Posts Tagged ‘selling’

Sellwell 6 - sell soft, sell hard

Thursday, February 26, 2009 23:25 2 Comments

Sales negotiation is a difficult art. Most people mistakenly think that it revolves around price offers and price discounts. As Sun Tzu said:
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred sales meetings.
Well he didn’t say it exactly like that, but close enough. Every sales person knows [...]

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Social media selling

Sunday, February 15, 2009 11:24 1 Comment

How can you use social media to reach moms? Actually Noa Gafni defines the task little differently in Mashable, like this:
How to: Attract and engage social media moms
I DON’T WANT TO HAVE AN ENGAGEMENT
I don’t know about you, but what I want from moms is not their engagement I just want to sell to them. [...]

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Posting comments is cold calling

Friday, February 13, 2009 0:24 No Comments

Comment posting on other blogs is for blogging what talking to strangers is for sales. In both one have to grab the bull by its horns and start developing occasional contact towards meaningful relationship.
TWO SCHOOLS
There are two opposite ends on prospecting the other focuses on huge contact amounts and fast results, you might know [...]

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Sellwell 5 - shut up!

Saturday, February 7, 2009 0:44 No Comments

I went to a meeting. Overly enthusiastic man came to greet me. I have an issue with overly enthusiastic men, so in my mind I grinned and put up a happy face. He led me into a conference room where few more men were waiting for us. All of these men were overly enthusiastic and [...]

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Sellwell 3 - Grab the sale, service later

Friday, January 30, 2009 23:17 1 Comment

It is possible to fuck up even the most determined-to-buy customer if you are not presenting her a solution. They all want it and they know it. Just simple yes and cash at hand, so it’s done.
BEAUTY OF SIMPLICITY
Simplicity is the key in sales. Don’t waste time in finding customer’s needs, go for the money [...]

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Sellwell 2 - Wear a smile

Friday, January 30, 2009 0:11 1 Comment

To be able to sell, It is not enough to wear an uniform you also have to wear a smile. We believe that smiling people are happy, caring, loving, likeable and easy to approach. Not surprisingly, those are all qualities that any struggling salesman should acquire.
HOW TO SMILE?
Good news, we were all born with an [...]

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Sellwell 1 - Wear an uniform

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 23:55 2 Comments

You don’t have to go to work dressed as a fireman if you sell insurances. However you have to wear something that will make your potential customer feel comfortable. Door to door salesmen and saleswomen tend to have slightly scruffy look and boy are they normal or what? It is not surprise that used car [...]

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Recession on blogs

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 23:51 No Comments

Recession, financial crisis, downturn and bailout; everybody loves to write and talk about these things. But apart from having easy topic to vent about, how could we benefit from it? By writing about bad times we get attention, but very few businesses want to label themselves with negative issues or feelings. You have already noticed [...]

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