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MLM vs. Top Tier Direct Sales Marketing
MLM businesses are a dime a dozen in today's highly competitive world. Many MLM business owners are struggling to find new reps to sign up for a number of reasons. On the other hand are top tier direct sales marketing businesses, where a onetime payment is made rather than long term residual incomes. Which is the better option? For many who are facing the struggles of the MLM market, top tier direct sales are a better option.
Moments of Truth Are Potential Opportunities for Sales Success
Are you finding moments of truth as potential opportunities or obstacles? How well you handled these experiences can deliver additional sales success.
Making Meetings Matter
How to make meeting matter more.
Is Ford's auto-xchange the "Real Deal?" (Survey Response 6)
In a recent video that was released by The Ford Motor Company, Ford's Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Jim Yost indicated that the company has to "share information in real-time" and therefore can no longer use "the sequential processes” in which there were many “handoffs" and "transfers of information." Yost also emphasized the fact that Ford needs to "integrate much more closely with their customers, supply base and even internally," as well as stressing the importance of making information available to multiple levels of their supply base "simultaneously," thereby eschewing the current "cascade processes that might take days, weeks and even months" to disseminate. To enable you to respond to this question, you can access both the video as well as the corresponding article by contacting the author.
Word-of-Mouth: The World's Best-Known Marketing Secret
Everyone knows about it, but hardly anyone does it well. It's time to change your approach to word-of-mouth marketing.

The ROI of Networking
Is networking really worth the trouble?

Build Relationships That Last
Follow these three phases of relationship marketing and networking, and your connections will be here to stay.

Building a Think Tank for Your Business
Use existing contacts and make new ones to create your own expert network.

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“A Business Coach’s Top Ten Tactics for Marketing Professional Services”
Marketing professional services is a real and difficult challenge. The challenges of marketing professional services are different from those of marketing products. Two major reasons for the differences are that clients cannot see or touch professional services before they buy them and the professional services are often produced and consumed simultaneously. And another reason is that marketing professional services is split among marketing, sales, professional and management staff instead of a dedicated marketing and sales force. Based upon my research and my own professional experience, I developed a Top Ten Tactics for marketing professional services. My top ten tactics for marketing professional services are:

THE 5 REASONS SUPERSTAR ATHLETES' HAVE A SECRET WEAPON-AND WHY YOU SHOULD TOO!
Question: What is the one thing Superstar Athletes have in common? Answer: A COACH ! Actually, they have a number of coaches, as well as advisors, to handle the different aspects of their personal and professional lives. Can you image Derek Jeter doing his taxes, negotiating his contract, or acting as his own financial expert? I'm not saying Jeter's not informed, what I am saying is that he hires experts, so he can focus on and practice what he does best: play baseball. If you want to play in the "big leagues" and build a superstar business, do what professional athletes do: get coached. Professional athlete or small business owner, here's what a coach can do for you:

Strategies To Increase Fees Performance From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
Professional service firms are still struggling when it comes to increasing their professional fees & improving their performance. Too many firms are doing business basically as outsourced labor & getting paid strictly on number of hours of billable time plus expenses. The missing ingredient is not getting paid for the “value” they are providing to the client, which should always exceed the cost of the billable time. Some readers are already saying that this billing on “value received” will not work & will not be accepted. With that being said, I will attempt to outline some strategies that I believe will enable a professional services firm to increase their professional fees and improve their performance. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers the following strategies:

Ten Recommended Strategic Actions Needed Prior To Starting Your Professional Services Business
Every day there are multitudes of entrepreneurial spirited people who think about starting his or her own professional service business. And of that multitude, there is some lesser number that actually moves forward and starts their own business to provide professional services off various kinds. Your Strategic Business Coach has worked with numerous entrepreneurs in the startup phase of their professional services businesses and has learned some valuable lessons from those experiences. From those “lessons learned,” Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach offers ten (10) recommended strategic actions that you need to take prior to starting your professional services business.

THE TOO SALESY PARADOX WHY PROFESSIONAL SERVICE PROVIDERS CANT SELL AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT
By John Doerr The distress is obvious. The complaints are frequent. The clear disdain for the activity is surprisingly unfiltered. What are we talking about? Selling, or more specifically, selling professional services. In conversation after conversation as I work with clients, conduct seminars, or network with my professional colleagues, I hear the same comments: Selling conflicts with my values as a professional. Selling gets in the way of building strong relationships. You have to have it in your genes - like a used car salesman. I don't sell professional services - I work with my clients to create the best solutions. People won't respect me as a professional if I am selling to them. I can't sell to them. What will they think of me? It (selling) is not what we do around here.

How to Stop Suffering From I Hate to Sell But I Need to Pay My Bills
As a sales professional, small business owner or service professional have you ever suffered from either or both of theses thoughts? I hate to sell, but I need to pay my bills. Boy, if I could only do what I love to do. A recent survey of 135 business consultants, executive coaches ad professional facilitators revealed these exact thoughts. Read on to learn the answer to this dilemma.
Looking Good On Paper
When you go into business on your own, your stationery has to convey that you are a professional running a professional business. Looking good on paper is not an option. It is a requirement.
Use Your Email Signature
There are many branding opportunities that small businesses can and should be taking advantage of, the email signature is one of them. An email signature doesn't cost any money to setup, and it is a small, but important part of a professional image, and a professional brand. Every business email account should have a professional email signature associated with it. It's easy to make one, and it will remind your email recipients of the fact that you're in business every time you email them.

No Business Card Simply Means No Business
Have you attended a business networking event or a business conference and attempted to exchange professional business cards with another professional but he or she did not have one? What were your thoughts?
Become the Star You Are Meant to Be
You want more out of life than just a job. Whether you work for a large company, a startup, a nonprofit, or you are an entrepreneur, you want to be a star; a complete and total personal and professional success. But professional success is complicated and may be elusive. To achieve professional success and become the star you are meant to be you need a professional success blueprint.
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