Category Archives: Small Business Sales Advice

HOW TO AUTOMATE YOUR ONLINE SALES PROCESS (VIDEO)

What happens after the sale? Online sales processes help you make the sale but you also need automated backend processes to deliver the product or service that you just sold.

In this video I walk you through how to set …

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THE LITTLE-KNOWN SECRET OF BIG, BOLD PERSONAL BRANDING

This is Guest Author Post by John Morgan. He’s the author of a hot new book called Brand Against the Machine. I like the book because it’s fun, a little cheeky and full of very helpful advice. Wait, …

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The Best Thing For You Would Be Me

When selling anything, consulting, software, a new business idea, it helps to feel confident saying, “The best thing for you would be me!”

Not that I’m suggesting you actually say it, word for word, but rather, truly believe it.

This issue …

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6 Keys to Making Marketing Magic

Know your responses to these six keys. If you do, you’ll ensure that the offers you make are right on target. The result? More sales, of course.

Your marketing works when you know:

  1. Who your target clients are.
  2. What they
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It’s Not My Job to Promote You

And, it’s not your job to promote me.

Note: this post is dedicated to David Meerman Scott and Scott Stratten. They’ll know why and smile.

We promote each other when we:

a) Like each other
b) Respect each other …

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Simple Sales Solutions

Increasing sales is what you want. And you probably want easy tactics that let you generate more leads close more sales. You want to quickly and easily fill your business or practice with a never-ending stream of ideal clients

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The 8 Types of Buyers and How to Successfully Sell to Them

Mike Schultz, at RainSalesTraining.com, has written an outstanding post on the 8 types of buyers and how to successfully sell to them. I strongly suggest you read it. Very insightful and immediately useful.…

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A Twitterific Party to Get You More Clients

In honor of the release of the release of the second edition of Book Yourself Solid, we’re throwing a party that helps small business owners get booked solid.

Featuring Michael Port, author of Book Yourself Solid, and hosted by …

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The Better Way to Choose a Target Market

Let’s start by understanding the difference between your target market and your niche. If you’ve done other research or reading on the subject of building a service-based business, you may have heard both of these terms before, and you …

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How to Talk About What You Do

The elevator pitch is designed for the entrepreneur to pitch an idea to a venture capitalist or angel investor in the hopes of receiving funding, not for the service professional to try to build a relationship of trust with a potential client. Continue reading

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