Nov
18
6 Ways to Getting an Accountant
November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
A practiced accountant can have numerous services apart from merely taking upkeep of your income tax issues. Engaging a dependable and efficient accountant can alleviate you of particular fiscal strains or troubles you might otherwise run across without specific accounting reinforcement. An accountant can be reckoned a valuable investment not only for sizeable commercial enterprises [...]
Nov
18
Home Business Expert: Network Marketing & The Stay At Home Mom, The Perfect Match
November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Do you want to know whether direct sales works for a stay at home mom or not? If you are a mom, and if you are planning to start your own enterprise from home, then you will surely be glad with the answer. Yes, it is true, direct sales and the stay at home mom [...]
Nov
18
The Secret to Sales Marketing Success
November 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
One concept in sales marketing that is so under used but will bring you out of sales mediocrity to fortune and fame is a Unique Selling Proposition or USP. Focusing on the USP in every advertising and sales marketing effort is the key to creating super successful products and services.
The one main reason you need [...]
Nov
17
Sales Tip: Use Social Dynamics To Control Sales Appointments
November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Many areas of selling that I’ve studied and taught to others are rarely, if ever, known and used in the world of professional selling. One of those is the science of social dynamics – before I ever began learning it myself and including it in my training, I’d never before seen it used in sales.
Social [...]
Nov
17
Cold Calling - Top 5 Reasons To Avoid It
November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Cold calling, once the only method of sales prospecting, no longer works in today’s world. Here are the top five reasons to avoid it:
1. Cold calling makes you look desperate.
We all know that people want to do business with those who are successful; however, cold calling makes you look totally unsuccessful! Prospects think if you’re [...]
Nov
17
Cold Calling Rapidly Disappearing
November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
As more and more people enter the sales profession, less and less are utilizing cold calling as their prospecting technique of choice.
Why is this happening? Why is cold calling going away?
There are several reasons. First of all, prospects have become so sick and tired of cold calling that they have reached the point of total [...]
Nov
17
A Standardized Company Sales Plan - Good Idea or Bad?
November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
I came across an article today that explains how companies can successfully implement a company-mandated sales plan and be sure that all of the salespeople are following it.
I found the advice given in that article to be deeply disturbing to me, especially since it is new and not from a twenty-year-old book from the old [...]
Nov
17
How to Design an Effective Cold Calling Script
November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Do you have an effective cold calling script that makes you feel confident when you pick up the phone? Or are you afraid and feeling like your telephone weighs twenty pounds? A key to building confidence and overcoming the fear of the phone is to have an effective cold calling script.
Although there are more effective [...]
Nov
15
Why Cold Calling Is Dead
November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Our world of selling is closed off from other areas of business that continue to adopt and embrace new, efficient ideas. I was reminded of this recently while re-reading Seth Godin’s “Permission Marketing.” Here’s a book that was intended for business owners and marketing executives, yet it provides a much-needed dose of common sense that [...]
Nov
12
Home Business Expert: Direct Sales & Personal Development Industry
November 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Direct sales, viewed through the angle of personal development industry provide a much larger canvas for a home business entrepreneur. It offers tremendous potential for the work from home entrepreneur who is looking for a handsome home business opportunity that fulfills his/her need for that extra dollar. The direct sales and personal development industry also [...]