April 7th, 2008

Sales Coaching Tip - Action Continues To Be For Few Sales Professionals

Whether your goal is to increase sales, improve customer service or just have greater personal sales success, unless you take action you will continue to be one of the many instead of one of the few. Yesterday in talking with a prospect, I once again realized why so many businesses fail to reach their full potential - a lack of action.

Over 6 months ago, when I first meet this prospect, he mentioned that his company had just received a high customer service rating from the national manufacturer that his company represents. I suggested that he send out press releases to local newspapers and any organizations that he belongs to. Sales Coaching Tip: If you want to increase sales, people (your prospects) must how you are different from your competitors.

March 11th, 2008

The Problem With Diets

Weight loss is such a big issue in this country that the industry catering to it is a multi-billion dollar one. This is rather amazing given the fact there is a significant problem with diets.

A diet is essentially a change in a pattern of behaviors. You probably never really thought of it that way, but this is an accurate portrayal. The change of behaviors occurs in what you eat, when you eat and how much you eat. If you conform with the dictated changes, you typically lose weight. If you do not, you don’t.

March 2nd, 2008

3 Simple Ratios To Fuel Skyrocketing Success In Closing Sales - Part 3

Last time we discussed how no matter what you do, what business you’re in, what you’re involved in pursuing, what relationship you’re trying to build or impact, the old saying that “nothing happens until somebody sells something” is always true. There are 3 sets of foundational “R.A.T.I.O.S.” that are simple to learn, easy to apply, and will significantly improve your sales “closing” success rate. The most successful salespeople effectively employ all three sets of RATIOS. I call them Attitude RATIOS, Ability RATIOS and Action RATIOS. The great news is that anyone can learn them, get better at them, and remove the fear of selling while increasing the successful results of their selling experiences. In this article we’ll complete this series and take a very simple and brief look at the third set - the Action R.A.T.I.O.S.

February 27th, 2008

Rapport - Nlp Builds Agreement In 5 Steps

It is remarkable how well-adapted human beings are for agreement. Our neurology has evolved to facilitate connection with other human beings, to allow a group to know more and do more than even its most productive members could accomplish on their own. Different parts of our brain interact to allow us to agree with each other on multiple layers. The different agreements interact so that it becomes easier to agree. NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) and integrated thinking provide models for the next step in the evolution of agreement.

Integrate these five layers of agreement to establish common ground and move forward with any individual or group:

February 6th, 2008

What Does “service” Really Mean?

We’ve all been there — the day long training / motivational program where we will
instantly learn how to improve sales and crush the competition, right?

After a period of expert presentation, you inevitably experience the “audience response”
section of the program. The first question is barely out of the leader’s mouth and hands
fly upward. There’s always one person who just has to answer the question before
everyone else and show the whole room “who’s really number one”.

November 24th, 2007

Private Label Rights Vs Resale Rights

There has been a lot of hype and talk about resale rights and private label rights among internet marketers. Unfortunately, not everybody really understands the differences, much less what the actual implications and potential value are.

Firesales often tout their value by including resale rights or private label rights. Both of these concepts have their own merits but the private label rights can increase the profitability of your purchase many times over and make it much easier to build a good name for yourself as well as making you among the more easily recognizable figures in internet marketing.


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