How To Give Your Sales Job A Strategic Tune-up

In happens every year in June.Six months down and six months to go. What will you do differently during the second half of the year to improve your selling results? If you don't take time to think about what you'll do differently, you may not do anything different. Now that's... Read More

7 Steps to Selling Artwork

Selling arwork is easy when you follow a road map. In this article you learn the step by step guide to marketing art for profits. Now onto the plan!1. Decide that you want to sell your artwork!Now, I know this sounds ridiculous on the surface but look at it a... Read More

Like It or Not... You?re in SALES!

Mention the word sales or salesman and two out of three people get a little clammy under the skin. "I hate sales people and I could never do what they do!" is what many say at the mere thought of having to sell something. How wrong they are.Here is the... Read More

Really WINNING Over Customers

Three qualities are needed to sell anything in life. They are:1. STRENGTH.2. EMOTION.3. CONFIDENCE.If you are in sales or taking customer cancellation calls, exercising these three qualities well can help you be more successful.Your strength will come from the knowledge of your product and the ability to get back up... Read More

The 6 Secrets To Sales Success

There is no magic pill, trick, teqnique, system or secret to success. However there are many beliefs and habits that will bring you the desired results that you wish to have. It is your choice to develop the appropriate beliefs and habits that produce the results that you wish to... Read More

Customers Do Not Know How To Ask Good Questions ? That Is Your Job

Customers will ask you a question and you'll proceed to talk about your product. That is why you are not making more sales. It is your product knowledge that keeps getting in the way. Not that you do not have enough product knowledge ? trust me you have plenty. It... Read More

Objections Are Buying Signals? Usually!

How well do you handle objections?The fact is, most people think they handle objections with ease. The reality paints a different picture. I claim that you could have closed as much as 25% of last year's lost sales by simply understanding why the customer is objecting. Oh?and by keeping your... Read More

Simple Technique for Isolating Objections

To isolate any objection quickly you can use this effective and powerful sentence - "Aside from "that" is there anything else?"Here's how it works: You're a water softener salesperson, I'm your prospect. In the qualifying steps of the sales process you have identified a few concerns that I've shared with... Read More

Getting Them to Buy: The Two Most Important Pieces to the Sales Pitch

Why are some sales pitches more persuasive than others? Are the salespeople just naturally more convincing, or do they know secrets about creating a sales pitch that the rest of us don't?Well, in most cases, convincing salespeople use special elements within their pitches to help increase their persuasiveness. These elements... Read More

Shout At Your Customers - Theyre Hard of Hearing!

Some people say we live in the Information Age.I call it the Distraction Age.My new hometown is Distractionville. Everything and everybody shouts, "Hey, look at me!": E-mail, Internet, TV, telephone, newspaper, radio, family and friends. The Distraction Faction is as bright as the midday sun and louder than a freight... Read More

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Say What?!? Sales is a Profession?

What exactly is the sales profession? Without a common dialogue... Read More

Five Tips To Increase Your Sales

1. You could end your ad copy with a discounted... Read More

Attitude Insurance

Everyone knows the importance of having a positive attitude, especially... Read More

Cutting Through Stalls and Objections

It's the prospect. If stalls and objections frequently come up... Read More

Your Business Approach Can Make or Break a Business Deal

Every sales presentation should start with the approach, or introduction.... Read More

How Business Coaches Avoid the Yearly Training Feeding Frenzy

What is it with appraisals? In September and October there... Read More

Finding the Need is Only Part of the Sale

Many of us in sales are taught to believe that... Read More

The Processionary Caterpillar Syndrome Costs You Sales?

Some years ago I read and interesting story that illustrated... Read More

Focus On The Customer: The Only Secret To Closing

People are always looking for ways to close the sale.... Read More

Closing The Sale

Several weeks ago I asked my Newsletter subscribers to send... Read More

The Quickest Way To Increase Your Sales

The quickest way to increase sales is to make things... Read More

The ?Finding Common Ground? Sales Technique, Is A Myth!

Almost every book, manual, workshop or tape series teaching selling... Read More

Be Yourself

Here's the thing... you still have to make every marketing... Read More

In Sales You Get What You Expect

If your mind is set, you will be unable to... Read More

Four Ways To Increase Your Sales Fast... In 2-4 Weeks?

You built a very good web site...You have a great... Read More

7 Ways to Get to the Truth: When the Sale Disappears

Based on his most recent e-mail, "Everything looks good --... Read More

Change Takes Time

I am writing this at the Philadelphia Airport on my... Read More

Keep Sales Simple

For those of us working in the exciting world of... Read More

Psychology of Converting a Prospect to Money

If you want a truly successful business, you need to... Read More

Ten Ways to Super Charge Your Sales

1. Add a no-fee interactive game to your web site.... Read More

Build Rapport by Mirroring

Traditionally, salespeople look for something in the office that begs... Read More

Survival On The Road! A Resource For The On The Road Sales Professional

It makes no difference if you are a Saleswomen, a... Read More

Sales Skills for the Non Sales Professional

Have you ever wondered how in the heck you're going... Read More

It Is Not The Price That Is Keeping You From Making The Sale

Most salespeople are under the false belief that the lower... Read More

How To Go Perpendicular In Your Sales Territory

First and foremost are you thinking Strategically? "Do you have... Read More

Woo the Buyers Limbic Mind or All Your Sales Efforts are Wasted

If you've driven yourself crazy trying to figure out why... Read More

Smart Discounting: The Right Way To Discount Your Products

If a store had a great discount in the middle... Read More

A Sale in 30 Seconds? Its all in the Greeting

It has been said that a customer makes a decision... Read More

Sell Without Feeling Like A Used Car Salesman

Many business owners and professionals are appalled at the thought... Read More

Why Salespeople Fail

Since 1990 I have focused on the three primary barriers... Read More

Quit Talking and Listen! Give Clients and Prospects Your Undivided Attention

I have found that the best sales people are the... Read More

Sales Strategies: Its Not Who You Know - Its What You Know

We are all in sales. We all selling in every... Read More

Top 5 Characteristics of Great Salespeople

I am a big believer that great salespeople generally realize... Read More