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  • 6 Reasons Why People Will Commit To Your Mortgage...Or Maybe Not!  By : Tom Domin
    Have you ever wondered why someone would purchase one television brand over another? Or why they would purchase one car manufacturer's vehicle over another? This article explains all...
  • Why Should You Have A Personal Website?  By : Robert Williams
    Having a website is paramount to surviving in just about every business today.
  • Direct Sales: Recruiting Online  By : Robert Williams
    Build your sales team recruiting online.
  • How To Get People To Come To Your Online Party  By : Robert Williams
    Similar to Webinars, online parties have started up as a new trend. Here are some tips to help you boosts the attendance to your online party.
  • Motivating your Team in Direct Sales  By : Robert Williams
    Your Direct Sales Team will need a boost in morale with lots of encouragement. Time to get the rah rah going on and more.
  • The Value of Open Ended Questions in Sales  By : Tim Hagen
    Asking questions is the key to any good sales person's career.
  • The Common Habit Among Salesmen That Can Destroy Their Careers  By : Steve Kroening
    If you want to succeed, make sure you follow the only master that matters. You may need to adjust your goals in order to do so. Here's how to do that!
  • Are You Making These Mistakes Closing Sales?  By : Jim Klein
    If you are having trouble closing sales then maybe you are making some of these common mistakes.
  • How to Avoid 97% of What Causes All Failures  By : Sandra P. Martini
    Two scenarios: A. You're in your office making up a new client folder for a client who doesn't yet exist. Your thinking about how you'll work together and the phone rings. It's a prospect who's interested in working with you. B. You're sitting at your desk deeply involved in a project and the phone rings. It's a prospect who's interested in working with you. Which one of the above prospects will get the *best* you?
  • Tell Stories to Your Customer  By : John Bradley Jackson
    Have your salespeople tell stories. I have found that most successful salespeople sell by telling stories and not by making presentations. And, it does not seem like they are selling.
  • Face-to-Face with Adversity  By : Dirk Zeller
    What circumstances or outcome do you want? What do you need to do to make them happen? They will not be achieved without working through adversity. You will have to sweat and struggle. It will be worth it in the end. The skill that you acquire will be permanent.
  • Sales Training Tip – How To Retain Top Sales People  By : Sean McPheat
    Marketing and sales will, of course, be of the utmost importance to the success of your small business. However, do you even know the difference between the two? Marketing is everything your company does to reach out to the consumer and find potential clients.
  • How To Boost Your Sales By 500% Using This Principle  By : Dave Origano
    Most entrepreneurs who've at least some experience must have heard about it already. Others might have heard the same in school during their economics, math or history classes. Another group act upon this principle and have increased their profits by a staggering 500 percent.
  • What Are 7 Psychological Triggers That Make People Buy?  By : Matthew Bagley
    Did you know that there are seven psychological techniques that literary persuade people to buy?
    When we first used these techniques in a client's mailshot, we increased the response rate by 257%! You can use them not only in your mailshots but also in your ads, headlines, and even sales letters.
  • Are You Trying to Sell Me Something?  By : Jim Klein
    Are you doing everything you can to get your product or service in the hands of those who need it?
  • Increase Sales Without Spending a Dime  By : Bradley C Smith
    As a long time business owner, businesses ranging from restaurants to mail order, I have come across hundreds of other owners who all seem to have the same complaint. We can't use any heavy marketing methods to increase business because it is simply too expensive. How do you do it?...
  • Passive Income- Direct Sales Business  By : Zach Thompson
    Individuals can generate passive income for years through writing e-books or articles. For ongoing passive income, people can sell the copyrights to their writing works and then make a small or even moderate commission from all future sales from those writings.
  • Improve Your Mortgage Business...Make Yourself Available  By : Tom Domin
    The idea of being accessible might be a little disarming for many of you, but it is one of the best and easiest things you can do to grow your mortgage business. This article explains all...
  • Increasing Sales Through Strategic Internet Marketing  By : Samizr Khan
    The Internet has now become an important medium for product and service advertisements. Almost every company that can afford print, radio and TV advertisements have also ventured into placing ads on the Internet.
  • The Baseball Diamond of Success: 4 Steps to Closing the Sale  By : Liz Wright
    Have you ever wondered where the term “sales pitch” comes from? You have a dozen thrown at you every day, (a few hundred if you watch television.) and depending on how you run your business, you throw a couple of them yourself. But what comes after the pitch? Just like in baseball, you can’t just throw a few balls around and expect to win the game. Like any sport, this game requires patience, practice, a little coordination and some good old-fashioned teamwork. But believe it or not, your business could be as easy as a game of baseball. So grab your peanuts and crackerjacks and get ready for 4 simple steps that will assist you in winning your next big sale!
  • Tips For Crafting Your USP: Unique Selling Proposition  By : Adrian Adams
    Anyone who has started a business will tell you that the most important part of the process is to market your business well.
  • Who Else Wants To Be Successful Selling Products For Their MLM Business?  By : Andrew Wanschura
    Most mlm companies today would have their distributors believe that they're not in the "sales" business. This type of thinking has a couple very harsh consequences for mlm distributors.
  • Put That Phone Down, Quit Cold Calling, and Really Start Prospecting  By : Tim Hagen
    Cold calling is a tough job in the sales world. Sales people typically do not like to cold call nor do customers like receiving them. There are internet based services that brings customers and sellers together comfortably.
  • Sales Training Tip - Keeping Customer for Life  By : Sean McPheat
    Marketing and sales will, of course, be of the utmost importance to the success of your small business. However, do you even know the difference between the two? Marketing is everything your company does to reach out to the consumer and find potential clients.
  • Should You Wait For Your Prospects to Call You?  By : Tammy Stanley
    Expecting prospects and/or customers to call is the same as expecting prospects to do the sales person's job.
  • Ten Ways For A Jeweler To Close The Sale For The Customer Wanting Peace Of Mind  By : Marc Choyt
    The mainstream jewelry industry has been discredited by blood diamonds and dirty mining. How can a socially responsible consumer interested in jewelry shop his or her values? One must know the right questions to ask. Written by a jewelry manufacturer, this article empowers any customer to fairly raise issues related to fair trade and socially/eco responsible sourcing with any jeweler.
  • Need New Marketing and Selling Ideas? Ask Your Staff  By : Bob Janet
    Who talks to your customers more than you do?
    Who knows what will most satisfy your customers better than your staff? Who knows what will attract customers to your business better than your staff?
    No one!!
  • What You Can Learn From Top Down Sales Strategists  By : Leslie Buterin
    The first question asked by those who are new to selling is, “I know the company I want to prospect. Who should I contact first in that company?”
  • Examples of Telephone Opening Statements  By : Art Sobczak
    For attendees of my Telesales Rep Colleges, and customized training programs for clients, I have a standing offer of evaluating their opening statements afterward. Here are a few submitted by the pros at Dobbs Publishing, a group of niched magazines for auto enthusiasts.
  • Are You Taking Advantage Of Your Most Valuable Selling Asset?  By : Bob Janet
    If people purchased your products and services once, they will buy from you over and over and over if you know how to get them to remember you.
  • How a Coach Can Help Supercharge Your Sales Meeting  By : Kris Koonar
    Sales meetings offer great opportunities to benchmark performance, as compared to other methods, like plans. A sales meeting helps in additional skill development, updating the team on new products and pumps them up to exceed your next week or month targets.
  • Closing Sales With Conference Calling  By : TopSavings.Net
    What are you conveying to your prospects in the sales process? Read a case study and learn how you may be able to turn that cold prospect into a hot sale.
  • The Answer Is Always "NO" Until You Ask For The Sale  By : Bob Janet
    How never to allow the customer to say or think "NO" when you ask for the sale.
  • Aggressive Is Not A 4 Letter Word  By : Bob Janet
    Aggressive Marketing and Selling is the key to selling success in a fierce competitive market.
  • When Will The Customer Buy?  By : Bob Janet
    Customers will buy from you when they perceive you offer them the best solution to thier problems, needs and wants. You must know how to give them the perception that you are the seller that will best solve thier problems, needs and wants.
  • How Selling is Like Romance: Why Nurture Marketing Beats Cold Calling Any Day!  By : Scott Metcalfe
    Nurture marketing, the art of keeping your relationship with prospects and clients vibrant and alive can be a rich source of revenue and referrals. Sadly, most folks who sell, business owners, entrepreneurs and salespeople spend far more time going on the "blind dates" of cold calling than they do keeping their existing romances warm, healthy and ready for a trip to the alter of new accounts!
  • Direct Selling Four Tips to Get More Bookings  By : Karen Phelps
    Direct Selling and Home Party Plan Booking tips and techniques.
  • Turn Incoming Calls Into Sales And Profits  By : Bob Janet
    Professional Telephone Answering Techniques to gain and retain customers
  • Double Your Sales Without Gaining New Customers  By : Bob Janet
    You may not be able to stop your marketing costs from going up. But you can stop your profits from going down simply by selling more products and service to each customer. And it is easy if you use the right words and know how to convince the customer to purchase more items at each sale.
  • Stop Giving It Away  By : Bob Janet
    Don't be afraid to get paid for your services. Everyone is doing it. Well everyone that is successful.
  • Ask Questions And Get Rich  By : Bob Janet
    # 1 Rule in Selling is:
    The seller who solves the customer's problems, needs and wants the easiest for them will get the sale. Ask Questions to discover the customers problems, needs and wants.
  • What to Do When They Say They Haven't Read The Literature  By : Art Sobczak
    Here are steps to keep in mind as you prepare your follow-up call so you’re ready in case they "haven’t read the literature."
  • Sales Training Resources via Free Article Search Engine  By : Wayne Messick
    If you expect to succeed at sales you need to find or develop a style that fits your personality. Stop begging for their business, stop wasting your time with people who don't want what you're selling, and invest your valuable time disqualifying the people who don't fit your well developed picture of what a client looks like.
  • Selling – Guaranteed Sales Strategy To Big Money  By : Gary Wollin
    Good salespeople are aggressive, dynamic types. Everybody knows that.

    There are plenty of good salespeople out there. They have good product knowledge. They have good selling skills. And they are likable.

    The more competition you have, the more products that can do the same or similar things as yours, the more you need to help and advise your customers, not just sell to them.

    Great salespeople are an extremely valuable commodity because they are in such short supply....
  • Shut Up And Take The Money -And What To Do When They Say, "Your Price Is Higher Than The Competition  By : Bob Janet
    You no longer have to worry about price competition. Using the sales techniques in this article you will be able to increase your prices and close more sales faster.
  • All Ya Need Is Attitude And Ownership To Have Selling Success  By : Bob Janet
    Discover what really seperates the successful sales professionals from all the others.
  • It's OK To Ask For The Sale. Really It's OK  By : Bob Janet
    Sales professionals do not ask for the sale because they are afraid of hearing the word "NO". This article shows how never to hear the word "NO" when asking for the sale
  • How to Get and Stay Motivated!  By : Art Sobczak
    It's critical, especially in this profession, that you have a never-ending plan that keeps your outlook (and correspondingly, your performance) at sky-high levels. And there's one proven way to do that consistently.
  • How to Make Maximum Sales in Minimum Time!  By : Jim Klein
    How would you like to get more positive results in sales? I want to give you an exercise you can use to dramatically change the results you are currently getting.
  • Trainee Salesman Stumbles on a Cold Fortune  By : Harry Richards
    I read a news item about a janitor who became a commission salesman and within two years bought the apartment block where he had been the janitor. I must try again to become a salesman, and I did
  • 10 Ways to Overcome Sales Objections  By : Sean McPheat
    According to the experts who conduct sales coaching and sales training courses, most of the sales objections take place when a sales rep has failed to show to the client the usefulness of the product. Overcoming these objections is a very important lesson for a sales rep. It is important to remember that the customer may not always give the actual reason for objecting to the sale.
  • What Makes Buyers Tick?  By : Matt Oconnor
    What is the number 1 reason why most people will buy anything, what is the most important motivator of all for so many reasons and on so many levels?
  • ABCs of Business Telemarketing Sales  By : Pat Boardman
    People who find themselves out of a job will notice a profession listed in the want ads that is terrifying to most – the dreaded telemarketer job. Call centers have the largest turnover rate, especially those selling to consumers. They have strict monitoring and recording of the outgoing calls, but in business-to-business sales there's more room for freestyle selling, and life becomes easier if you know the techniques. ABC is something that should be kept in mind by the salesman: Always Be Closing!
  • Direct Sales Tips: Prepare For Holiday Selling  By : Jane Deuber
    Here are some helpful hints for making the most of the holiday selling season.

    Get organized!

    You cannot have a record-breaking season if you are not prepared. Set aside one hour today to order supplies, update your potential hostess list, get your show bag in order, clear your desk, and make those booking calls.

    Schedule early and schedule tight!

    Begin filling your calendar with more shows than you would ever dream of holding. Promote noon and four p.m. tea shows...
  • Sales Strategy #1: Get Your B*utt on the Phone!  By : Audrey Burton
    Don't be afraid to pick up the phone! If you prepare for it, it's a piece of cake. Check out this article so you will feel confident calling your prospects.
  • Top 5 Tips of the Most Successful Sales People  By : Sean McPheat
    Learning from others experiences and mistakes is always a good idea. And for a sales person what better way to learn than from some of the most successful sales people. Some sales training and sales coaching classes bring in successful people to give a talk to the new batch of sales people.
  • Black Belt Negotiating  By : Michael Soon Lee
    Learn to become a master negotiator using ancient martial arts techniques.
  • The Five Attributes of Great Salespeople  By : James Delrojo
    It is a fact that most people who enter the world of selling fail hopelessly. It is also a fact that most of the others are just scraping by. Yet there are some salespeople that are consistently making a fortune year in and year out. How do they do it? Read on and you will find out.
  • We Should Be More Like Kids  By : Art Sobczak
    At this time of year we often hear "Christmas is for the kids." That’s just one more reason I try to be more like a kid. You should too. We all should. We’d be happier, and would achieve more. Here’s why.
  • Preparation For Selling In Real Situation!  By : Max Ng
    What are the preparations required before practicing in real life situation
  • Proper Understanding Of Selling Skills!  By : Max Ng
    What do one need to understand about selling skills?
  • Sales Process: Repeat Success And Avoid Failure  By : Peter Lawlesss
    Good sales people are naturals. They just get on with the job, their customers love them and they keep bringing home the bacon. But what is it that they are doing right? Do you know? Can you pass on those lessons to other members in the team? If you can get the whole sales team to consistently follow best practices, your sales revenue will increase dramatically.

    Why bother with a sales process?

    By having a good sales process, A process is defined as: “A series of action...
  • Learn Selling Through The Perspective Of A Buyer!  By : Max Ng
    Learn from others salesperson by acting as a buyer
  • Top Ten Ways to Become a Great Salesperson!  By : Jim Klein
    Being a better salesperson is more than learning new skills and techniques. Here are my top ten ways to become a better salesperson.
  • Critical Steps To Overcoming Sales Phobia  By : Susan Martin
    If you’re like most business owners and self employed professionals you started a business because you have a particular talent, skill, or ability; not because you like to sell. And although some sales people do start companies, most business owners have no experience or training in sales.

    Let’s face it, no-one likes hearing the word “no”. The mere mention of the word “sales” conjures up all kinds of negative images like the ubiquitous “used car salesman” or the “bait and...
  • The Crazy Motto that Doubled My Sales  By : James Delrojo
    Do you run a sales team? Have you ever noticed that sales people are brilliant at coming up with excuses for why their promised sales didn't eventuate. I use a simple strategy on my sales team that stopped the excuses and doubled the sales.
  • What Are The 3 Vital Parts Of A Winning Sales Call?  By : Peter Lawlesss
    The two greatest problems facing all small business are;

    How do I get more qualified leads?
    How do I convert more of those leads into customers?
    Focusing on the second issue, if you have got that vital first meeting, you should really be in with a very strong chance of closing it. You will need to have 3 to 5 power questions prepared in advance,

    So why do so many business owners and sales people alike, have problems securing the deal with a hot prospect. This article ...
  • Techniques to Get to Yes - Faster!  By : Audrey Burton
    How do you get your prospects to say "yes" and become clients? You start and build good relationships using great communication skills. How are your skills? Do you consciously use proven techniques to skillfully get to "yes" fast? Start here to evaluate your skills!
  • Overcoming Three Big Sales Myths  By : Tyler James Ellison
    Some sales training teaches that you just have to "get more people in front of your offer" or "make twice as many calls and you'll double the results" or even "just pump up the numbers."
  • How to Become a Master of Persuasion in the World of Business  By : Rene Graeber
    Closing the much-awaited deal of the century could become your worst nightmare if you do not have the necessary skills in persuading people.
  • The "You Treat Me Nice, I Treat You Nice" Mentality For Covert Sales Persuasion  By : Welly Mulia
    How you can use this mentality in your advantage to close more sales.
  • How to move the sale forward  By : Sean McPheat
    I must admit I get a little bored every time I hear a trainer or article say "There are two types of questions, open and closed. Only use open questions when xyz and only use closed questions when abc"
  • Persuasion Tip: How to Get Your Prospect to Commit  By : Michael Lee
    How do you persuade a person, who thinks he doesn't need your product, to actually believe on his own that what you're selling is indispensable and something he shouldn't be leaving home without?
  • 12 Reasons To Get Electronic Sales Help and IOVC Technology  By : Gregory Burrus
    Electronic Sales help can save you money, improve your business and draw customers to your business.
  • Sell The Sizzle Not The Steak  By : Pat Wiklund
    Most of our prospects don't really care what we do, where we got our training or degrees, or what tools we use. Selling is not about us….but about the prospect!
  • Alternative Choice!  By : Max Ng
    There is always an alternative choice in a mental situation.
  • Learn to Sell Only to Deserving Customers  By : Daniel Sitter
    I have several ex-customers and prospective accounts that I choose not to do business with. That’s right… I choose. While the reasons vary, the common thread is that pursuing their business is not a wise use of my time or company resources.
  • "Please" & "Thank You" . . . Still The Realtor's Best Tools  By : Stone Payton
    The gurus vary a bit on the exact statistic, but all will tell you: Top salespeople in virtually every industry become that way because they have developed the habit of sending personal, heart-felt "Thank You" cards to their customers. As a result -- they get more referrals (a lot more referrals) -- and consistently out perform their competitors by as much as 10 to 1.

    Most Realtors (and Lenders, Insurance Agents, & Financial Advisors for that matter) know this -- but fewer...
  • The Six Key Vulnerabilities in Negotiation  By : James Delrojo
    Negotiation is a mental and emotional game. Much of the result is dependent on the emotional strengths and vulnerabilities of the parties and, of course, their skills at capitalizing on these strengths and vulnerabilities.

    I will discuss six key vulnerabilities to be aware of in negotiation.
  • The Six Elements of Power in Negotiations  By : James Delrojo
    One of the key elements in any negotiation is power, real or perceived. The more power you have the easier it is to achieve your objective. In this article I will discuss six elements that contribute to negotiation power.
  • Five Power Questions To Break Through Sales Stalemates  By : James Delrojo
    Often in the selling process you reach a point where the prospect tells you that they would like to buy your product but there is a real reason why they simply can't do that at this point in time

    Here are five questions that can help you blast through this stalemate and get the order.
  • Trapped In A Sale  By : Johnny Jenkins
    The guy said you are not going anywhere. He said, I am going to teach you a lesson. He started walking toward Harry.
  • The Twelve Basic Principles Of Negotiation - Numbers 7 to 12  By : James Delrojo
    This is the second article in a two part series on the principles of negotiation. The first article dealt with principles 1 to 6 and this article covers principles 7 to 12.
  • Cold Calling Tips and 6 Ways to Make It Easier  By : E Kinton
    Cold calling is tough so here are 6 tips that will help you to make the process easier.
  • Sales And Marketing - Let Others Do The Work  By : Ken Harrington
    Why let your advertising rep do all the work when you have a sales force right in your own back yard, and you might not even know it.
  • The Twelve Basic Principles Of Negotiation - Numbers 1 to 6  By : James Delrojo
    Negotiation is an art that requires both study and practice. However there are some basic guidelines that can help you when negotiating. Here are the first six of twelve basic principles that, if followed, will help you negotiate well.
  • Secrets of Trade Show Selling: #1  By : T Falcon Napier
    Have you ever wondered why people exhibit at trade shows? Why they take the time? Why they spend the Money? And why most of them walk away with little or nothing to show for the effort? This article covers the first of the Secrets of Trade Show Selling -- Exhibiting with a Purpose.
  • Do You 'Make a Sale' or 'Provide an Experience'?  By : Sandra P. Martini
    You ordered a glass of wine and two bottles of water. The bill came to US $40. Are you shocked? Horrified? I smiled. Why did I smile rather than cringe? It was the "experience". I was immediately brought back to the people, the chatting, the smells, the feel of the warm sun on a winter's day, the sound of the Fountain of Four Rivers -- all of it, generated off a receipt for wine and bottled water.
  • 7 Tips To Increase Your Referral Business  By : Ken Harrington
    Most small business owners start off building their businesses through referrals. Yet not a single one understands and uses the power of this great marketing method.
  • What is Consultative Selling?  By : Sean McPheat
    Consultative selling sales training courses are becoming increasingly popular. Even other sales training classes and sales coaching classes are offering consultative selling as a part of the curriculum. So, what is consultative selling? As any of these sales training courses will tell you consultative selling is a type of selling in which the selling is based on customer needs rather. It is a non-manipulative process.
  • Involving Your Prospect In The Sale  By : Kurt Mortensen
    The more you engage someone's five senses, involve them mentally and physically, and create the right atmosphere for persuasion, the more effective and persuasive you'll be. Listening can be a very passive act; you can listen to an entire speech and not feel or do a thing. As a persuader, you need to help your audience be one step closer to taking action. As a Master Persuader, your goal is to decrease the distance someone has to go to reach your objective.

    When you get a ...
  • Cold Calling: You Won't Believe the Power of This Word!  By : Leslie Buterin
    One simple word can turn that sales presentation from a downward spiral to a tightly wound spring on it's way up!
  • Cold Calling: 20% of Sales Professionals Tell This Lame Lie  By : Leslie Buterin
    Those 'white lies' say a lot about your character. Are you willing to risk it all to make a sale?
  • How To Retain Your Top Sales People  By : Jim Klein
    Retaining top salespeople should be the first priority of any sales manager.
  • Free Mortgage Leads  By : ameen kamadia
    How to generate free mortgage leads to market to
  • Three Ways To Profitably Use The Most Powerful Two Words In The English Language  By : James Delrojo
    Most experts believe that it is language that has allowed the human being to far exceed all other animals on the planet. Language can also be used to enhance relationships, both personal and business. Here are some techniques to do just that for you.
  • Making Sales Business-to-Business  By : Adam J. Heist
    You make the sale to a business by understanding what kind of business that you’re dealing with.
  • Close More Sales By Not Allowing Your Prospects To Think It Over  By : Kurt Mortensen
    People put off until tomorrow only those decisions they lack the confidence to make today. We live in a society where no one has time. How ironic is that we don’t have time to do the things we want, but your prospect is going to spend time to think about it? Sure there will be times when your prospect will have to think and ponder about this decision. Most of the time it is a knee jerk reaction, and the prospect is feeling a need to buy and they feel the pressure to buy, ...
  • Digital Signage Can Extend Your Sales Success  By : David Little
    Two Wichita-area businesses are using interactive digital signage to create what are essentially virtual sales assistants.
  • R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - Your Client's Communications Preferences  By : Lydia Ramsey
    Are you dodging business success by ignoring your client's preferred method of communication?
  • How To Handle Rejection  By : Jim Klein
    How do you handle rejection? Try this technique and you won't feel rejected again.
  • The Bait And Switch  By : Kurt Mortensen
    If you can get someone to mentally commit to a product or a decision, he is likely to remain committed even after the terms and conditions change. This is why when stores, for example, advertise very low prices on a television set, they include in small print, "Quantities Limited." By the time you get to the store, all the bargain televisions are sold, but you are mentally committed to buying a new TV. Luckily for you, there are more expensive models available. So, you go hom...
  • Selling Is Part And Parcel Of Life!  By : Max Ng
    According to Rich Dad series, one of the important skills to learn is selling if I want to be wealthy. I decided that I wanted to learn selling. This is because I realized the fact that I am always selling my ideas and information to someone everyday whether I like it or not.
  • MLM Training - How to Keep Prospects From Feeling "Baited and Switched"  By : Tim Sales
    Before a prospect will "reach out" for more information about your MLM business or products, you must absolutely create just the right amount of curiosity. Do it wrong, and they'll feel "baited and switched" or mislead. Continue reading to learn what I do to keep prospects curious and reaching for more.
  • Rhetoric Selling  By : Kurt Mortensen
    One’s ability to persuade meant great social prestige in the ancient Greek world. Homer regarded the rhetorical skills of Nestor and Odysseus as tremendous inborn gifts. It was Aristotle who first introduced persuasion as a skill that could be learned. At that time, rhetorical training became the craze for citizens of Athens, especially for the politically elite. The first book ever written on persuasion was Aristotle’s The Art of Rhetoric. The book’s basic principles e...
  • Assume The Sale  By : Kurt Mortensen
    The power of suggestion can also be extremely effective when you engage the emotions in your tactics. For example, when your car salesman says, "You're really going to love how this car handles in the mountains," he is shifting the focus away from the sale and creating an exciting image in your head. He is also speaking as though you had already agreed to the sale because you wouldn't be driving it in the mountains unless you were going to buy it. He's acting like it's a done...
  • The Key to Suggestive Selling is "Repeat"  By : Dan Cosgrove
    Are your employees promoting your best items? Or, do they leave it all up to the customer and miss opportunities for greater sales and profit? If they're not employing suggestive selling as a sales management strategy, you're missing out.
  • Selling Your Business - Prepare for the Buyer Visit  By : Dave Kauppi
    A buyer visit is a very important step before receiving a letter of intent. Do not view it as a simple show-and-tell corporate tour. It is your chance to position your company in the best light to drive purchase price. It is also your chance to gather valuable information on the buyer in order for you to make yoru selling decision.
  • Business Sellers - Beware of the C Corp Asset Sale  By : Dave Kauppi
    If you are selling your business and it is a C Corp, the tax consequences of an asset sale as opposed to a stock sale can be punishing. All else being equal, push for the stock sale. This article discusses the tax treatment of both transaction forms.
  • From Novice To Professional: How To Be A Better Sales Person  By : Tony Hartmann
    Being better at giving sales pitches and closing deals does not simply entail showing up at meetings promptly, being prepared with your materials, and knowing the ins and outs of your product or service. Living the life of a sales person requires commitment and passion...
  • The Benefits Of Retail Sales Training  By : Mark Woeppel
    Retail sales training will not only you you survive in the retail market, but retail sales training will give you effective results to beat the competition. Many people think that price is what controls the retail market, however with retail sales training you will learn that price may attract customers, but it may not necessarily keep them. The retail market is slit up of several different divisions. Retail sales training can assist with you running each of these divisions a...
  • MLM Training: How to Always Say The Right Thing, Easily and Naturally  By : Tim Sales
    If you could learn just one skill in your MLM business, this would be it. Having this one dominant thought in your mind before talking with any prospect will guide you through any conversation, and your prospect will respect and admire you.
  • Selling A Business - The Eleventh Hour Contract Change  By : Dave Kauppi
    A last minute change in the terms of a business sale can often cause it to blow up. That is costly and unfortunately far too common. This article discusses how to deal with it.
  • Secrets To Wholesale Xbox Profits  By : Joaquin Reveron
    Key hints for the small business owner and bargain wannabe
  • Secrets To Wholesale DVD Profits- Today  By : Joaquin Reveron
    Start-up needs for wholesale DVD profits on sites like eBay
  • Small Business: 10 Key Attributes Your Sales Staff Must Have  By : Chris Le Roy
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