The top business people all say the same thing – first impressions count. Sounds easy, and it is easy for those few who can start a conversation with just about anyone but how many people do you know who are like that?
How Often Do You Give People A Good Telling On?
A fellow I knew always boasted about how he kept his staff under control with an iron fist. “Nothing motivates them more than a good telling off,” he would proclaim.
Do You Sell A Necessity or a Luxury?
Products and services are a mixed bag. Some are downright necessities. If my toilet explodes, I need a plumber. If your child wakes up with a high fever, you need a doctor. Raging termites, aching teeth, and lawsuits also require services that are necessities.
But most products and services are more luxury than necessity. I often hire a young man to mow my lawn. But if he’s on vacation one week, I’ll get my out-of-shape self out there and push the mower myself.
Creating An Online Communtiy
If you are in an online business with your own web site, it would help greatly to build an online community with your visitors. The pathway to a good online community is to build trust in your visitors, your future customers. Here’s a simple formula to get you started.
Save Time and Money Marketing Your Book to One Audience
Let’s say that before this year ends, you want to market your book at $20 to 170,000 business women over 40 who want to create a relationship. You have found them on top Web sites through a search for “listening,” “communication,” and “business women.”
How to Make Your Meetings Fun!
If you want people to be creative, innovative, and flexible, it helps to make your meetings fun. Here are three examples.
Balancing Your Priorities with Your Search for At-Home Work
Once you’ve surfed the web, you can’t help but notice all the ads and websites meant to hook the hordes of “work-at- home wannabes”.
10 Heavy Duty Online Sales Grabbers!
1. Give your prospects extra incentives so they will order quicker. It could be free shipping, a faster shipping option, free gift wrapping, etc.
Don’t Be a Shape Shifter
When I was a little girl, I used to love to play “name the cloud.” I bet you played this too. I remember lying on my back in the yard and watching as the clouds passed overhead. As the wind blew the clouds across the sky, the clouds would change shape. It was more fun to play with someone else, because two people could look at the same cloud and see something different.
Where Did the Customer Go?
Every month I volunteer my services at the local “Entrepreneurship Center,” a municipally funded resource for budding entrepreneurs. I spend 2-3 hours at the center, presenting an Introduction to Sales and Marketing course.