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Gold & Red Cards Will Make You A Ton Of Money - Click To Read Article
A little record keeping makes you the seller of choice Everyone knows the more you know about your customers the easier it is to build a relationship. Relationships = Trust = Sales

Is Your Business a Front-runner? - Click To Read Article
Creativity in marketing is crucial if you want to join the ranks of the front-runners. • A front-runner business constantly improves its selling skills and techniques. • A front-runner business is the customer’s first choice. • A front-runner business is designed to make a profit.

11 Reasons why you better make sure the customer is always right!
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A customer just left you, or left your store unsatisfied. How many customers did you just lose? One, two because he will tell a friend of his dissatisfaction, three because he will tell 2 friends? Would you believe ten or more?

The Giants want to Eat You
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The big box discounter, the many cable shopping networks and the large chains know they can only attract a very small percentage of each other’s customers. So they are continually after your customers. And they will eat you alive, unless you …Stop reacting and ACT

Double Your Sales
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Double Your Sales without gaining new customers or increasing your marketing costs

It’s OK to ask for the sale. Really it’s OK
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“85% of the interactions between sales people and prospects end without the sales person ever asking for the sale. 85%!” Retail News by Richard Fenton It’s OK, no it is a must to ask for the sale, because as Hockey player great Wayne Gretzky says, “You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

There was a Fly in the soup!!! But they kept the customer
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We have all heard it happened to someone, we have herd the jokes, Customer to Waiter: “What is that fly doing in my soup?” Waiter. “Looks like the back stroke.” Customer to Waiter: “There is a fly in my soup.” Waiter: “Don’t worry, He will not eat much.”

The Answer is always “NO” until you ask for the Sale
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How never to allow the customer to say or think “NO” when you ask for the sale

Do you need a 99¢ Chicken Sandwich?
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How to make customers react positively to your business

The secret to lowering you marketing cost
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Marketing cost are going up.. • The U.S. Postal Service has increased postage rates again. The latest increase (as of July 2008) has pushed the cost of mailing a letter to 42 cents and upped the cost of shipping magazines and catalogs 20%. This would be the largest increase in decades. • Newspaper advertising costs as well are estimated to increase along with radio and television. • Printers ink and paper cost are estimated to increase.

FREE Advertising: It's out there!
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The old saying “It does not get any better than FREE” sure is true in the high cost of advertising your business. You can easily become one of those businesses that always seem to be getting mentioned in the media. All you have to do is take advantage of your opportunities when they come a knocking at your door.

10 Items or Less
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How to use the customer’s demand for fast service and convenience

Stop Driving Your Customers To The Competition
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It is estimated that for most products and services your customer shops 2 to 3 places before they make a buying choice. The Jewelry business is no different. I find my sales increase dramatically when I give my customers a choice between the 2 or 3 items I offer and not a choice between the competition and me. Thus keeping them from comparing me with my competition.

Make BIG profits using little words
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Little words can help you increase your sales and profits. Because of increasing marketing and selling costs you must find ways to maximize the impact of each and every contact you and your marketing materials have with your prospects. You must make sure you have a very high impact that creates the perception of value to the customer. You must: •Attract the prospect's attention •Get the customer to purchase your products / services •Get the customer to use more of your products / services

They don’t put as much in the sandwich .. But I keep going back.
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There are 3 things your customers want: 1. Low price 2. Top quality 3. Great service Unfortunately you can only give them a combination of two of the three if you expect to stay in business. You just cannot provide all three. Those that try are not around very long. You know as well as I do that most businesses and sales professionals fail because they try to compete with low price.

People Shop Price. They Buy Value
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It is great to sell VALUE because you have two different groups of value to sell. One- The value of your product. Two- Your value. Your uniqueness.. USV's - Unique Selling Value -- What is unique about you that is not unique about your competition?

Ya But will make you a lot of money
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Every sales person hears it all the time.  Your price is higher than (so and so’s)  I did not think it would cost that much.  I like it but I do not think it is worth that much. And when sales people hear anything negative about their price they either lower the price (which of course is the worst thing in the world they can do) or they lose the sale. You do not have to. All you need to do is use the "Ya But" close.

Opportunity Does Fall Into Your Lap……
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Opportunity Does Fall Into Your Lap…… …. If you are Aggressively looking for it

Increased Aggressive Selling = Increased sales
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Aggressive Selling IS the key to selling success in your fierce competitive market

All ya need is Attitude and Ownership to have selling success
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This is what separates the successful from all the others

When will the customer buy?
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Your customers will buy from you when they perceive:  Your price is fair  The risk of purchasing is low  Their gain is high Your JOB… Giving the customer the proper perception

‘Aggressive’ is not a 4 letter word
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Aggressive Marketing and Selling is the key to selling success in your fierce competitive market

Shut up and take the money
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Are you over selling? Are you listening for the customers ‘Closing Statements?’ A ‘Closing Statement’ is anything the customer says that is positive about your product, service, business or you.

10 Top Business Assumptions that cause you to lose money
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Stop maiking Bad Business Assumptions and your sales & profits will grow

Getting Recommended By Others Will Increase Your Profits
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Over the past 30 days you have purchased many items and services. If you are like most of us you are completely satisfied with the products and services you purchased. But how many of the sellers have you recommended to your friends, family and colleagues? If you are completely satisfied why haven’t you recommended the sellers to other? I know you are busy; it is not at the top of your mind. Not a priority. You have come to expect satisfaction from the sellers you buy from. You just have not thought about it.

Ask Questions … and Get Rich
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Ask your customers questions and make sure you are selling them what they want to buy. Solutions to their problems, needs and wants! # 1 Rule in Selling is: The seller who solves the customer’s problems, needs and wants the easiest fot them will get the sale.

Top 10 reasons for NOT providing sales training and education
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When does a sales professional no longer need sales training? When they quit breathing!!

Do you keep the customer when the bread is moldy?
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6 steps to handling Difficult Customers

Your customers can only have 2 out of 3… Or your lose money!
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Customers want three things from you. • Great service • Top quality products • Low price And it would be great if you could figure out how to give them all three and make money, but no one ever has.

Shout it from the rooftops?
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Do you know the 3 most powerful words in Marketing? The 3 words that gain the most attention from your customers / prospects. The 3 words that most cause the customer / prospect to continue reading your marketing material and listening to your marketing message.

What you got will make you money
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When you want to increase your sales and profits you do not have to reinvent your marketing and selling techniques. You do not have to hire an expert to bring in new selling and marketing ideas.

“Don’t get down in the mud with the pigs.
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You will both get dirty and the pigs love it.

Do you have Renowned Customer Service?
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Do your customers leave your store / take delivery of your products and think, "Wow, it is so nice to buy from this business!!" Is your business well known / famous for your customer service? Do your customers tell others about you? If not, you do not have renowned customer service. Face it. Your customers can buy the products and service you sell from a lot of different competitors. The only thing you really have to differentiate your business and yourself is your service.

Selling swimming pools is the same as selling what you sell
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6 Lessons about selling Lesson # 1: Make sure the person the customer talks to on the telephone is a good representative for your business. Lesson # 2: Never assume you know what the customer’s problems (needs and wants) are. Lesson # 3: Listen to the customer. Lesson # 4: Give the customer choices of solutions to pick from. Lesson # 5: Follow up, Follow up, Follow up Lesson # 6: Use the magic words – “Who do you know?”

How you must be like the wise old German Shepherd
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You have got to have a back up plan to survive and prosper

Advertising & Referrals -The Two Big Punches of Marketing
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The 5 reasons to advertise and why to use referrals

Stop Viewing The Past Through Rose Colored Glasses
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Stop viewing the past through rose colored glasses. It was not all that good then and things are not all that bad today!

A Luxury Once Had Becomes A Necessity
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Two techniques to turn a luxury into a necessity in the buyers mind. A luxury an item that is desirable but not essential. a product or service that gives great pleasure.

What is the first thing your mother taught you to say after Ma Ma and Da Da?
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Sellers cannot say thank you too many times. I am sure most salespeople say thank you at the time of a sale, but if you really want to make an impression on your customer, and who doesn’t, say thank you when they do not expect it. They will be delighted. Their delight will turn in to future sales.

Sometimes Customers Lie
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What should you do when the customers lie? 1. Make sure you are correct in your point of view or claim. 2. Ask the customer in a professional manner to prove his claim. 3. Make sure you never offer something you cannot deliver. 4. Sell the benefits the customer receives from your product / service

Do a better job, and you will get paid more
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Do a better job selling BENEFITS and your sales and profits will increase.. Guaranteed!

Stop Giving It Away!! Don’t be afraid to get paid for your services
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Here it is. The 100% Guaranteed technique to never having the customer say or think “NO” when you are asking for the sale:

An old refrigerator will show you how to INCREASE YOUR PROFITS
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INCREASE YOUR SALES IMMEDATELY When you are selling to your customer talk to them about the benefits. Never talk about the features unless you talk about the benefits too.

How to create Word Of Mouth Advertising
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It’s the best advertising and cost nothing.

Convenience wins in the end
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The profitable businesses are doing it, why shouldn’t you?

Top 10 Ways to Take Customers from Your Competition
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Your competition is the best place to find people already buying your products and service.

An open letter to my competition
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A letter from the aggressive seller in the market, who is taking your customer’s away from you.

You're Not Lost Until You Are Out Of Gas
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Everyday I receive telephone calls and email message from sales professioanls and business owners asking what to do increase their sales. Their sales are down, and expenses are up. Lower store traffic, some even have bills past due. Many are worried they are losing so much business that they will not survive. But they are not lost until they are out of gas.

It Doesn’t Take Much
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A true story about how little it takes to make a big difference. A life changing experience of Brad Anderson, Service Manager for Southeast Industrial Equipment Charlotte NC.

Use What You Got
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When my clients tell me what they don’t have I tell them how I “Used What I Got” to become very successful in the appliance business.

30 Seconds can make you a lot of Dollars
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A 30 second follow-up call increases sales 20% to 40% for the top sales producers

Overcoming Objections with the "Turn Device"
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Turn the customers objection into a sales close by using the "Turn Device". They will close themselves.

9 Quick No Cost ways to increase sales and profits
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1.The Power of the Three Foot Rule 2.Listen Aggressively 3. Tell your customer all you do for them 4.Do not judge a book by it’s cover 5. Don’t waste your customer’s time 6. Use the word all 7. Follow-up call to B-Backs 8. Telephone every customer 12 hours after the sale 9. How saying Thank you will increase Sales

Market to them until they Buy or until they Die!!!
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3 Rules of contacting prospects that will increase your sales 1. Market to your Perfect Prospects 2. Contacting prospects with VALUE 3. Market to them until they Buy or until they Die

Are you taking advantage of your most valuable selling asset?
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If people purchased your products and services once, they will buy from you over and over and over if they remembers you.

A Real Bad Business Assumption:
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Assuming you know the perception the customer has of you and your business

Back to the things that worked
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Is it time for you to go back to the ways you use to promote your business and sell your products and services? USA TODAY: 10/3/07 Sears Reviving holiday Wish Book Fourteen years after shelving its venerable catalogs, Sears is reviving the holiday tradition as it struggles to attract new shoppers and revive business.

Shooting Fish in a Barrel
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“How many salespeople are sitting around waiting for someone to call? How many are still hawking the same old products with the same old lines? How many are looking to the same, rather than developing new customers? How many believe they don’t need sales training?”

Turn incoming calls into sales & profits
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The top sales performing businesses understand how very important the telephone is as a selling tool. They understand: 1. Customers and prospects telephone the business because they have a need, problem or want. 2. Many times the telephone conversation determines whether the prospect becomes a customer or whether the customer remains a customer of the business. 3. The person answering the telephone is a very important provider of customer service for the organization. 4. The person answering the telephone has a great opportunity to gain customers and obtain sales.

What Does Good Service Mean… To You? To Your Customer?
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Try this short experiment. It may be an eye opener for you, and you may get surprised: Have everyone in your organization write a 25 word explanation of “What is Good Service.” You may be surprised.

To Romance or Not To Romance
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Like most endeavors, there is more than one way to do things. When I asked longtime married couples how their relationship started and grew they unanimously told me, “We started slow, got to know each other and built a lasting relationship. “Now, I am not a romance consultant. I am a marketing consultant, but the same technique that works to sustain long and happy marriages for a lifetime of happiness, works for gaining and retaining your most profitable customers for a lifetime of profitable selling.

When you hear, "Your Price Is Too High!!
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When your customer tells you your price is too high—You have made the sale. That’s right. They are telling you • The product you are selling satisfies all their needs • he product solves their problems • They love your product/service • They want your product/service Now all you have to do is show them your product is worth more to them than their money. All you have to do is turn the feature Price into a BENEFITT.

FREE – A powerful sales technique
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FREE – A powerful sales technique or a drain on your profits: Your choice There is no free lunch. Your customers are much smarter than they use to be and are wise to the fact you cannot stay in business giving things away. So one of the most powerful marketing words in commerce - FREE has lost its punch. Lost its punch if you do not use it properly. Free is still one of the most powerful words in marketing if used properly.

Need a new idea? Ask your staff.
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“You must continually find new ideas, strategies and techniques to increase your sales and profits. If you are not moving forward you are falling behind. There is no such thing as staying even in the selling business.” Who talks to your customers more than you do? Who knows what will most satisfy your customers? Who knows what will attract customers to your business? Your Staff!

Employees are your life blood. Don’t spring a leak.
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Maximize employee longevity, productivity and loyalty

The Customer Is Always Right. Even When They Are Positively Wrong
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Every business and sales person talks about their great customer service. Very few have it. This article is about the greatest consumer service story of all times and how you can build and grow your business using it.

The Clock Starts Ticking - How not to bomb out with waiting customers
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If you ask your customers, “Do you feel more time-poor or money-poor,” the answer almost always is time-poor.

Bad Business Assumption:Assuming You know The Perrception The Customer Has Of You
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With the customer having many, many businesses to purchase the products and services you sell it is very important that you do not assume the customer views you the way you wish them to.

How to be around to celebrate anniversaries and make a profit every year
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Having, fortunately, been around the selling world for over 45 years I have seen businesses come and I have seen them go. I’ve noticed the ones who have stayed in business and profited have a few things in common.

The Four Things Every Employee Can Do To Increase Sales And Profits
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We all know the customer is the most important person in our business, but sometimes we forget that the second most important person in the business is any employee.

Don't Make The Cutback Mistake
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Things to do when your market is slow to increase your sales and profits.

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