February 11, 2012

Where to Find Sales Leads for Your Business

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Leads are the lifeblood of any sales organization and are also usually the most elusive element of any successful strategy. However, it is not easy finding quality leads if you are a small business. Learn where to find the right lead source for your business.

Big Marketing Power in a Little Word

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Proper English is a beautiful thing, but when it comes to succeeding in today’s loud and crowded marketplace, you benefit by catching people’s attention. Learn how to use the right words to accomplish your goals and get the response you need from customers.

How to Market and Sell Food Products to Grocery Stores

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Food and food-related products will always be in high demand. But the biggest challenge faced by food entrepreneurs is how to get their products in the grocery shelves. Learn how your food products can be accepted and sold in grocery stores.

Go Ahead and Fire Your Customer

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We all have at least one – a highly demanding customer. Despite everything we do for them, we are simply are not making any money from them. These unprofitable customers affects your bottom line profit. Learn how to deal with unprofitable customers.

What Did You Learn from the Last Sale You Lost?

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Chances are that your small or home business will lose sales. Do you take the time to study why you lost the sale? It is important to look at the reasons why you lost the sales, and make sure to incorporate the learnings in your next sales call.

Are You Ready to Meet the CEO?

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If you have managed to land that all-important meeting with a CEO, don’t delay in your preparation. Invest the effort and time now so you can win the account. Learn how to sell to a CEO.

The Best Information Comes From Short Questions

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There’s no better way to improve the quality of information you receive from a potential customer than by asking short questions. We all can recall far too many times when we’ve sat across the table from a customer we’re trying to help – and we know we can help, if they would just provide us information about their needs and goals.

20 Tips From a Sales Coach to Increase Sales Productivity

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For your business to succeed, it is important to sell more. Here are 20 quick tips to help you increase your sales productivity.

When Cutting Prices: Are You Giving Away Your Profit?

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Are you thinking of cutting your prices to win a customer? Remember this: Cutting your price to secure the initial deal only does one thing – it takes profit out of your pocket.

Turning Fool’s Gold into Gold

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The key to getting more sales is to understand more about how customers buy. Even salespeople with a lot of training make the mistake of focusing more on what they want to accomplish than on what the customer needs to know to make a buying decision.

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