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Kash Hasan tells us about the GDS Bristol headline fundraiser which took place in June to raise funds for the GDS Foundation. GDS Bristol proposed a 72 hour jail break distance challenge for their headline fundraising activity for the GDS Foundation http://www.gdsfoundation.com/ The contestants were Luke Sartain, Pramel Shah, Darren Harvey, Christian Szaruta, Johnny Spragg, Tony Arumugan, Penny Stapleton and Farai Musa. The challenge started at 8.30am Monday 6th June, at GDS Bristol, and the goal was to get the furthest distance from the office in a 72-hour countdown with a budget of £50 and whatever they can fit in a rucksack. Contestants detailed their journey on a video dairy and provided receipts and a contact number at their final destination to prove they had actually made the journey. Each team was supported with fundraising events in the lead up to the 72 hour distance challenge. Let's see how they got on....   The Original "Pirate" Blaggers - Jonath

You want to increase your sales, achieve higher earnings and progress in your career? It’s natural: you are a sales person. Here’s the thing… invest in yourself 1 st , and the results will quickly follow. Being a sales person is one of the most enjoyable, challenging and rewarding business tasks. Selling and increasing revenues is critical to any companies’ growth. There are many books written on or about sales. Many are great and deserve your time and attention if you want to increase your skills, ability and earnings. Kash Hasan, Sales Director, GDS, recommends important books for salespeople that will help you produce the results that you and your company need. These are classic books that will help you build your confidence, knowledge, earnings and career. How to Master the Art of Selling  by Tom Hopkins This is a book I 1 st read while working for GDS in Australia a few years ago. It gives you an excellent grounding in some of the basic techniq

One of the reasons I love selling is its freedom of expression. Sales is one of the few professions left in which you can be yourself and express who you are. This freedom you’ve won for yourself by successfully competing where resourcefulness and perseverance are demanded and highly valued. No activity is more vital to the business’s health than selling; no activity is more dependent on individual initiative than selling. Now the 2nd reason I love selling is that you have the freedom to become as successful as you’d like to be. In this profession, no one limits your income but you. There are no income ceilings. You may question this statement. You may think the limit is the highest income anyone has yet made selling. Does that mean it’s not possible to earn more? Of course not. Anyone of you could go on to become a Manager, Sales Director, VP or CEO.. It’s all entirely possible. The 3 rd reason I love selling is because it’s a daily challenge. You can go into lots of jobs and