Value Add Negotiating for Sales Professionals

Imagine this scenario. You are a sales representative for Baker distributing. One of your long-time customers, Albertson Metals, operates a mill that produces high nickel alloy ingots. Each year, this mill purchases approximately $500,000 worth of MRO products such as bar conditioning wheels, flap wheels, grinding belts, cutoff wheels, steel... Read More

Is It Time To Rethink Your Sales Training Program or Is Your Sales Training Delivering Results?

Sales is still a must for any company who wishes to stay in the marketplace. A recent Internet search uncovered over 471,000,000 hits on the words sales or selling. Visiting an Internet bookstore revealed similar interest with almost 11,400 titles including the key word of sales, over 8,208 titles with... Read More

Smart Discounting: The Right Way To Discount Your Products

If a store had a great discount in the middle of the woods and nobody was around to hear about it, would it make a difference?There are two types of discounting. There are arbitrary discounts; these are the type you just make up because you are trying to close a... Read More

Evaluating Your Customer

It is one thing to make a sales presentation, but it is another thing to make a sales presentation without first evaluating your customer. For all you know, you could be selling your customer something that they already have, or something they don't want, don't need, or can't afford.This is... Read More

Reaching Goals in Direct Sales

From surveys and experience, we've noticed many setting excellent goals for their business. We've also noticed that while the goals being set are good, the results aren't. Around 90% of those in Direct Sales do SET goals, but never reach them.So the question comes to mind.....are you making the right... Read More

How Can A Smelly, Hissing Goose Teach You To Be A Business Leader?

In the 1990's we lived on a farm in Iowa. Since I grew up in the country, I thought I knew everything there was to know about country living. Imagine my surprise at learning something life changing from a couple of old geese! When we obtained the farm I wanted... Read More

The 7 Deaths of a Salesman

In sales, you can work one of two ways. You can either do the things you should do or you can do the things you want to do. Sometimes these are one in the same, but more often they are at odds with one another. However, this article isn't about... Read More

Get Leverage & Increase Your Sales Results Immediately!

Have you ever started something and not completed it? Or maybe there's something that you know that you should do but you just don't seem to get around to it? Or perhaps there's something that you know would benefit from more attention / more focus but you just don't give... Read More

Sales Discipline: Five Steps To Recover From A Lost Sale

Ever lost a sale? Of course you have, we all have. The difference between the average salesperson and the great salesperson is how quickly you recover from the lost sale. When you lose a sale that you thought you should have won, it is often tempting to take it personally... Read More

Three Essential Questions You Must Ask To Make More Sales ? Ignore Them At Your Peril

There's loads of material about making money available on the Internet. Most of it is called "How you can make money on the Internet by selling products called How to make money on the Internet".If it's not that title, it's about how to write "killer" advertising copy or how to... Read More

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Win More Sales With a 5-Step Sales Process

Facilitating the buying process can be very straightforward and fairly... Read More

Sales 101

For many individuals in business the hardest part is selling.... Read More

Got Sales Objections? Wheres Your Value?

A sales manager who reads this newsletter regularly suggested the... Read More

How Pareto?s Principle Impacts Your Sales Success

Pareto's Principle {the 80/20 rule) is vividly illustrated in the... 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

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

Mention the word sales or salesman and two out of... Read More

Transforming Problems into Sales

My silent fish tank was no more. Enough water had... Read More

Elearning Is Dead - Long Live Blended Learning!

There is little doubt that eLearning has not achieved the... Read More

Are You Missing Out On Sales Through Fear of Pain? Improve the Persuasive Power of Your Words!

Education plus Motivation is a powerful formula. But how do... Read More

The Choice between Yes and Yes: A Psychological Revelation

Three year old Kara was throwing a tantrum. She didn't... Read More

Generate Sales with Lead Generation Marketing Tools

One of the best projects to undertake as an online... Read More

Turning Sales Techniques Into Sales Success!

The goal of all sales training is not just to... Read More

Do You Know the Emotion Behind the Objection?

Prospects have many reasons (you might think excuses) for not... Read More

Prep Your Customer

When I first moved to Seattle, I worked for 9... Read More

9 TIPS: Dont Sell Me - Persuade Me

We all have something in our past we believe someone... Read More

Increase Your Influence, Increase Your Sales

Selling is everyone's lifeblood whether they realize it or not.... Read More

Probe Before You Sell

When selling a product to a customer, it is very... Read More

Successful Sales Strategies: Winning the Close Ones

The "Three Cs" in building customer relationships are a key... Read More

Boost Buyer Confidence By Assuming The Sale

I saw something in town the other day that just... Read More

Success Secrets Of A Famous Vacuum Salesperson

I have to admit, I have an 'addiction'.Sometimes this addiction... Read More

The Art And Science of Closing - How To Close More Sales Right Now

One of the questions I often get asked as a... Read More

Selling - Always Go for Top Money

If you've ever flown economy class on an international flight... Read More

Sales Techniques to Help the Customer to Buy

Three times I have revisited Turkey after living in the... Read More

Sales Marketing: 10 Explosive Strategies To Amplify Your Sales

Marketing is a skill. Once you master it, you can... Read More

Make Your Referrals Count

Just because we receive a referral, it doesn't mean that... Read More

Sales Skills are Life Skills

I love the art of selling. LOVE IT. When I... Read More

Unlocking the Myth of Hypnotic Communication

Unquestionably when the word hypnosis pops-up in a conversation or... Read More

Say What?!? Sales is a Profession?

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

How To Master The Art And Science Of Super Salesmanship In 3½ Minutes Flat!

Dear Friend,You #1 weapon in advertising will always be...Superior Salesmanship.I... Read More

The Most Underused and Powerful Method of Lead Generation

Are you worried about whom you'll sell today so you... Read More

Why Salespeople Dont Take Risks

Proponents of traditional sales training simply teach the material, sometimes... Read More

Being Politically Correct When Selling Can Cost You Sales

In our culture it is basically un-American for a prospective... Read More

10 Boundless Ways To Anchor Down More Sales

1. Multiply your marketing and advertising efforts on the Internet.... Read More