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The Best Home-Business: MLM versus Direct Sales
When trying to decide on which home business to start working with to generate additional income, many times it comes down to making a decision between a standard MLM program and a program designed with more of a Direct Sales model. It is important to know the differences, because you need to match the program you choose with the goals you have set for your home business. Many of us who make our living online, still debate what is the difference between network marketing and direct sales. Even so, the vast majority of experienced network marketers would define these terms as follows:

The Basis of Sales Has Remained Stagnant
Did I get your attention? Good. Because I’m serious. Most of you would laugh, tell me I’m wrong, that the sales model has been shifting and that the Internet has ‘changed everything.’ But what, exactly, has it changed? I believe that basically, sales has not changed since the beginning. Sure, the bells and whistles have changed: it’s far, far easier to get leads and interest; it’s much simpler to get your message out; it’s much quicker to find out whatever you need to find out about prospects. It seems to appear as if buyer’s buying decisions are different (they aren’t, we just know more). But all of this leads to… leads to what?
The Future of Sales
For centuries, the sales model has been focused on placing a solution. Given the complexity of business these days, having the right solution to manage a ‘need’ is not enough to help buyers choose your solution. Buyers live in a very complex world now. With global stakeholders, economic downturns, enlarged decision teams, and an almost limitless number of options – all available at the drop of a hat – competition is far more complex than being addressed by us having a good solution and giving great service. And as a result, we’re having greater difficulty closing sales. We’d like to think it’s ‘the economy, stupid.’ But in reality, the problem is more complex.
Content Marketing: Is It Helping You Buy Me?
'Turn prospects into buyers with content marketing.' 'Create opt-in permission to deliver content through email using the drip/nurture system.' 'Deliver content to develop trust and authority.' What, exactly, do these claims mean? And how is this different from a pitch, or presentation, or a great blog or website?
How can I find an independant sales rep?
In my opinion, a business owner should only engage a salesperson, either independent or otherwise, when there is a proven sales process and structure in place. This will enable a new person to integrate quickly and successfully to develop their own unique selling style and be guided by the support of an established sales model.
How much are your salespeople really worth?
Commission only salespeople can be effective - however one of the major problems with a comm-only sales strategy is that salespeople in these roles, more often than not, become all about 'the sell' for obvious reasons: no sale -no pay -no eat!
How to Put Consulting into Consultative Selling
To describe a sales approach as "consultative" doesn't really explain it. It's a broad identifier, like saying someone is religious, which doesn't say what kind of religion. Saying you are a consultative salesperson is like saying you're in the category of "solution-oriented selling" vs. the category of "fast-talking carnival hawker." But that doesn't mean you know HOW TO DO it.
The most important advice I can give you
The following is the most important piece of advice that I can give you.

Loyal Customers Build Sales
Having satisfied customers is no guarantee of improved business results. Satisfaction is a passive state: a willingness to stay until something better comes along. Loyalty is a long-term commitment to the brand or organization and is linked to share-of-wallet and retention. Identifying and measuring what’s important to the customer and improving your company’s performance on those critical issues is a proven way to build revenue and retain customers.
Enterprise Sales - Friend or Foe
The key to being able to achieve a company's goals is to stay focused and keep people on task. But, too often upper management and sales teams are lured by opportunities of selling your solution to large enterprise companies. Learn if these large engagements are real potential or false hope and whether these large engagements are keeping your company from achieving its overall goals.
Does the sales model do what we need it to do?
Sales has been around since the Serpent convinced Eve to eat the apple. And, unfortunately, the goals have remained pretty much the same ever since.
A Buying Decision is a Change Management Problem
The sales model focuses on needs assessment and solution placement. Buying is a change management activity. They are two different activities, done at two different – and opposite – points along the buying decision journey.
Stop Selling...Start Clicking!
Small Business Owners...get ready to boost your business beyond what you ever thought possible by using The Magic Click! to create a solid and trustworthy foundation with each and every prospect.
Stop Selling...Start Clicking!
Small Business Owners...get ready to boost your business beyond what you ever thought possible by using The Magic Click! to create a solid and trustworthy foundation with each and every prospect.

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Overenthused And Undercapitalized
Your sales and marketing success depends on your business model. There are three main business models and what you sell and how you sell it is dependent on having a plan and process that is alignment with your model.
Origins of NLP
Back in the 70's NLP started as a meta-model, or a model for making and changing other models. The NLP meta-model focuses on verbal models, and how language both shapes and reflects human thought. The two explained their meta model in The Structure of Magic. They first used the meta-model to find how highly successful therapists like Milton Erickson and Virginia Satir managed to help so many people. They wanted to know: What language and behavioral patterns did these therapists have? In Erickson's case, how did he consistently produce deep hypnotic trances? What happened in the client's mind as they changed?

Hiring the Ideal High Value Sales Person Opportunity No 2
More and more companies have invested in higher value products, services, or solutions, which are especially relevant when the economy slows. And yet many sales people, and their managers, are unable to adapt to this new model. So to help some of our customers seize this opportunity to recruit and train to this model, we conducted a number of surveys in order to define some of the key qualities that needed to be found to improve the recruiting of this breed of sales person. This article outlines both the survey methodoloy and the highlights of our findings.
Formula for Sales Templating
Sales templating is a technique that can help you develop a consistent sales process regardless of the background of your individual salespeople. What is sales templating? It is the technique by which you document the steps of the ideal typical sale. Sales templating allows you to capture the best practices and nuances of each of your salespeople to create a model sales process that all of them can follow. In addition to making your job as manager easier, sales templating will improve the performance of your sales force. By creating an overt, step-wise sales template or process, you give the salesperson the means to maintain control of the sales situation.

Where Does Winning More Sales in Business Start?
Winning! What a great word. To explore winning more sales in business begins with a sound business model. In the book, "Corporate Canaries," Gary Sutton addressed the warning signs when your current business model is not working.

The C Factor!
Assembling a 'dream team' sales force is not as difficult as you may first think. I've known of businesses reaching great heights through the salesmanship of only a few sales-guns! Before creating a 'dream team' you need to have at least one exceptional salesperson you can model. Someone has to go there first! Whether this person is the company founder, (if sales savvy,) or a senior leader, there must be a working best-practice sales-process you can model and replicate. Once you have a high performing salesperson to model; their core characteristics, behaviours, and activities, then form the blueprint (DNA) of your 'dream team'. Keeping in-mind, that it's ok to have varying personalities in the same team, this enables your team to demonstrate versatility and engage a diverse customer base. You don't need to 'literally' clone sales

Internet Business Model
Compared to the traditional business model, the internet business model is in many ways more powerful and absolutely more accessible to anyone. Entrepreneurs from all walks of life are successfully implementing this business model.
Get Onto The Buying Decision Team On The First Call
When I tell sales folks their sales cycle is double what it should be, they assume I’m lying. But I’m not. I’m just using a different model than sales to being my client contact: Given that the typical sales model builds in time delays and leaves the seller out of the behind-the-scenes discussions going on, there is no way to get onto the Buying Decision Team on the first call.
Business Model vs Business Plan
A business model is not a business plan and a business plan is not a business model. Your business plan documents how you will execute your business model. Your business model is your proprietary methodology used to acquire service and retain your customers.
An Author’s Dilemma: Surviving the Seismic Shifts in the Book Trade
Book tours are going the way of the LP in the music industry. They are still there, but they’re becoming more and more scarce. As with all types of intellectual property, book sales are being hit hard. The model that worked so well only a few years ago, is now broken. It takes more work and authors now have to be marketers as well as writers, but with these shifts come opportunities. The model has changed and the game has shifted, but, the days of the successful author, need not be a thing of the past.
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