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Your Customers Can Help You Make More Sales - Click To Read Article
A surprising source of information!

Why Some Businesses Dont Get The Business
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Some, not all small business people want to blame the big stores for their woes. It\'s time they ask themselves the question, \"Am I taking care of my customers?\"

Where Is My Next Piece of Business Coming From?
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Keeping the pipeline full is important to every business person and to every sales person. Too often we get so busy we forget to develop business for \"down the road.\"

"There Is No Way I Want To Be in Sales!"
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There are a lot of misconceptions about what sales is and is not.

The Forgotten Art of Conversation
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It\'s too easy to not speak directly with a client or prospective client. Don\'t let e-mail and the web take over your sales life.

See No Ad, Hear No Ad, Make No Sales
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Before you can expect to make a sale, your advertising has to be noticed by a consumer that is flooded daily with hundreds of commercial messages.

Sales Prospecting Is a Dirty Business (or Why a Clean Desk Is Not a Good Sign)
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Prospecting is the foundation of sales. Just like digging a foundation when you build is dirty but necessary, so is prospecting. Without a good foundation your house can crumble. Without prospecting your sales business can also come down around you.

Say it again and again and again and again
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Many sales teams require some form of advertising to support their efforts. Whether you want to sell a service or a product, the same rules apply to effectively get your message to your target buyers...repetition.

My Customer Knows More Than I Do!
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Product Knowledge is Important. Keep repeating that. Product Knowledge is Important. You don\'t want to learn that your cusotmer knows more about your product than you do.

Its a Website Not a Hollywood Premier
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Seems like quite a few websites are designed by people who want to impress you rather than provide the service or information you are seeking. Just one more obstacle for your customer!

I Don’t Care About You
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It\'s time to think like your customers!

Huh? What?
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Listen for questions. If more salespepople understood this, the world would be a better place.

How I Navigated Through Telephone Hell
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Let\'s make it as difficult as possible for customers to do business with us!

Build Your Confidence-Make More Sales
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There is a golf story that says: \"The most difficult golf course is the one between your ears.\" The same can be said about making sales. There are more obstacles in your head than any prospective client will throw at you. Get over it!


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(Visit Don's Website) Don works with individuals and businesses that want to increase sales and grow revenue. He learned sales “on the street”, and through his StreetSmart Sellingtm sales training program ( www.streetsmartselling.com ) he takes his experience and turns it into practical ideas on sales and marketing. For over the past 30 years Don has been a consistent top-billing radio advertising rep, a radio sales manager, and for over 15 years, president of his own marketing and advertising agency. Today, He consults a variety of businesses on matters of marketing, advertising and sales. Now he takes this experience and translates it into an effective program of sales training for those who meet with clients on a direct face-to-face basis. Don is a member of the National Speakers Association, and the Maine Association of Professional Consultants. He can be reached at 1-877-DON-ZIHLMAN or don@streetsmartselling.com

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