Making Ideas Happen

“It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”
-Scott Belsky

Whether you’re building your first business, developing a new sales/marketing strategy, launching a social media campaign, or if you have a big idea that you want to bring to your boss, keep the quote above in mind from Scott Belsky. His quote is a perfect outline for making any idea come to life.

Step 1: Have an idea

Step 2: Make that idea happen

Whether you’re a business professional or someone looking to generate positive change in your organization, you can make your idea come to life by taking clear and manageable steps. Here, we outlined 5 steps that you can take to make your idea happen right now:

Create, define, and outline your idea
Ask and answer: What purpose does my idea serve?
Define steps and timeframes for implementing your idea
Imagine all outcomes, both positive and negative
Give yourself time to allow your idea to mature before presenting

If you’re stuck, these 5 steps will lay a foundation upon which you can build your idea, anticipate outcomes, and determine if it serves a need in your company, market, or industry. Your idea may be the lever that unleashes new sales revenue; unprecedented efficiency; a positive culture; or simply a happier you. No idea is too big or too small for action to be taken

What are your ideas? What are the steps you’re taking to make those ideas happen? Sometimes making an idea happen starts with getting it down on paper, or hashing it out with someone. Drop us a note. We’d love to hear about your ideas, and discuss them with you!

His guidance, leadership, and friendship are PRICELESS

He has mentored me to achieve amazing professional goals without losing sight of the most important part of my life as a wife and mother. His guidance, leadership, and friendship are PRICELESS!!

Brian is a Full Service Mentor

Over the years, Brian has not only mentored the sales team, but also our Department Managers throughout the corporation developing personal goals, department goals, leadership skills, and execution.

A Great Motivator

He has been a great motivator for me, my team, and our organization’s management team. Outside of the impressive sales increase, there is an abundance of projects and initiatives that Brian has successfully led I would like to highlight some of them that ultimately changed my life both professionally and personally.

Learned How to Grow Territory

During the time I work with Brian, he challenged me, showed me how to sell and how to win in almost any circumstance. Brian helped me grow my sales territory (Chicago) from nothing to a $1,000,000+ book of business.

The Summit Solutions is not a one-fits-all process

Is the Summit Solutions a one-fits-all process that will lead to selling more? No, there are plenty of national programs with regional support that will sell you on that. I will tell you from my experience, they are outdated, not personalized, and don’t work. They typically also only focus on the sales department. Brian’s method is to work with the whole organization, while stressing the importance of creating a company culture that people want to be a part of.

As the VP Sales Manager, I was initially skeptical

As the VP Sales Manager, I was initially skeptical and guarded as to why we had to bring in an outside sales expert. I perceived this as an insult to my abilities and the performance of our team. Today I can honestly say that the association, teachings, and concepts Brian presented were the BEST thing to happen to our Company, myself, and our team.

When we started with Summit Learning Solutions we had 62 employees

When we started with Summit Learning Solutions we had 62 employees mostly serving the state of Michigan. Now, we have nearly 200 employees serving 17 states; and we’re still growing consistently. Moreover, when we started with Summit we sold about 3-5 Million a year in new business; now we sell 13 Million a year in new business.

They sourced and hired our first-ever sales team

They sourced and hired our first-ever sales team and created the sales and marketing plan to start the process. They designed our sales team’s compensation plans, trained them on appropriate sales methodology, and lead our overall strategy. Candidly, we thought they were way too optimistic in their sales projections. It turns out they undersold the possibilities. The program was very successful, very fast.

We are a better, healthier, and the more performance-driven company

We are a better, healthier, and the more performance-driven company now thanks to Brian’s training and support. Most importantly, it’s more profitable.