Not There Yet, Fake it, Till You Make It

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” — Milton Berle
In today’s economic climate, it’s easy to be seduced into the negative thinking that is being bombarded everywhere. But, it doesn’t have to be that way.
What you believe creates your results both past and present. If your currently believe ideas that do not support your success, [...]

Use Your Business Cards

I have to admit, this is one of my pet peeves, the lack of using business cards. Too many times I’ve asked someone for a business card and hear “I don’t have one on me…..or they are out in my car” or some other lame excuse. ALWAYS carry business cards, EVEN if you’re not “working.” [...]

Are You Putting Up Obstacles For Your Customers?

Are you making it easy for your customers to buy from you? Or, are you putting up obstacles so it’s difficult and hard to buy your products or services?
Last week’s blog posts I wrote about “making it easier for your customers to buy” (Click here to see post ). Today, I wanted to continue with [...]

Make It Easy For Your Customers To Buy

 

One of the things that I talk about all the time to my coaching clients is the concept of “making it easy for your customers to buy.” On the surface you would think this is a no brainer, however, for some this can be a little difficult to fully understand.
Depending on your business, whether you’re [...]

Seize the Opportunities

In your day to day life, there are many opportunities. But are you taking advantage of all of them? Or, do you have blinders on and can’t see the opportunities when they present themselves?
You’ve heard it before….”Opportunities are everywhere.” What you have to do is to be able to recognize the opportunity [...]

Selling Is A Numbers Game

I have a great selling tip for you today, but before I get to it, I need to clear up a situation.
One of the things I hear from time to time from some of my readers (and used to get it from my salespeople when I was a sales manager), is something along the lines [...]

Do You Know What Your Customers Are Really Buying?

In an early blog I wrote about the importance of being able to sell. And once you start selling to customers you need to realize what they are really buying. You may think it’s your product or service, but it goes much deeper.
People BUY with emotions and they justify the sale with logic. [...]

Psychology of Success…One View

Years ago when I had become the top producing salesperson for the company I was working for at the time, the other salespeople would always ask me “my secret” for selling more than anyone else. I would tell them, half joking, half serious and very few if any followed my advice. The ones that did….increased [...]

7 Basic Strategies For Moving Forward In This Economy

The New Year 2012 is right around the corner. Everyone is talking about the current economy and seems that most of the talk among business owners is how to survive. In my view, I think surviving is not the right way to be thinking….grabbing the bull by the horns and charging through this economy [...]

Is Your Website Working for You?

I was talking with an acquaintance the other day and since I build websites, they happened to mention not getting many visits to their website. This person went on to say that they didn’t believe it was worth all the expense.
So, my first question was, how much are you paying to have a website? [...]