Tag Archive for ‘business sales’
Jump-Start Your Sales With Help From Our Sponsors
Just launched your business but now need sales? Here are two practical tips:
1. Attend a BebePaluzza consumer product tradeshow in a city near you. This is an affordable way to display your product to thousands of consumers and earn money at the same time. An added benefit is that you can ask for [...]
10 Telephone Sales Tactics that Work
From sending singing telegrams and direct mail to e-mail marketing, tradeshows and mixers, salespeople go to extraordinary lengths to avoid making cold calls. The reality is that even in our internet-based world, few tools are more effective and necessary for generating sales and sales appointments than the good old telephone. And [...]
Have a Great Story About How You Got Your First Customer?
I’m still looking for stories about creative and unusual ways our members have gotten their first customers after they launched their businesses for inclusion in my upcoming book.
Did you have a chance meeting at a conference, dinner party or doctor’s office? Did you make a long-shot cold call and get a surprising result? Did you [...]
Give Your Customer More Than You Take
Customers don’t want to be sold. They want to make the decision themselves, not have it thrust upon them. They want to buy from someone who listens to them and demonstrates a sincere interest in solving their problems.
Truthfully, even listening isn’t enough.
I want to suggest a sales philosophy that focuses on “giving” to [...]
Contribute Your Story to My New Book!
For my new book, which will be published next summer, I’m looking for stories about creative and unusual ways our members have gotten their first customers after they launched their businesses.
Did you have a chance meeting at a conference or dinner party? Did you make a long-shot cold call and get a surprising result? Did [...]
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