Tips for Businesses that Accept Credit Cards Let's face it, many businesses cringe when they think of dealing with banks when they are looking to set up merchant credit card accounts. The truth is that in order to be in business in this day and age as a merchant, you must be prepared to accept and process credit cards.
How to Build Sales With Extended Benefits An area that can become profitable for many businesses in building the offer within sales copy is selling (or "upselling" customers with) extended services, products or packages, also often called the "extended warranty."
Fundraising Events – Make Your Fundraising Efforts Pay! Top tips to make sure you get the most from your efforts! There's nothing worse than reflecting on a fundraising event and feeling it didn't go as well as it could have done or, more importantly, it didn't raise as much as it should have!
Freelancers, Sub-contactors, and Creative Folks: A Testimonial is Worth 100 Cold Calls! If you are a freelancer, subcontrator, designer, artist, decorator, or any type of creative person and are making (or trying to make) your living in any creative field, then you owe it to yourself to read this article to make more money and be happier doing what you love.
Freelancers, Subcontractors, Creative Folks: How to Use Seminars to Promote Yourself If you are a freelancer, subcontrator, designer, artist, decorator, or any type of creative person and are making (or trying to make) your living in any creative field, then you owe it to yourself to read this article to make more money and be happier doing what you love.
Freelancers, SubContractors, & Creative Folks - How to Charge What You Are Worth If you are a freelancer, subcontrator, designer, artist, decorator, or any type of creative person and are making (or trying to make) your living in any creative field, then you owe it to yourself to read this article to make more money and be happier doing what you love.
Selling Strategy - 5 Ways To Success The Skill we need is to know how to sell. After all, once we drive traffic to our site and compel them to stay with our eye pleasing graphics, WHAT we say and HOW we say it will be the difference between success and failure.
5 Ideas for Writing Effective Sales Letters Sales letters, sent via e-mail or snail mail, are an effective and inexpensive way to get your message out. Even if your letter goes out to thousands of people, it can give the feel of a personal communication — IF you write it in a direct and conversational tone.
Open Your Introduction With A Firecracker Moment A regular elevator speech no longer works, thus, it's
important to light a firecracker into the moment. Marketing
master, Catherine Franz, shares with you two ways you can
fire-up your introductions whether you are business owner,
in sales, or as an employee explaining what you do.
How To Set Goals and Achieve Them Wishful thinking will take you nowhere. Set goals,write them on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense.See them as often as possible. Visualize and see that you have already achieved your goals. Repeat your goals in your mind. Make it a positive obsession.
Six Steps to Creating Online Presentations for Telephone Selling How much extra money could you make by closing just one or two additional sales a day? You can double, or even triple, the effectiveness of your telephone selling by showing prospects why they should buy from you, instead of just telling them.
Leave a Better Voice Mail Message Yesterday I received a call from a financial planner named Richard doing a cold call. My policy is to always return those calls which help me to understand why I would personally benefit from doing business with a sales person. This one didn't, so it ended up getting deleted.
This is what he said...
Smooth Sailing (Selling) In The Second Half of The Year You can make a difference in the second half! You can't do it by doing the same things the same way. You can make a difference in the second half every year! You can do it by thinking differently and being different. For example:
How To Take The Right Steps To Increase Your Selling Results Steps - it is unrealistic for most salespeople to expect to make a sale in a single step. Most sales don't end after a single phone call. If you're selling a complex product or service you won't get the order after a single face-to-face sales call. There are a number of steps involved in making a sale. If you want to make more sales, more quickly, more profitably, and do it more often you need your own personalized selling model.
Hurrican Selling Styles Effective selling depends a lot on having a proper selling style. Salespeople must learn to combine style with substance to win over their prospects.
The Best Day In The Week Here a are few practical ideas for salespeople on how to make every day the best day of the week!
First, Fast, And Foremost . . . First - being before all others. Fast - moving or able to move quickly. Foremost - first in rank, order, or place. Wouldn't you like to be first, fast, and considered foremost in your business. Obviously, the correct answer is yes. Here are nine tips, hints, and practical ideas to get you on your way. These sales tips work.
In Sales Service Means Business Some businesses flourish while others slowly fade away. There's usually a good reason. Salespeople need to put the serve into customer service.
What It Takes To Be A Champion The business definition of Champion apllies to almost any industry.
Champions are leaders, they put others before themselves. Success leaves clues.
The Language of Blogs The drawbacks of citizen journalism is considered and the responsibility of those of us who write to communicate clearly is emphasized.
Staying Safe In A High Risk Market Did you know that 80% of the price movement in a stock or a mutual fund is determined by the overall market conditions and by the company's sector? This is the ...
Family Album In The Digital Age Back then it was simple - you take the picture, you print it and put it in your family album. But now you have a digital camera. So do your cousins, uncles, aun...
How to Wallpaper Like a Pro! Wallpapering is an experience not to be feared. You can beautify any room in your home or office, simply by applying wallpaper. It is easy to do, and the result...
The Best Test I spoke to a group of salespeople in Kansas City last week as they kicked off their new team. It was exciting to see them get excited about making a difference ...
7 Ways to Know Your Child Why is it that we search for other people to tell us about our child? We read endless books and articles and all the theories about temperament, intelligence a...
Vary Your Writing Style and Win Readers Fact: readers are put to sleep if your writing begins to 'drone'. Vary your sentence beginnings, your sentence length and your sentence structure - and watch y...
6 Reasons Why Using Flash is a BIG Mistake Don't let your web designer fool you into having an all flash site. Learn why you could be throwing money away by using flash.
Creating Multiple Streams Of Income Part 1 There are ways of becoming rich overnight! Your rich relative passes away and leaves you their entire estate, or you win the lotto. Which one will happen to you...
Edible Flowers in Your Garden Flowers can be an integral part of cooking. While most of us are aware that violets can be candied and nasturtiums can be eaten in salads, there's a bounty of f...
Coca-Cola - A Value Stock? Don't get me wrong. I really like Coke as a company. Its brand is as American as can be, and yet over 70% of all its sales are derived from outside of North Ame...
15 Common Investing Pitfalls I touched briefly about common investing pitfalls previously. Here is a more comprehensive list. Some of it may happen to the more experienced investors as well...
The Power of Ice Using ice to treat injuries is one of the oldest methods of pain control. Proven to be safe and effective at reducing swelling, relieving pain and decreasing m...
