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Tips to a Successful Outreach Strategy
It’s true that your best customers are regular buyers. However, customers have a shelf life, too. There’s only so much new revenue you can generate from old customers, so outreach has to be part of any marketing strategy.
Will Your Prospects Read a 10-Page Sales Pitch?
If I can put a compelling letter in your hands that talks all about one of your major interests, chances are you’ll read it. Doesn’t matter whether it’s five pages or 10 pages or 20-plus.
Insight, Clarity, Execution
We all struggle to change, to do new things, to grow, to implement new strategies, initiatives, and programs. Too often, we and our customers fall short. We don’t quite achieve the goal, we change midstream, we abandon what we were seeking to achieve, pursuing something completely different.
When Salespeople Don’t Sell
What happens when sales people don’t do what they have the skills to do? When economies are good and businesses are humming along, many sales people joke that products sell themselves. But once the economy catches up and sales numbers drop, this is where the real talent rises to the surface.
How to Increase After-Holiday Sales: Fill the Gap
During the pre-holiday season customers are buying gifts for everyone on their lists, sales are good and you’re making money. What happens when the holiday buying is over and sales come to an almost screeching halt?
The Golden Rule in Selling
There is a golden rule in selling: “Spend more time with better prospects.” So, what are the characteristics of an ideal or “better” prospect? Below listed are 7.
How Small Business Owners Can Take Advantage of Black Friday
Black Friday took on its ever-so-famous name in Philadelphia in the early 1960s when the city would be packed with people and vehicles on the Friday after Thanksgiving. In recent times, it has become a major “holiday” for commerce.
“Let’s See How Much We Can Confuse Our Customers!”
If we want to optimize our results, we can’t confuse our customers or channel partners. We have to design buying experiences from their points of view. The challenges it creates for our own organizations to achieve their goals is our problem to solve, not the customer’s or the channel partners.
Selling to Whole Foods: 6 Steps to Success
Getting your product into national chains is never easy, but the rewards are big if you are persistent. The following steps will put you on the road to success.
Loyalty is not Black and White
There have been a number of articles written regarding loyalty as if it were a black-and-white topic. The authors have made loyalty appear to be a term something like pregnancy. You’re either pregnant or you’re not.
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