Sales. For many new entrepreneurs, putting on a salesperson’s hat is anything but enjoyable—but it’s a necessary evil. During the first years of your business—if not the whole life cycle of the business—you are your company’s best spokesperson. Even if you eventually hire a sales guru or a sales team, you must still represent your […]
Sales Strategies
How to Compete with Amazon: Win with Guided Selling
Amazon’s dominance is growing. They’re projected to be the first $1 trillion dollar company within the next 12 months. Amazon has the power to shatter company stocks with just a press release, and 64% of American households have an Amazon Prime membership while 56% of all product searches begin on Amazon. As consumers, we love shopping from them. Free two-day […]
Script Your Home Show Open for a Powerful Start
If you don’t script the show open you are missing an opportunity to connect with your audience from the get go! First impressions are important during your show, just like they are when you meet someone for the first time. Make a Plan & Script the Show Open When you think about it, at a […]
5 Ways to Turn Today’s Leads into Tomorrow’s Customers
There are a lot of statistics out there that say successful businesses should end up closing about one out of every three calls. But I know from experience that this is often not the case, and I’ll tell you how I learned that. A few years ago I was driving a plumber phone leads from different ad campaigns like […]
Should Groupon Be Part of Your Franchise Marketing Strategy?
Understandably, increasing your sales and number of customers is a top priority when marketing your franchise. And while there are many strategies to do that, daily deal sites like Groupon might be one worth considering. How They Work You might be familiar with Groupon from the customer’s perspective: you have the opportunity to pay for an experience […]
Are You Commoditizing Your Customers?
Everyone understands the challenges of selling commoditized products. They are perceived as undifferentiated. In the customers’ and markets’ eyes, there is no difference between these products, regardless the supplier. To win with commoditized products, we have to find some way to differentiate ourselves. Too often, we differentiate through pricing. Adept sellers broaden the purchase considerations, […]
Encountering Resistance
My friend, Charles Green, wrote a stunning article: Is Selling Too Hard, Maybe You’re Doing It Wrong. Make sure you read it. His article caused me to start thinking about Resistance. We all encounter resistance from our customers, it seems the harder we push, the greater the customer’s resistance (for those students of physics, you will recognize […]
Focus on the Customer Journey, Not Their Buying Journey
Over the years, we’ve made some progress, shifting our focus from our Selling Process to the Customer Buying Journey. We’ve finally recognized the customer is in control—funny, I always thought they were. We know that focusing on their Buying Journey, aligning our Selling Process with their journey is critical to our success (selfishly speaking.) We […]
The Art of Selling to Women
Last week, we talked about the science of selling to women and how our brains differ by gender and how that affects buying patterns and decision-making. So this week, I thought it would make sense to take that science and use it as a filter to think about how to create marketing that resonates with your female […]
Are Your Sales Suffering Due to These Common Faults?
If I make a mistake even a big one, as I’m typing this article, I can simply select the text, delete it and then correct it. You don’t always have that ability in sales. If you make a mistake, you can easily lose a sale or perhaps even an account. Let’s look at two […]
