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  • 7 methods to increase sales  By : Edward Hill
    Fortunately there are a number of how in which you'll be able to enhance gross sales and enhance conversions by integrating your sales and advertising functions:
  • Elevator Speech Tips - How Many Different Versions Do You Need?  By :
    http://www.30secondElevatorSpeech.com Do you need different versions of your elevator speech?
  • Transparent Negotiating Includes Ploys & Techniques  By : Peter McKeon
    The deal is heating up and you suspect you're on your manner to selling success. Avoid “hitting a snag” which will sabotage the client relationship or the deal that you have been working on.
  • Understanding People – The Best Way to Maximise Sales  By : Cherise Owen
    In the current economic climate, sales professionals have a higher commercial importance than ever befroe and need to ensure that they take all steps to maximise their performance. This article looks at the basics of NLP and its application within the sales process.
  • Sales Training Tip: How Does one convince someone to buy from you?  By : Peter ODonoghue
    How do you convince some one to buy from you? - Don't assumme it is all concerning the price. Browse this text to seek out out that it's rarely regarding the price and what you'll do concerning it
  • The Customer Needs An Expert  By : Steve Sellers
    When you are dealing with your prospects and customers online, you absolutely must project yourself as the expert in your field. If you don't you will have a miserable experience and lose sales.
  • 11 Rules for Selling to a Skeptic  By : rajiv jindal
    Let's face it: the greatest accomplishment for a member of the sales community is closing a deal with a skeptic. Many who are proficient at this art agree that it is far more gratifying to convince someone who initially felt your product was not necessary that it indeed is, than to complete what the industry terms an "easy sell." Lucky for us all, plenty of doubters buy products and services everyday.
  • Sales Tips: Asking The Right Probing Questions  By : Rufus Shinra
    Asking questions and listening to the buyer’s needs are two fundamental and critical selling skills. Both aspects are important. You need to ask the right questions and listen to the answers. This process is the single best investment of your time.

    Follow steps that are similar to troubleshooting. Do not lead with selling a product; begin by asking, “What are the problems you’re experiencing?” You wouldn’t tell a Customer how to correct an email issue before you know what ...
  • Think Of It Like Dating  By : Carolyn McCormick, Your Success Coach For Life
    This particular marketing secret is one that is resisted by more people in business, and is also the very reason why many a business fails to generate the revenues they want and deserve.

    Successful marketing is a process of building a relationship of value and trust through a series of sequenced-steps.

    Think of it like dating. You would never ask someone to marry you on the first date, would you? Please, I hope not!

    Marketing is like dating. You go on several dates t...
  • Are You Speaking The Language Of Marketing?  By : Carolyn McCormick, Your Success Coach For Life
    Do you speak the Language of Marketing? Or the Language of Business?

    This is one of the biggest missed opportunities I see talented people make that cost them sales revenues. Let's define each language so you begin to distinguish between the two, and know when to use the appropriate one.

    When talking to prospects or new clients, I always ask the question, "Can you give me the three minute version of your business? That question can get someone talking for hours--literal...
  • Prospecting Tips  By : Wendy Weiss
    Frequently, salespeople feel that they need their prospect or customer more than the prospect or customer needs them…Here are some prospecting tips in order to succeed in sales.
  • How To Marry Many Times And Acquire A Marketing Fortune In 3 Easy Steps  By :
    First, let me make something very clear.

    Whether you’re a dentist, painter, software developer, medical equipment manufacturer, dry cleaner or the Mayflower Madam – you’ve got something to market and sell.

    Therefore, “Marketing” and “Selling” are not dirty words. They are your friends, your best friends. Embrace them. And never think you are above them.

    They will pay for your kid’s college education. They will buy you a bigger home or a totally unnecessary second...
  • 14 Steps to Successful Cold-Calling  By : Mark Hunter
    The vast majority of salespeople do not enjoy cold-calling…yet, it is an activity that most need to do on a regular basis. Here are some steps to practice this critical discipline.
  • Sales Training - Making It Stick!  By :
    Communication is often touted as the most important aspect of sales training, but the most important thing about sales training is whether or not it brings about results. Why is it that when you simply repeat your requests in memo after memo or yell what you need changed, the change in sales training that you are hoping for doesn’t come about? Because what is going to happen if they don’t implement the new training procedure? Another memo? Another yelling session? For most, t...
  • Lead Generation: Avoid The One Mistake That Will Kill Your Sales Productivity  By : Nancy Shawver
    Sales Productivity is a factor of two things: Available time and effective use of time.

    To increase a Sales Rep's productivity we can:
    Decrease time spent on non-selling activities
    Increase time spent on selling activities
    Make better use of selling-time

    Salespeople like other professionals, have a fixed amount of available hours during the year. Although you may put in far more hours, I'll base this number on 40 hours per week with 52 weeks in a year, and arrive at...
  • Super-charge Your Sales And Marketing With This Powerful Secret  By : Kevin Stirtz
    When I was just out of college, I was lucky enough to have a mentor. He was a successful businessman. He had a lot of energy and a million things going on at any given moment.

    We’d meet a couple times a month to talk about different things. I enjoyed our meetings because he did a good job of sharing with me some of the business and life lessons he had learned over the years.

    One day we met for lunch at the Lincoln Del. This was a popular place for business lunches. They...
  • Know The Difference Between Marketing And Selling  By : Kevin Stirtz
    As we think about how to improve our marketing it helps to define our activities so we use the right tool for the right job. (Use the wrong tools in the wrong way and you can wind up wasting a lot of time, energy and money.)

    With a lot of businesses, the line between selling and marketing is blurry. But, I've always found it helpful to look at it this way.

    Marketing involves anything you do that gets you or your business in front of someone who is interested in what you...
  • I'll Never Forget What's-Her-Name!- Winning the Name Game  By : Craig Harrison
    Learning, remembering and properly pronouncing other peoples’ names is more than just good manners, it's good business, smart sales and service. It is a great first step to building solid relationships built on trust, respect and admiration since it makes the individuals feel special and respected.
  • Magic Words: What Words are Music to the Ears of Your Customers?  By : Craig Harrison
    Words have the power to create trust, allegiance and commitment in customers and clients. The body language, eye contact and gestures reinforce the sentiment being expressed verbally. The thoughts and care behind the words give them a magical power.
  • Sales Training Effectiveness: Increase Your Bottom Line With Sales Training That Sticks  By : Chuck Mache
    Determining and evaluating the makeup of the organization’s sales team is essential for any sales training to succeed. The team members go through the motions of the program because they have been told to do so. Unless they are motivated to improve performance, no amount of training will succeed.
  • Real Learning By Doing... A Marketing Internship  By : James Brausch
    Some people learn best by reading text... others by listening to audio. Most do well with video and excel even more with a live interactive group teaching environment. Mentoring programs have become very popular recently with that realization. Why beat your own path when you can hire someone who has already been down that path to be your mentor? The cost is often nominal in comparison to the benefits.

    There is a huge demand today to start your own Internet business. Every...
  • Goal Setting Adds Purpose To Your Online Business  By : David Hudson
    People used to come to my high school and talk about how important it was to have goals. “You have to set realistic but ambitious goals for your life in order to feel fulfilled with life.” I am paraphrasing, of course, because in high school I was a young punk and never paid attention at those assemblies. I was just happy to get out of class. But as I’ve grown and matured, I have begun to realize what they really meant by “goals”. Goal setting can be an essential part of ever...
  • What's Bias Got To Do With It?  By : Kim Klaver
    Interesting people have opinions and beliefs that they they feel strongly about.

    Let's call these biases, especially when talking about theirs. Hehe.

    Bias: A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment.

    What does this mean for you marketing a product you love?

    1. Everyone doesn't have the same biases you do. And they like their biases just as much as you like yours.

    2. If you continue to try to force everyone to convert to your...
  • Marketing Strategies: 3 Mistakes To Watch Out For When Asked, "So What Do You Do?"  By : Maya Bailey, Ph. D.
    OK, so you’re standing in line in the supermarket, or you’re in an elevator, or you’re at a party, or you’re in a networking group. Sooner or later, someone is going to say to you, “So what do you do?”. This is what you want, free publicity so to speak. However, how you handle this question could determine whether this person becomes a prospective client, a prospective referral source or just walks away.

    This article exposes the 3 mistakes you could be making and why they ...
  • So am I an expert now? Have I turned into a 'Guru'?  By : computerincome
    Does 7 or 8 years of internet marketing, flaling for scams, starting up businesses, being fairly successful, make me a 'guru'?
  • The Search For A Mentor  By : Mike Lane
    There are many so called "gurus" on the net that are offering their advice to you concerning internet marketing. The net is packed with experts and they all want you to join their list.

    Most of them just want to sell you something and you never learn anything. How do I know this? Because I have fallen victim to the promises of these experts and joined almost all their lists.

    So I have come up with a checklist to consider when attempting to choose a mentor.

    1. Is he/s...

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