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By Alex Gardner
A New Year calls for a new perspective.
Imagine yourself wearing old, dirty, cracked glasses with an outdated prescription. You may think you see the world fine, but that’s because you’ve worn them for so long that you don’t even realize anything is amiss.
This is the predicament for many traditional sales professionals. From real estate and mortgage to insurance and technology, there’s been a gradual and consistent decline in commissions, renewals, bonuses and perks.
It’s like squinting a little more each day without realizing you’re almost blind.
But not all professional sales people are losing sight. Many have shed their old spectacles and replaced them with an updated pair that gives them a clear, unclouded perspective. As a result, they are flourishing in their sales careers-even to the point of realizing their vision of retiring from full-time sales with residual income.
We hope the following tips can will shed some light on their point of view and provide clarity on how to reinvent-and reinvigorate-your sales career in 2012 and beyond.
1. Survey your field.
With your shiny, new glasses on, take a good, hard look at your sales industry. While it’s important to stay optimistic (sales folks can be optimistic to a fault), it’s also vital to be realistic.
Let’s say you’ve been in health insurance sales for ten years. It’s likely that your income has taken a significant hit over the last few years-not to mention near annihilation of your renewals. So if things go as planned and the Healthcare Reform Act is implemented, how might that affect your income? Will health insurance sales still be a viable career? What needs to happen for change to occur? Is that realistic or wishful thinking?
How about real estate? What have the past six to twelve months been like? Is that likely to change or remain the same in the next six to twelve months? If the market stays relatively unchanged over the next two to three years (or longer), can you hang on?
These questions aren’t meant to be doom and gloom, but if the environment around you is changing and you can’t adapt, then it might be time to enhance your product/service offerings or move to a more viable sales field.
2. Appraise greener pastures.
Remember Richard Dreyfuss’ character in the 80s movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills? He played a millionaire who had made his fortune in… hangers. The seemingly bland, insignificant business of making and selling hangers brought him and his family great wealth and comfort.
This is not to suggest that you go out and start selling hangers. The point is that, more often than not, it’s the products and services that we take for granted that offer the most opportunity.
Take, for example, the small and mid-size business sector. As competition increases, smaller companies providing products and services to consumers need a lot of support in order to compete with bigger businesses that have more resources.
If you decide that it’s time to strengthen your sales portfolio – or even reinvent your sales career entirely – consider looking for products and services that provide specific, nondescript solutions to small and mid-sized businesses.
Providing behind-the-scenes solutions that resolve their day-to-day problems and consistently make their life easier is likely to increase your value to the marketplace while solidifying your sales career.
3. Look for structure and support.
As most sales professionals know, there are ample ups and downs in sales. And when you’re reinventing yourself in your sales career, sometimes it can seem like your “downs” are more prevalent than your “ups.” Especially in the beginning.
This is why it’s pivotal to have a strong support team in place that can help guide and encourage you every step of the way.
This does not mean a support team that’s cheering from the sidelines but doesn’t have skin in the game. The best way to reinvent yourself in your sales career is for your support team to:
- Be actively and successfully selling the product or service you’re looking to sell;
- Have an established track record selling the product or service and training others to do the same;
- Deliver training that is comprehensive, current and consistent so you learn how to be successful selling that product or service.
Too many sales organizations are being led by people who have very little relevant experience selling the products and services being promoted by the company. When a sales rep faces a challenge, they are often fed empty motivation that does little to solve their actual problem or advance them in their career.
To avoid this frustration, carefully evaluate support systems for how they walk the talk.
Auld Lang Syne (the good old times)
Many sales professionals are nostalgic for the bygone sales days when things were simpler (though never easy) and companies were more loyal to their reps. In fact, some are still looking at the present sales landscape through that outdated lens. They are hesitant to adjust their vision because it may mean a temporary period of blindness.
Unfortunately, when they stumble and fall, it takes them longer to recover.
The path to a more prosperous life and sales career may mean that you momentarily see things worse than you did before. But the journey of reinventing your sales career isn’t one you need-or should-navigate alone. If you have an accurate roadmap, it’s one that will bring you more clarity and confidence with each step.
So what does the New Year look like for you? Does your current sales landscape look vast with green opportunity ahead, or is it starting to look like the dust bowl? What will you do to ensure an impressive income and enjoyable journey in your sales career in 2012 and beyond?
Alex Gardner is National Marketing Director at http://UnitedSalesPros.com where he’s collaborated for 10+ years with a nationwide group of active, top-producing, commission-only sales enthusiasts who earn their living making sales. United Sales Pros provides a platform for independent, commission-based sales professionals in any industry to access cutting-edge, relevant, valuable, and applicable resources to help them advance in their sales career. We invite you to take full advantage of the fresh ideas that are shared on http://UnitedSalesPros.com, offer your own commentary and insights, and to suggest topics you’d like to see addressed related to commission-based sales.
The art of selling is a complex and challenging process. With a framework in place you can ensure that you are positioned to achieve sales success with confidence and realise your goals.
Set Objectives
The best way to motivate your sales performance is to have clear and defined objectives. Assess your market, market conditions and how your product or service is positioned. What support tools are in place to help you achieve sales? Are you supplied with qualified leads, or do you have to find them yourself? Does your product have a strong branding presence that will help you leverage your sales activity?
Define the prospecting activity you need to undertake and have a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system in place to track it all the way through from initial contact to sale, follow up and beyond.
Set some targets that are achievable – and then stretch them a bit. You must believe that your targets are achievable otherwise you will spend too much time worrying about how you can’t achieve them rather than how you can. However at the same time you should aim to stretch yourself to avoid complacency.
Do Research
Ensure that you know everything there is to know about your target customer, your product or service and the products and services offered by your competition.
Be Prepared
Be prepared to offer alternatives to a customer – don’t assume that because a customer enquires in regard to a specific product or service that the specific product or service is actually what they are looking for. For all you know they may actually require something quite different which you won’t know until you have the conversation.
Build Rapport
Do everything you can to build a connection with your customer. Watch for cues in the body language and facial expressions displayed and mirror these. Look for opportunities during your conversation to establish common ground. It is all about building trust. The more that the customer feels like you understand them and the more they feel you have in common, the more trust they will have in you, and the chances of making a sale will increase proportionately.
Being empathetic is one of the strongest sales skills you can have. If you have the ability to see from the customer’s perspective you will be better able to understand their needs and respond appropriately.
Ask Effective Questions
Ask the right kind of questions, and you will gain the information you need to help you make the sale. Start with broad, open ended questions that will generally provide you with a number of avenues you can pursue to hone in on what the customer really wants. Stay on track and keep control of the conversation.
Listen
If you don’t listen effectively, then it is highly likely you may miss many valuable cues that the customer provides. Don’t listen with half an ear and be trying to formulate your next question or response. Listen first – then respond. Don’t rush the process and don’t be aggressive.
Explain the benefits
When speaking with a customer, you should talk about the benefits of the product or service. Customers want to know what advantages they will gain from your product or service and how it will fulfill their needs. The features of the product or service are a support mechanism for the benefits.
Meet objections
Listen carefully to objections. They may well present you with opportunities to showcase the benefits of your product or service and how it can satisfy the customer’s needs. Often customers present objections because they are uncertain of their own needs or want more information. Other times objections are made because the customer has decided they actually don’t want what you are offering.
Sometimes you have to make a judgment call to stop wasting your time and the customer’s time if they have objections you just can’t counter. Don’t take it personally. Move on to the next customer and invest your time more productively.
Close the sale
Watch for buying signals and simply ask for the order! And a word of advice for the over exuberant sales person – quit while you are ahead – if you have the order – thank the customer for the sale and leave them to get on with their business. And you can take some time out to celebrate your sale before you move on to your next customer!
Follow Up
After you have made the sale it is important to follow up with your customer to make sure they are satisfied with their purchase. This will help to build the possibility of future sales. You should also ask for referrals to new customers. Be mindful to take your cue from the customer as to how often you contact them. Some people will be happy with one follow up and then never to hear from you again until they call you when they are next ready to buy. Other customers will be happy to talk with you as often as you like. It is a delicate tightrope to walk and important that you are tuned in the subtle nuances of their responses to your follow up communications.
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In this industrialized era, getting a job is really difficult to do since you will have abundant competitors outside. Your educational degree or certificate will sometimes not help you because you need not only educational degree or training certificate but also skill and luck. Of course, it will be hard for you to face this strict competition. But, you can change your challenge to be opportunity by running your own business. Even though you do not have any knowledge around business management, you can dare to build your small business at first. If you have been successful to open your business, you have proven that you will be able to run next steps.
Running own business is not only about spending our money to but asset or modal but also about manage strategy and plan. It is normal if you do not really know about it. To fulfill your need of knowledge you can use the service of sales outsourcing consultant. By using the service of sales outsourcing consultant you will be able to manage your step from the first to the last in order to gain profit. This consultant will give any advice and strategy to help you anticipate any significant market changing.
Even though it looks easy to have sales team outsourcing for your business, the fact says the opposite. Getting professional and competent sales team outsourcing is quite difficult for you. So, it will be wise if you search for professional sales team on the internet or through friend recommendation. One of some credible and professional sales teams is Salesoutsourcing.org. The website offers you service to gain much profit for monthly and annual progress. And even you can get free sales consultant for the first time. By getting this first chance you can look at the quality of this company before you determine to use the service.
Sounds silly doesn’t it? Who would hide from their buyers?
Using voice mail and the Internet, many organizations are doing just that.
“Your call is very important to us, but not important enough to actually answer the phone.”
It started when some accountant figured out if a business had a machine answer the phone they wouldn’t have to pay a human being. It was a good idea for some businesses. However, the idea quickly evolved and voice mail became increasingly complex. Why not, the accountants reasoned, “externalize costs” further by having callers spend their time screening and directing their own calls? Surprisingly, even sales organizations that depend on incoming telephone inquiries have adopted complex voice mail systems.
To protect the guilty I’m offering a slightly fictionalized account of a call I recently made. All details except the names of the companies are true. I’m sure you’ve had similar experiences. Here’s how my call went:
Brringg, brringg! “Hello, you have reached Acme Industrial Widgets. For complete product, services and company information please visit our web site at www.Acinwidgets.com . (I am on their site as I hear this recording and, if I can get someone to answer a couple of questions, I am ready to do business.) Please listen carefully as our options have changed. If you know your party’s extension you may dial it now. For a company directory please press 7, for customer service please press 3, for sales please press 4…” Great, I want sales so I press 4. Brringg, brringg! “Hello, you have reached the sales department at Acme Industrial Widgets. No one is available to take your call. Your call is very important to us. Please leave your name and callback number and someone will get back to you shortly. You may also visit us on the web at blah, blah. blah…” I don’t leave a message and hang up.
The next company I call actually answers their phone! A pleasant professional voice says,” American Industrial Widgets, how may I direct your call?” “Sales please.” “I’ll connect you now.” “Sales, Mike Jones, how can I help you?” Mike, who was friendly, knowledgeable and articulate, answered my questions. My trust and confidence in the company soared. Mike then informed me of a special they were offering. I liked it. He got my $7800 order.
Millions are spent on advertising and marketing yet some companies don’t realize that most sales transactions of any size result from human contact. While the first company avoided the cost of answering their phones, the second got my business. I can’t help but wonder if the bean counters figured lost sales into the equation before celebrating the savings from not answering the phone.
If your organization has a complex voice mail system which makes it difficult for buyers to reach you, I suggest you change it. You might get a dedicated sales number that is separate from the main company voice mail system and actually (gasp!) answer it. If you are a smaller organization, consider getting a cell phone that is dedicated strictly to incoming sales calls and publish the number on your website as an alternative way to contact you. Incoming calls to the dedicated sales line can be call forwarded to the cell phone and contact can be made.
“Come on in, it’s a jungle in here!”
While the Internet is an incredible sales and marketing tool, it is a very dangerous place. Buyers are understandably cautious. Misrepresentations seem to be the rule. Scams abound. Clueless “experts’ offer to make you a millionaire overnight. Others dangle a variety of “too good to be true” rip-offs designed to separate you from your hard earned cash. You’ve seen their bogus promises: overnight weight loss, instant stimulus checks, miracle cures, the list goes on. On top of all this you can add tracking cookies, phishing, viruses, spam, spyware and Trojan horses.
It’s no wonder buyers are wary.
Unless you are in a league with Macy’s or Amazon, or well known within your industry, an essential job of your web site is to overcome buyer caution. Post a list of customer referrals, publish bios, offer a solid guarantee of satisfaction and have a strong privacy notice. While you can put all kinds of these commonsense “credibility enhancers” on your web site, a simple thing like including your street address and phone number really increases buyer confidence.
Whatever you do, unless you are a Geico giving instant online car insurance quotes, do not require potential buyers to submit an email inquiry form and wait for your response.
I don’t want to start a business relationship with an assignment from the seller. I refuse to spend my time filling out your intrusive online form in order to get a call back Could we at least say hello before I tell you my budget, time frame to purchase, number of employees and annual sales?
I also don’t want to leave a voice message and wait for a return call when you get around to it. I am the buyer. It’s my agenda, not yours. Want my business? Tell me who you are and talk to me!
by aaliyah
No one owns a car ceaselessly. Few of them have space, money, or desire to do so. Earlier or later on the time comes to sell car. Of course, the precise point in time to sell a car is differs for each one, but in this article there are a few tips that should be followed when you think it is your time. Significant how to sell a car is a very specific sort of knowledge. Promotion a car is not like selling a cycle. You want to make sure you get the most for your car and are not taken advantage of, or in twist, you don’t want to take advantage of or pass up a justifiable buyer.
There are two ways by which you can sell your car one is traditional and next one is none -traditional. In non – traditional way you can sell your car online and it is very easy and quickest way. In traditional way generally much lesser than the resale range of the car as the dealership wants to make sufficient money as they can formulate in this work. With Sell your car online you will get the actual range without any additional cost deduction from your earnings by listing the second-hand car sale via an online listing by holder. Even though additional money is the first benefit of Sell car online, you will also determine that when sell car online, you will attain a vast viewers with nationally based publicity while you are also able to get to determine a major number of possible buyers is the local field.
As we are best and get you the assurance of more money than CarMax is guaranteed .And the saving you will do go to you directly. We also provide a free no obligation assessment. We guarantee you that transactions take place on same day and get the cash same time.
Independent dealers and other franchises under range their customer’s deal to get an immediate profit. Not only do they earn money on the vehicle they traded, they also earn thousand on your trade. Most of the customer does not know how much their vehicle worth; here we prove the proper guidance so that they will get actual profit they deserve. Selling process is very easiest and quickest way. A free assessment online or by phone is provided on request. Our professional consultant will set up with our prospective clients so that your vehicle will be assessed .After assessment we provide a truthful and honest answer regarding offer for you vehicle. We always assure our clients for top cash for cars. Sell car is always takes responsibility for all the paperwork and plate removal after agreement has been done.
You know very well what you paid when you bought your car, but what could it possibly be worth now? To outline that out, take it to an old car broker. He makes a living formative what a car is worth and may be willing to give you an appraisal. If car is in fine situation and seller thinks he can sell it for profit, then seller may even make you can propose on the spot. Just stay in mind that any bid he makes takes into account the profit he plans to make.
If you think you would rather knob the sale yourself, that takes you to step of how to sell your car. Some step that you must follow before sell your car and this step is simple: Clean your car. Clean it like you may have by no means cleaned it before. Get all that material the kids have stuffed under the backseat. Wipe off slippery door handles. Don’t just clean it. You need to give it a good shine job too. If you don’t have time to spend the time or effort to do it yourself, take it to a car wash and have them do it for you. Either way, a clean car is a car that will sell fast ? Certainly faster than if you didn’t give it a good cleaning.
By this method you can sell your car and gain more profit.
Robert Kiyosaki is a millionaire investor and author of the famous “Rich Dad Poor Dad” series. Throughout all his books, he talks about how a sales job at Xerox transformed his life. In fact, he is so fascinated by sales that he recommends that everyone do a sales job if they want to build their own business or even succeed in personal life.
Isn’t it amazing that while talking about sales is good enough to scare a lot of people from a possible job opening, there are many hugely successful personalities who talk about sales as a life changing experience? What is even more surprising is the fact that these same people claim to have hated sales in their old days. It seems like they are looking at the same world through two different paradigms. It is as though working at a particular job taught them something more than the average person knows. It is all about the attitude, they say. But this statement is often misunderstood and misinterpreted, so here is a clarification.
Fear of Rejection: Our lives are paralyzed because we are afraid of rejection. Right from approaching a girl at the bar to talking to venture capitalists, we don’t try because we are afraid of rejection. On the contrary, a door to door salesman may have to visit 100 houses everyday, 90 of which will slam the door on his face. Salesmen develop the inherent positive attitude and move on to the next customer. Their mantra can be summarized as SWSWSWSW. This is not a typing error. It means:
“Some Will, Some Wont, So What, Someone’s Waiting”
Attitude Is About Choices: Attitude is just the sum total of thoughts that we have everyday. Science has proven that 90% of our thoughts are repeated daily. So the fear of rejection that we develop is repeated daily in our minds. Sales teaches us to choose our attitude. Despite many doors being slammed on his face, a salesman still walks up to the next door with a pleasant smile.
It Is About Putting Their Needs First: This positive attitude that sales inculcates also teaches us another very important lesson. It teaches us to give before we begin to receive. Salesmen have to convince people of the benefits that their product has offer before they can expect any monetary reward.
It is precisely for this reason that a sales career is recommended. The changes that one’s personality undergoes during this process are akin to metamorphosis. Salesmen are equipped to live better lives both personally and professionally because of their positive attitude.
It is not your customer’s job to remember you.
It is your obligation and responsibility
to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you.
~ Patricia Fripp
If you want to succeed in the cutthroat world of sales, you need more than marketing skills. You need to understand your customer and you need to be passionate about the product that you are selling. Let’s first try to understand the customer.
How People Think They Buy
People think that their buying behavior is completely rational. They believe that they have carefully evaluated their set of alternatives, considered the pros and cons, and then made a conscious choice.
How They Actually Buy
Expert salesmen will tell you that it is usually the first few minutes that determines the outcome of a sale. Almost everyone is an emotional buyer. They buy based on the trust and attraction they feel towards the product. At a subconscious level, they have already made a choice. They then rationalize backwards to convince themselves and the world. Most of the times, this logic is flawed and contains incomplete information.
The Success Mantra: Selling With Soul
Selling can be much simpler than what we imagine it to be, if we change our paradigms. It is difficult to accept that rationality plays a very limited part in the process. Here is how you can sell with soul for great results.
Listen to Emotions: The need recognition of the buyer is a primarily emotional event. You need to listen to the emotions that they are conveying through verbal and non verbal cues. Are they driven by fear? Or are they buying because they want acceptance from a group of people? If you reach the basis of the purchasing decision correctly, don’t tell it to them outright. Rather mould your benefits to fit the person. You will see your sales go through the roof, once you learn to identify and stimulate emotions.
Establish A Connection: The general population is wary of salesmen. Customers tend to be on their guard and scrutinize every word of what you say. You must get them to relax and trust you. That is when you will be able to mould their opinion. This is done by building rapport, establishing some common ground or telling them about a similar customer (which may be a fictional character). These techniques tell the customer that you know what they want.
The key to success is to try not be like the hard selling car salesman. Be subtle and persuade. Pushing only drives customer away.
by Anne Carter
A business plan for a retail store can either be a complex multi-page document created using a special software or it can be a page torn from a notebook. The purpose of a business plan will determine how much information should be included and what format you will use. For financing purposes, you’ll have a better chance of convincing someone to fund your company if there are plenty of details provided. Do you know what goes into a business plan? Here are the essential elements of an excellent retail business plan what what you need to take note of to include.
1. Executive Summary
An Executive Summary is critical to the success of the retail business plan. The Executive Summary offers synopsis of the business plan, and highlights the key points raised within. This part of the business plan is where you need to capture the reader’s attention so that he/she will be compelled to read on.
2. Business Analysis
The next section of your business plan is the Business Analysis. From the business structure, legal name, location and goods or services offered to an analysis of your customers and competition, this section will describe the nature of your retail business in detail. Using easy-to-read, common technology, keep in mind that you should never assume that those reading your business plan have the same level of technical knowledge that you do.
3. Marketing Strategy
The Marketing Strategy section of your business plan should explain how your retail business will penetrate your target market. Detail the company’s desired image and branding strategy. Give an overview of the company’s pricing strategies, current and potential marketing partnerships and provide documented research to back your plan in this part.
4. Products and Services
This business plan part is most important to retailers developing a business. The Products and Services section describes the goods and services offered, how they are provided, information about the vendors, and any plans for future growth of the product lines.
5. Management Plan
In the Management Plan section, the information will show that the retail business has the necessary human resources to be successful. This part of the business plan will answer questions about the key management personnel and their background, explain how the store will be staffed and detail all personnel compensation and benefits, including employment policies and procedures.
6. Financial Plan
Probably one of the more difficult parts of the entire business plan, the Financial Plan section will involve the company’s revenue and profitability model. This part assesses the amount of capital the retail business needs, as well as the proposed use of these funds and the expected future earnings. It include Break-even Analysis, Sales Forecasts, Balance Sheets and Cash Flow Statements broken down monthly for the first year and then annually for the next 2-5 years.
Once you’re done writing your business plan, go over through it a couple more times to make sure that you’ve included every important detail in your business.
If you’ve decided to have a garage sale, you without a doubt would like to make sure that a lot of people show up. If nobody comes to your sale, you’ve just wasted a ton of time – no to mention having to put all the stuff you hoped to sell back in your house. And it’s not just a matter of telling some friends and hoping that the word will just somehow get out. It won’t. Sure, some folks go looking for garage sales, but you also need to take action to be sure they find you.
This is when promotion becomes essential. With the correct promotion, you will get word of your garage sale out there so more customers end up arriving. And more customers means you can avoid having to start cutting your prices earlier to move merchandise.
Here are some great hints to help you promote your garage sales.
Tip #1 – Think About Advertising in Your Newspaper
One of the better suggestions for promoting garage sales is to look into advertising your sale in your local newspaper. The more people who know about your sale, the more likely it will be successful. In most cases a notice in the newspaper is moderately-priced, and you’ll be able to benefit from the considerable reach that paper has, too. Really do check this one out.
Tip #2 – Place Fliers Around the Area a Few Days Ahead of Time
Another of the leading methods for marketing garage sales is to position leaflets around your area a couple days in advance. You would like everyone to know about your sale so they’re able to plan to show up on the day you’re holding it. You will not only need to put up leaflets or small signs in your community, but find out if you can post fliers on store bulletin boards, too. With all the free templates on-line that you can download and customize on your computer, you should be able to print out some really attractive signs.
Tip #3 – Set Up Big Signs on your Big Day
On the actual day your garage sale is taking place, you will want to set up some big signs along side area roads. This way you really get the interest of people as they drive by. Make certain you put arrows on your sign and include your address as well to make it easier for individuals to find your home.
Promotion is very important if you want to have a successful garage sale. Keep these points in mind and apply them to be sure you have a lot of customers at your sale.
by Chuck Barnes
Once a buyer makes an impression of a property it because difficult to change. In today’s marketplace buyers so often drive by properties before they request showings or ask their buyer’s agent to set up a showing. Can you imagine having the single most beautiful home in your town on the interior but the buyer’s never see it because they were deterred by the exterior. So instead of buying your home they literally drive by and move on to the next property on their list of homes.
Showing attention to the outside of homes gives buyers the impression you take care of the smallest details and care a great deal about your property. Improving curb appeal improves your bottom dollar with higher offers and also less headaches during home inspections.
- Power washing the siding is a must – You can rent one very cheap, or ask your friends and I bet one of them will have one or know someone who does. Would you pay more money for a car that is recently cleaned or one that has driven through the mud? It is the same for a house a clean house will absolutely bring in higher offers than a dirty home.
- Keep all lawn equipment and personal items hidden from view – No lawnmowers, bikes, weed wackers, buckets, shovels, rakes etc in visible site.
- Clean out gutters – Clogged gutters cause damage and look terrible to an observant buyer
- Keep all bushes/trees trimmed and properly groomed – Make sure none of them are growing over or into your home
- Keep your yard completely manicured, fix any bare patches on your lawn – There are miracle grass growers you can buy cheap at your local hardware store to fix this in a timely manner.
- Remove all weeds or vegetation growing around walkways and driveways – Items growing through your walkways and driveway show severe lack of attention and give an impression of neglect. What is the last thing you want buyer’s to feel about a home they want to own?
- Wash all windows inside and out – This is another attention to detail that is important.
- Paint Front door and/or trim that needs it with a fresh coat of outdoor paint – Paint is cheap and an easy job to complete while the return on investment is tenfold for this quick fix.
- Buy a new attractive mailbox – This is simple and can really help buyer’s first impression especially if you have a fifteen year old mailbox that has been subject to the elements.
- Keep trash cans, recycle bins out of view – No one wants to stare at trash, if that was the case then buyers would be dying to own a home next to a dump.
- Add a new welcome home mat if you don’t already have one – Wouldn’t Making a buyer feel like he is home exactly what you want to induce a top dollar offer.
- Add plants or flowers next to or close to the front door – This gives your buyers a wonderful last impression of your exterior. They will be in a positive frame of mind as they enter and soon make an offer on your home.
None of these items cost much if anything but will absolutely get buyers in the door and higher offers. So good luck hope you enjoyed this list.