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It's Lonely at the Top
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| Being an entrepreneur or leader in a small business can be a lonely place. Find out how to get the support you need to be EVEN more successful. |
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Getting Appointments over the Phone By Mike Le Put
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| If your selling cycle depends on getting FACE TO FACE appointments, then you must become outstanding in this master skill of selling appointments. It is the start of your sales production line and will ultimately determine your success. |
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The Inside Word on Word-of-Mouth Marketing
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| In this interview Dave Balter explains word-of-mouth marketing. Balter founded BzzAgent in 2002. His company has provided word-of-mouth media services for dozens of Fortune 500 companies and has been featured in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and on National Public Radio. |
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New Metrics for the Sales Force - Unusual Thoughts for Unusual Times
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| More is less - you will close more sales if your salespeople book fewer appointments but concentrate on more quality appointments. Quality is not how well your salespeople are received, it's the fit and need of the opportunity. |
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What it Takes to Get More Appointments
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| Without question, the most popular requests I receive each week are for help with making appointments and, specifically, creating positioning statements. For example, Pat and I traded about 6 emails over the past 10 days to get his positioning statements just right.
But what if you nail your positioning statement but you're still struggling to get appointments?
My guess is that you're doing one of the following things ineffectively... |
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It’s the Holidays!
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| Prospects make appointments and conduct business before, during and after the holidays, just as they do at other times throughout the year. |
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Zoar in Your Zone
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| us...we too need to find our "zone".
All of us have zones of energy, creativity, sleepiness. Does it make sense to work creatively in your sleepiness zone? Of course not...yet we will schedule appointments and take on projects when we are disconnected from our own energy. So take a week and make a note in your calendar of the times you feel E for energized, S for sleepy and C for creativity. Then schedule your appointments around your own zone.
When you're working in your zone, you never look at a clock! Read this for tips to zoar in your zone!
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How To Get Appointments With Crazy-Busy Customers
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| What’s the real secret to land appointments with insanely busy customers? How can you deal with postponements, excuses, unanswered emails and missed calls? Here are 4 must-have tips to get appointments with your crazy-busy clients. |
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What Are You Harvesting?
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| Talk about a cliche - we actually went for a drive in the country last Sunday. That's right, a "Sunday Drive," like people used to do two and three generations ago. It was delightful to roam around the southern Colorado countryside, with no time pressures and no particular destination. We ended up patronizing a roadside "farmer's market" fruit-and-vegetable stand, and it got me thinking about inspiration.... |
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Working Backwards From Your Goal To Get Ahead
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| It is always interesting when you sit with a group of sales people and the subject turns to sports. No matter what the sport, there is the inevitable talk of the leaders and their potential accomplishments over the course of the season. The athlete’s numbers are dissected and analyzed from all angles, usually in connection with a pool or a wager. Like athletes, sales professionals need to track their stats if they want to consistently outperform. How many at bats? Or better yet how many appointments did you have this year, and how is that versus last year? Is that number of appointments adequate to get you to your goal? |
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Five Proven Ways to Get More Appointments
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| This time of year you see a lot of surveys about sales, views of sales leaders and their goals for the year ahead. One consistent theme is the need for more prospecting both within existing accounts and for new clients. This can not be accomplished without getting appointments, probably the least liked activity for all sales people, veteran or new. It's not rocket science: Sales come Prospects, Prospects are a result of meeting with people: Appointments. |
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