Keep Prospecting Simple

The Prospecting process has to be kept simple, or sales people won't do it. We all hate to Prospect, so simplicity in Prospecting is important.

Make Your Sales Soar By Focusing On The Customer's Needs

All too often in an effort to make a sale, a salesperson tries to promote the product or service to a prospective customer in a forceful manner and ends up losing the sale. Such sales marketing ignores the customer's needs. To be effective any form of sales marketing as to have the right approach, which is identifying the customer's needs.

What Makes The Sale: The Sale Or The Salesperson?

While shopping with my wife one day, we came across a boutique shop that attracted A LOT more customers than the other two shops next to it. Want to know their secret? 2 words: customer service.

Free Offer Rejection

Take a good look at your free offer. Does it require that you or your employees enter the home of your customer? Does it require your customer to purchase something or give you unnecessary personal information? A “yes” to any of these questions will lower your customer’s comfort level and push them farther from you and your product.

10 Abundant Sales Principles: Part I

How would you feel if you didn't have to compete for sales? How would you feel if you experienced no fear, stress or anxiety in your professional and personal life? All people who enjoy enduring success have certain underlying principles in place that guide their every action. Once these principles are firmly entrenched, successful business people are free to build a process that delivers predictable results.

How to Write a Sales Letter that Sells

With a crowded global marketplace, and with thousands of products and services crowding supermarket shelves, shop windows, and magazine pages, more and more companies are employing clever methods to market their wares. Advertisements run for mere seconds on television, but with enough noise and color to both attract and annoy prospective customers. Billboards crowd city skylines and feature models and movie actors endorsing a product they might not even care about. How can you break through the thousands of marketing ploys and make your voice heard?

Who Uses eBay And Why

This article offers information on the typical types of users of eBay and the reasons for their doing so.

A Hot Dog Sales Lesson

If You sold Hot Dogs, would people drive 64 miles to do business with you? What can you do to make your business an experience people will talk about? This is my sales lesson from the Worlds Best Chili Hot Dog stand. When you bite into these hot dogs, the mixture of flavors explodes in your mouth.

Why People Really Buy Anything

So few sales people ever spend time understanding why their customers actually buy their products. But before you can master the sales process and be uber successful you need to understand the buying process. Read this to launch your sales career to new heights and gain the winning edge.

Listening Is The Key To Selling

Sharpen your listening skills and make more sales.

I'm A Reluctant Salesperson

An Extrovert is someone who gets his or her energy from being around others an Introvert is someone who is energized by being alone. When an Extrovert is left alone for long periods of time, he becomes lethargic. Conversely, an Introvert will be exhausted and drained after a day of social interaction.

Overcoming Sales Phobia

If you're like most business owners and self employed professionals you started a business because you have a particular talent, skill, or ability - not because you like to sell.

The Ice Cream Man's Top Ten Sales Techniques

Do people come running when you're in town or on their block? Do they merely put up with you and avoid you when they can? Sure, you say, selling ice cold popsicles and ice cream on a hot day is one thing, but selling your multi-faceted widget week after week is another. I agree timing is everything, but still . . . if you could bottle the customer service of the ice cream salesman, you might do better at selling your own products.