his trade from the grill up – insisting he got his doctorate degree as a senior marketing executive from McDonald’s Corporation as Ray Kroc’s disciple. After scaling the Golden Arches, he served as senior vice-president for the international, billion-dollar advertising agency, Bozell & Jacobs. Tom is […]
Martin Fridson is “perhaps the most well-known figure in the high yield world,” according to Investment Dealers’ Digest. At brokerage firms including Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Merrill Lynch, he became known for his innovative work in credit analysis and investment strategy. For nine consecutive years, he was ranked number one in high yield strategy in the Institutional Investor All America […]
Warren Struhl has spent the last 28 years starting, nurturing, and building businesses. Warren’s current business passion is MyPhoto, which is the world’s easiest way to take any digital photo and make it into a handcrafted photo product for walls, desks, and shelves. His television commercials can be seen nationally. At the age of 28, Warren founded his first business, […]
Debbie Turner recently retired after nearly three decades in the media business. Most recently, she was the Vice President of Television Operations for the E.W. Scripps Company, overseeing 33 stations in 24 markets. Prior to the merger of Scripps and Journal Communications in 2015, Turner was the Executive Vice President of Journal Broadcast Group, responsible for the group’s television stations […]
