Every day we see helpless folks on TV losing their jobs in processing, manufacturing, and in service industries.  They are interviewed by TV journalists, who don’t seem to really care, and the poor folks who are losing their jobs talk about how they don’t know what they will do or what will happen to them.  Uncle Billy has a question for you.  Have you...

One of the most misunderstood concepts in the Sales Goat world is the concept of, “Goal Setting”.    For a Sales Goat,   “Goal Setting”, is meant to be an exciting opportunity and part of the formation of a path to sales success and great financial achievement.  However, in the real world of , “Sales Goat Goal Setting”, weak Sales...

There can be no doubt that Super Bowl Sunday is culmination of the greatest Sales Goat week in American sport!  The National Football League and their sponsors, and every other Sales Goat who can tag their products on to the Super Bowl’s coat tails, are trying to sell us everything they want us to buy, whether we want to buy it or not!  The greatest and oldest...

The world is finally seeing the power of the internet and the new phone technologies in the face of enormous protest revolutions in repressed countries around the world bringing dictators tumbling down by cell phone.  The human desire to have a phone, and internet contact, is greater than the fear of a repressive government or thugs who want isolate and beat the...

If you are a mortgage loan officer the big mystery you must solve to be successful is, “What is it that Realtors want from a Loan Officer?” As a newbie or green pea loan officer you sit in awe of the top producing Loan Officers who joke with their realtors and will even tell their Realtors, “No, ” or “Be patient”, or,...

A simple visit to any retirement class will reveal the destruction of the small gains simple folks have made in trying to put together a retirement for themselves. The elimination of property appreciation from the American homeowners landscape took with it the hopes of most folks to retire any time soon. The percentages show us that most retired folks are trying to...

This truism, made famous by the great W. C. Fields, has never been truer than it is today. The regulations that are coming down on the sales industry, particularly around mortgage loan officers and stock brokers, are designed to save, “normal folks”,  from dishonest sales goat tactics and methods. These methods utilized by unethical and predatory sales...