2009's Most Controversial Blog Posts

Sales Machine is a community. While I'm the "moderator", the point is to involve you guys in discussing issues that are important to sales professionals. Therefore, the most "successful" posts are the ones that generate the most "controversy."

With that in mind, here are the fifteen Sales Machine posts of 2009 that generated the most discussion:

SALES SKILLS

• Top 10 Reasons Your Presentations Sucks
• Reach Any Executive in 10 Easy Steps
• Quiz: What's the Best Opening Remark?
• Get That Prospect Off Your List!
• To Sell More, Scare Customers Spitless!
• Cold Calling = Dialing for Dollars
• How to Hijack Someone Else's Meeting

• Top 5 Lies that Marketing Tells Sales
• Is Sales Forecasting Worth the Effort?
• The Four P's of Marketing=Fuzzy Brain BS
• What Killed GM? Brand Marketing.
• Sales and Marketing Jobs That Will Vanish
• Why Your Marketing Isn't Effective
• How Branding Can Kill Your Profit
• 10 Worst Brand Blunders of 2009