SeedSeller Academy

I had a lot of feedback from my last podcast on aging gracefully, with a couple of questions that kept coming up. I’m going to handle one of those questions in this podcast and the other one next week. The question I...

Make Sure You Don’t Age Gracefully One of the greatest compliments I ever received was from one of my dealers back in the days when I was still managing a sales territory. It was a beautiful spring morning and we had...

How long have you been selling seed? What was your level of enthusiasm for the job the first year you started selling and what is it now? Has your love for calling on farmers increased, stayed the same or decreased...

The average 4-year-old child asks over 400 questions a day. They’re constantly using their brains. It’s been found that children use their brains twice as often as adults when it comes to learning and putting that...

Do You Hug Your Customers? I know what you’re thinking right now.  Just hearing the title of this podcast caused you to think that Rod has really lost it this time. I thought he was crazy when he said he wears a sport...

Are Your Customers Failing 99% of the Time? Research is full of trials that don’t work. For example, plant breeding is 99% failure and only 1% success. That means 99% of the time plant breeders fail to achieve their...

Dr. Dennis Charney, a researcher and expert in neurobiology and the treatment of mood and anxiety disorders at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York said, “The Brain is Plastic, the more you use it, the better it gets. The...

Have you ever wanted to improve your performance, that is, get physically or mentally better?  I’ve never been one to turn down an opportunity to improve. I’ve made many changes over the years that I thought would...

 didn’t watch the Grammy Awards a week ago, but you couldn’t miss seeing the highlights of the night broadcasted by the news channels. Dozens of artists young and old received awards for their new, and most popular...

Betty Reese said, “If you think you’re too small to be effective, you have never been in the dark with a mosquito.” Wow, that’s an experience I’m sure we’ve all had. That lone, little mosquito can be very effective...

Charles M. Schulz said, “Life is like a ten-speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”  Having multiple gears on a bicycle gives the rider options when confronted with varying environments like wind, rain,...