Tips for Increasing Your Profits with Gift Certificates

Offering gift certificates is an excellent way of increasing sales by solving your customers' gift-giving problems. Often people would like to give your products as gifts, but are hesitant to choose a specific item for someone.I'm a jewelry artist, and when I realized I was losing sales to these potential... Read More

Selling Is Not A Dirty Word

Selling--a word that strikes terror in writers and professionals. We love to write. We love our work. We love to speak. We hate to SELL. Our print and eBooks may go unread because we don't get the word out. Our products and services don't sell because we don't include... Read More

Sell More: How to Get Motivated Buyers To Call You First

How many sales opportunities have you lost to competitors who seemed to have the inside track? It's likely your prospect purchased from their emotional favorite.Selling goes beyond communicating the value of your products and services. Selling is about communicating the value of doing business with you. It is about connecting... Read More

The Importance of Good Sales Leads

An important part of your business plan should be to generate a steady stream of qualified leads. Making sure that leads flow into your "pipeline" will be one of the most vital aspects of your overall business. This will be particularly true if your business is network marketing. You need... Read More

What Should I Charge?

People ask me, "What should I charge?"I say, "Ask your clients."If they are respectable professionals you want as clients, they will be honest with you and give you a fair price based on their experience, their need, and their ability to pay. They will not try to undercut you.And if... Read More

How To Make The Most Out of a Business Networking Event

You're not alone. Most people are uncomfortable walking into a roomful of strangers. But networking at business events can help you grow your business, as well as allow you to do hands-on marketing research. Learning to mingle and to follow-up with business networking contacts is crucial to your self-employment success.... Read More

Dropped Jaw Syndrome, Your Fastest, Most Reliable Market Test

Business owners should be more like doctors.Forget selling and start asking your customers where they hurt. Broken leg? Ulcer? Empty wallet?Don't sell, diagnose. And what are you as a doctor looking for? Well, of course: that ever-illusive, yet ever- profitable disease called Dropped Jaw Syndrome.OK, it may not be in... Read More

Value Based Pricing, Not Price Cutting

Special Requirements for Reprint: we ask only that you include Paul's name and resource box, and keep all hyperlinks as live links.Complete Article with Resource Box at end:Value Based Pricing, Not Price CuttingThe oldest tactic in the world to get a sale moving is to cut the price.And it does... Read More

How to Buy Wholesale Store Fixtures for Your Business

It may sound funny, but honestly, if you're opening up your own retail store the last thing you'll ever want to do again for the rest of your life is buy anything retail -- especially if it's for your own store. Buying your store fixtures wholesale is not only mandatory... Read More

Top 10 Ways to Sell your Product or Service While you Sleep - Part 1

Have you wasted valuable time and money on promotion that doesn't work? Have your announcements and news releases been ignored? Have you been too quiet about getting the word out how your product or service will help solve people's problems? Most of us are passionate about our work. We put... Read More

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Dr. Seuss?s 3-Step Selling Process

Hello Everyone: Here's a unique look at learning how tosell:... Read More

How to Generate Leads on the Internet

In the last decade, the Internet has become a major... Read More

It Isnt A Sale Until Youre Paid

Back in the days when I sold for CTV and... Read More

Solution-Sell is a Myth!

Who among us is not already up to here with... Read More

Three Big Ol Tips for Better Sales Letters

Growing up in the South, I used the phrase "big... Read More

Warming Up To Cold Calls

Will you do just about anything, including sending out hundreds... Read More

To Sell Successfully, You Have to Be Willing to Be Different

We are complex. We confidently assert that we are independent... Read More

Top 10 Ways to Sell your Product or Service While you Sleep - Part 2

Part one of this article is available at ... Read More

3 Ways To Sell and Have Fun Doing It

There are many ways to sell and have fun doing... Read More

Stop Telemarketers, Do Not Call List or Not

American consumers have spoken and have done so loudly registering... Read More

Is Sales Profession an Oxymoron?

If you are in Sales, you have probably heard these... Read More

Complacency and Fear are Sales Busters

Prospecting is the engine that propels anyone in sales. Without... Read More

Why Are We All So Afraid?

What can strike terror into the heart of even the... Read More

Dont Let Rattlesnakes Scare You

Recently I was out trail running along the South Fork... Read More

Getting Referrals

ReferralsA substantial part of your business can come from referrals.... Read More

Handling Objections

HANDLING OBJECTIONSSales presentation is not always going to be plain... Read More

Can You Use Hynotic Like Statements To Sell More Products?

As I become more successful with my internet business I... Read More

How To Get Rich Giving Away Something Free

The best of all worlds is to have a product... Read More

6 Ways To Get More From Your Promotions

1. Settle On The Right Way ForwardThe purpose of your... Read More

Long Sales Letters vs. Short Sales Letters

Everywhere I turn, I'm being asked to weigh in on... Read More

The Problem With Technology At The Point Of Sale In Financial Services

BackgroundThere's a conundrum that currently exists between the customer and... Read More

Closing Sales Is Not A Problem, It?s A Process

In my opinion, the most overrated topic in sales training... Read More

Cracking The Billable Hours Ceiling

How many of you made as much money as you... Read More

Your Profit is in Your Follow-up: A System for Increased Sales Conversion

No matter what you sell--products, services, or causes--one of the... Read More

Nine Keys to Make your Sales Copy Convincing

Would you pay $12,500 to discover the keys to great... Read More

Selling To Your Difficult Person

We all have people whom we find difficult. We don't... Read More

Count Down To An Advert

There are hundreds of books available to teach you how... Read More

Handshake Intimidation

In some situations, attempting to intimidate the other person will... Read More

Sell More: How to Get Motivated Buyers To Call You First

How many sales opportunities have you lost to competitors who... Read More

Selling Is Not A Dirty Word

Selling--a word that strikes terror in writers and professionals. We... Read More

Whats So Special About You? Defining Your USP

Your prospect is in the market for a widget, just... Read More

Lance Has What It Takes

Lance has what it takes and then some.Did you know... Read More

The Benefits of Buying Used Store Fixtures

The difference between antique or vintage store fixtures and used... Read More