“I wanted to let you know that this past week, my company held its annual sales kick-off meeting. At this year’s meeting I received “The Salesman of the Year Award”. It is the result of a lot of hard work and a system for selling that YOU helped bring to me. Is it possible I might have been able to achieve this accomplishment someday with or without your help? Who knows? But let’s face it, you have increased my sales knowledge exponentially and that’s an incredible part of what got me through. In summary, the reason for this note wasn’t to gloat about my accomplishment, but to thank you for a job well done and to let you know that what you’re doing has helped make a difference for me personally. You have made a REAL salesman out of a guy who used to think all he wanted in life was to play guitar for Aerosmith…”