entrepreneurship

Translating Consultant Gobbledegook

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New entrepreneurs need start up advice in simple, direct language.  Not consultant speak intended to confuse and impress.  They have enough problems, with all the B/S they get from government agencies (who nothing about the subject), vendor marketing pitches designed to part them from their start up cash. The last thing start up entrepreneurs need [...]

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3 Simple Tools For Small Business Success

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A sales management process and the right tools for small business selling will increase your chances of succeeding as an entrepreneur. We’ve talked about a number of philosophies and concepts to help small business owners make the most of their opportunities in this blog. But there are 3 which stand out as simple to understand, [...]

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Solving My Prospect List Puzzle

Sales Manager

Prospect lists are simple, right? except they’re rarely even close to reality. A bit like fairy tales. No wonder we don’t like making them. No wonder we’re reluctant to rely on them. No wonder we’ll change them for new ones at the end of the month, and ignore what went on before. Too often the [...]

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Key Step in Starting a Business is Sales Training

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Starting your own business is exciting, and challenging, and very hard work. Made much harder by the fact that small business owners are invariably strong in their particular expertise but weak in business management skills, particularly in sales. They need training, and especially sales training. Building a small business is even harder, because the sales [...]

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Find Deals You Can Close, Focus on Those in the 4th Quarter

Sales Manager

Strategy for Sales and sales management is never more important than at the beginning of the 4th quarter. This is when the tough get going. With just 3 months left until the clock goes back to zero, now is when we win a reputation, and build our bonus. Everybody with an interest in revenue and profit [...]

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How To Be Successful in Sales – Without Being Great

Sales Coach

Do good customers buy from bad sales people? How come there are so many really bad sales people making money in this world when the professional guys are finding life hard? If you’re the CEO and wondering why that difficult, unsociable, lazy, good for nothing rep makes more money than you do? Or if you’re [...]

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Selling Gets Harder Every Day

Internet Enabled Business

In the race to the bottom selling gets harder each day and the customer always wins. Selling anything these days is harder than it used to be. The noble (some would say black) art of sales is supposed to be easier. With all these possibilities for meeting and influencing customers in blogs and social networks [...]

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4 Sales Tools to Increase Productivity

Sales Forecast

Four simple Sales Tools can make the difference between the average sales performer and the Ninja superstar. They have nothing to do with clever tricks or motivating philosophies. They have everything to do with being organised, focused and productive. Anybody responsible for sales, from the raw recruit to the Managing Consultant, will produce more revenue [...]

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When Are You Going to Get That Deal

Sales Qualification

In qualifying a sales deal WHEN a decision will be made is just as important as HOW that decision will be made, WHO will make it and WHY they’ll make it. If the prospect doesn’t have a time frame planned it probably isn’t going to happen, for anybody. So these are 4 of my main [...]

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