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Increase Sales – The Key to Enormous Sales

Increase Sales – The Key to Enormous Sales

There’s one thing above all else that will increase your sales faster than anything else. There’s one thing above all else that will make it easier for you to sell what you have to offer than anything else. I’d like to tell you what that one thing is right now.

However, to help you understand its full impact I’d like to start by sharing an example of how it works. About 10:00 in the morning you leave your office to go visit a client and meet with a couple of new prospects. As you’re driving down the street to get to your client you drive past your favorite restaurant.

Yet at 10:00 in the morning you drive right past your favorite restaurant without even noticing it or thinking about it. You keep busy constantly on the go until about 2:00 in the afternoon when you finish visiting your last prospect. Now you’re ready to head back to the office.

As you get to your car and open the door it hits you. You are ravenous. It feels like your stomach is eating itself your head is pounding you even feel a little nauseous and all you can think about is eating. You want to eat and eat now because you’re starving.

So before you even get in the car you scan the businesses around you looking for some place to get something to eat quickly. You spot a restaurant right across the street. You don’t even like the food this restaurant serves yet you have to have something to eat and you need it now.

It never even crosses your mind to drive back toward your office stopping at your favorite restaurant on the way because you want to eat and you want to eat now. You represent the most important thing any business must have to sell a lot and do so quickly… a starving crowd. A starving crowd is the key to enormous sales no matter what business you’re in.

A starving crowd represents ready buyers. Ready buyers are already looking for what you have and they already want to buy it. They’re simply looking for who to buy if from. The business that wins their business is the one who presents the right message at the right time and helps them take action.

Every business is in business for a reason. Every business has a starving crowd. The key to increased sales is you must first identify your starving crowd. Then you must help them find you rather than you chasing after them. Plus you must provide the opportunity to connect with you when they want the way they want to get what they want.





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David Acheson is the founder of DCJA Consultancy. DCJA Consultancy is a management consultancy business specialising in B2B sales consultancy. They offer bespoke and packaged sales consultancy including Sales Optimisation Review, Interim Sales Management, Sales & Marketing Review, 1:1 Sales & Management Staff Analysis, Management Training, Solution Sales Training, Creation of New Pay Plan, KPI's, run Customer Feedback Campaigns, assist with Recruitment, Coaching, Appraisals and set up Strategic Marketing Campaigns.  David spent his early career in accountancy and then moved into sales in 1982, working in Office Equipment, IT, Advertising, Training, Outsourcing and Consultancy. He has held many Senior Positions in SMBs and Global Organisations including Head of Sales Operations & Head of Business Development. His knowledge, skills and great experience of the Sales Industry has led to David making keynote speeches and running educational sessions to key businesses through organisations including The Chamber of Commerce and Business Link. - Visit David Acheson's Website

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Dave Kurlan is the founder and CEO of Objective Management Group, Inc., the industry leader in sales assessments and sales force evaluations, and the CEO of David Kurlan & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in sales force development. Dave has been a top rated speaker at Inc. Magazine's Conference on Growing the Company, the Sales & Marketing Management Conference and the Gazelles Sales & Marketing Summit. He has been featured on radio and TV, including World Business Review with General Norman Schwarzkopf, in Inc. Magazine, Selling Power Magazine, Sales & Marketing Management Magazine and Incentive Magazine. He is the author of Mindless Selling and Baseline Selling – How to Become a Sales Superstar by Using What You Already Know about the Game of Baseball. He created and wrote STAR, a proprietary recruiting process for hiring great salespeople, and he writes Understanding the Sales Force, a popular business Blog and is a contributing author to The Death of 20th Century Selling and 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life, Volume 2. - Visit Dave Kurlan's Website

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Are your sales where you want them to be? Will you be one of the few who achieves sales or business success or one of the many who have failed to change? Are you tired of being told you are like everyone else? Then you may find my first book on sales of interest. Be the Red Jacket in the Sea of Gray Suits, The Keys to Unlocking Sales available at Amazon or at http://www.processspecialist.com/red-jacket.htm. This book is a reflection of my no-nonsense approach to improving sales to overall business results. If you are truly committed to making sustainable changes, then I can help you secure a positive return on your investment because I focus on executable solutions not telling you the problems you already know you have. From training to corporate (group) coaching to executive one on one coaching, my approach is to assess, create awareness, build a goal driven action plan and then execute. The bottom line question is "Not do you or your employees know it, but do you or they want to do it?" Please call for a free strategy session at 219.759.5601. - Visit Leanne Hoagland-Smith's Website

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