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		<title>3 Tips to Re-Envision Your Sales Career in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Imagine yourself wearing old, dirty, cracked glasses with an outdated prescription.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&#8217;s because you&#8217;ve worn them for so long that you don&#8217;t even realize anything is amiss. This is the predicament for many traditional sales [...]]]></description>
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<p>A New Year calls for a new perspective.</p>
<p>Imagine yourself wearing old, dirty, cracked glasses with an outdated prescription. You may think you see the world fine, but that&#8217;s because you&#8217;ve worn them for so long that you don&#8217;t even realize anything is amiss.</p>
<p>This is the predicament for many traditional sales professionals. From real estate and mortgage to insurance and technology, there&#8217;s been a gradual and consistent decline in commissions, renewals, bonuses and perks.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s like squinting a little more each day without realizing you&#8217;re almost blind.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>1. Survey your field</strong>.</p>
<p>With your shiny, new glasses on, take a good, hard look at your sales industry. While it&#8217;s important to stay optimistic (sales folks can be optimistic to a fault), it&#8217;s also vital to be realistic.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;ve been in health insurance sales for ten years. It&#8217;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?</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>These questions aren&#8217;t meant to be doom and gloom, but if the environment around you is changing and you can&#8217;t adapt, then it might be time to enhance your product/service offerings or move to a more viable sales field.</p>
<p><strong>2. Appraise greener pastures</strong>.</p>
<p>Remember Richard Dreyfuss&#8217; character in the 80s movie Down and Out in Beverly Hills? He played a millionaire who had made his fortune in&#8230; hangers. The seemingly bland, insignificant business of making and selling hangers brought him and his family great wealth and comfort.</p>
<p>This is not to suggest that you go out and start selling hangers. The point is that, more often than not, it&#8217;s the products and services that we take for granted that offer the most opportunity.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>If you decide that it&#8217;s time to strengthen your sales portfolio &#8211; or even reinvent your sales career entirely &#8211; consider looking for products and services that provide specific, nondescript solutions to small and mid-sized businesses.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>3. Look for structure and support</strong>.</p>
<p>As most sales professionals know, there are ample ups and downs in sales. And when you&#8217;re reinventing yourself in your sales career, sometimes it can seem like your &#8220;downs&#8221; are more prevalent than your &#8220;ups.&#8221; Especially in the beginning.</p>
<p>This is why it&#8217;s pivotal to have a strong support team in place that can help guide and encourage you every step of the way.</p>
<p>This does not mean a support team that&#8217;s cheering from the sidelines but doesn&#8217;t have skin in the game. The best way to reinvent yourself in your sales career is for your support team to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Be actively and successfully selling the product or service you&#8217;re looking to sell;</li>
<li>Have an established track record selling the product or service and training others to do the same;</li>
<li>Deliver training that is comprehensive, current and consistent so you learn how to be successful selling that product or service.</li>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>To avoid this frustration, carefully evaluate support systems for how they walk the talk.</p>
<p><strong>Auld Lang Syne</strong> (the good old times)</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, when they stumble and fall, it takes them longer to recover.</p>
<p>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&#8217;t one you need-or should-navigate alone. If you have an accurate roadmap, it&#8217;s one that will bring you more clarity and confidence with each step.</p>
<p>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?</p>
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<p>Alex Gardner is National Marketing Director at <a href="http://unitedsalespros.com/" target="_new">http://UnitedSalesPros.com</a> where he&#8217;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 <a href="http://unitedsalespros.com/" target="_new">http://UnitedSalesPros.com</a>, offer your own commentary and insights, and to suggest topics you&#8217;d like to see addressed related to commission-based sales.</p>
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		<title>Top 10 Tips on How to Achieve Sales Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Romana Stratton 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, [...]]]></description>
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<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Set Objectives</strong></p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Set some targets that are achievable &#8211; 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&#8217;t achieve them rather than how you can. However at the same time you should aim to stretch yourself to avoid complacency.</p>
<p><strong>Do Research</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Be Prepared</strong></p>
<p>Be prepared to offer alternatives to a customer &#8211; don&#8217;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&#8217;t know until you have the conversation.</p>
<p><strong>Build Rapport</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Being empathetic is one of the strongest sales skills you can have. If you have the ability to see from the customer&#8217;s perspective you will be better able to understand their needs and respond appropriately.</p>
<p><strong>Ask Effective Questions</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Listen</strong></p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t listen effectively, then it is highly likely you may miss many valuable cues that the customer provides. Don&#8217;t listen with half an ear and be trying to formulate your next question or response. Listen first &#8211; then respond. Don&#8217;t rush the process and don&#8217;t be aggressive.</p>
<p><strong>Explain the benefits</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Meet objections</strong></p>
<p>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&#8217;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&#8217;t want what you are offering.</p>
<p>Sometimes you have to make a judgment call to stop wasting your time and the customer&#8217;s time if they have objections you just can&#8217;t counter. Don&#8217;t take it personally. Move on to the next customer and invest your time more productively.</p>
<p><strong>Close the sale</strong></p>
<p>Watch for buying signals and simply ask for the order! And a word of advice for the over exuberant sales person &#8211; quit while you are ahead &#8211; if you have the order &#8211; 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!</p>
<p><strong>Follow Up</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <strong><a href="http://www.salesoutsourcing.org/" target="_blank">sales outsourcing</a></strong> 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.</p>
<p>Even though it looks easy to have <strong><a href="http://www.salesoutsourcing.org/" target="_blank">sales team outsourcing</a></strong> 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.</p>
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		<title>Stop Hiding from Your Buyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michael Dalton Johnson Sounds silly doesn&#8217;t it? Who would hide from their buyers? Using voice mail and the Internet, many organizations are doing just that. &#8220;Your call is very important to us, but not important enough to actually answer the phone.&#8221; It started when some accountant figured out if a business had a machine [...]]]></description>
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<p>Sounds silly doesn&#8217;t it? Who would hide from their buyers?</p>
<p>Using voice mail and the Internet, many organizations are doing just that.</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Your call is very important to us, but not important enough to actually answer the phone.&#8221;<br />
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It started when some accountant figured out if a business had a machine  answer the phone they wouldn&#8217;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,  &#8220;externalize costs&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>To protect the guilty I&#8217;m offering a slightly  fictionalized account of a call I recently made. All details except the  names of the companies are true. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve had similar  experiences. Here&#8217;s how my call went:</p>
<p>Brringg, brringg! &#8220;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&#8217;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&#8230;&#8221; Great, I want sales so I press 4. Brringg, brringg! &#8220;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&#8230;&#8221; I don&#8217;t leave a message and hang up.</p>
<p>The next company I call actually answers their phone! A pleasant  professional voice says,&#8221; American Industrial Widgets, how may I direct  your call?&#8221; &#8220;Sales please.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ll connect you now.&#8221; &#8220;Sales, Mike Jones,  how can I help you?&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>Millions are spent on advertising  and marketing yet some companies don&#8217;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&#8217;t help but wonder if the bean counters figured lost  sales into the equation before celebrating the savings from not  answering the phone.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Come on in, it&#8217;s a jungle in here!&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>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 &#8220;experts&#8217;  offer to make you a millionaire overnight. Others dangle a variety of  &#8220;too good to be true&#8221; rip-offs designed to separate you from your hard  earned cash. You&#8217;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.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s no wonder buyers are wary.</p>
<p>Unless  you are in a league with Macy&#8217;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 &#8220;credibility enhancers&#8221; on your  web site, a simple thing like including your street address and phone  number really increases buyer confidence.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;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?</p>
<p>I also don&#8217;t  want to leave a voice message and wait for a return call when you get  around to it. I am the buyer. It&#8217;s my agenda, not yours. Want my  business? Tell me who you are and talk to me!</p>
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		<title>Selling used car is unsurpassed option</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 01:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>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&#8217;t want to take  advantage of or pass up a justifiable buyer.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Independent dealers and other franchises under range their customer&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;t just clean it. You need  to give it a good shine job too. If you don&#8217;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&#8217;t give it a good cleaning.</p>
<p>By this method you can sell your car and gain more profit.</p>
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		<title>What A Positive Attitude In Sales Can Teach Us!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Winston Jenkins Robert Kiyosaki is a millionaire investor and author of the famous &#8220;Rich Dad Poor Dad&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>Robert Kiyosaki is a millionaire investor and author of the famous  &#8220;Rich Dad Poor Dad&#8221; 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.</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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:</p>
<p>&#8220;Some Will, Some Wont, So What, Someone&#8217;s Waiting&#8221;</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>It is  precisely for this reason that a sales career is recommended. The  changes that one&#8217;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.</p>
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		<title>Sell With Soul!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 12:04:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Winston Jenkins It is not your customer&#8217;s job to remember you. It is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>It is not your customer&#8217;s job to remember you.</p>
<p>It is your obligation and responsibility</p>
<p>to make sure they don&#8217;t have the chance to forget you.</p>
<p>~ Patricia Fripp</p>
<p>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&#8217;s first try to understand the customer.</p>
<p>How People Think They Buy</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>How They Actually Buy</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The Success Mantra: Selling With Soul</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The key to success is to try not be like the hard  selling car salesman. Be subtle and persuade. Pushing only drives  customer away.</p>
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		<title>Top 6 Essential Parts of a Retail Business Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
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<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>1. Executive Summary<br />
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&#8217;s attention so that he/she will be compelled to read  on.</p>
<p>2. Business Analysis<br />
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.</p>
<p>3. Marketing Strategy<br />
The  Marketing Strategy section of your business plan should explain how  your retail business will penetrate your target market. Detail the  company&#8217;s desired image and branding strategy. Give an overview of the  company&#8217;s pricing strategies, current and potential marketing  partnerships and provide documented research to back your plan in this  part.</p>
<p>4. Products and Services<br />
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.</p>
<p>5. Management Plan<br />
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.</p>
<p>6. Financial Plan<br />
Probably one of the more  difficult parts of the entire business plan, the Financial Plan section  will involve the company&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Once you&#8217;re done writing your business  plan, go over through it a couple more times to make sure that you&#8217;ve  included every important detail in your business.</p>
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		<title>Successful Garage Sale Promotion Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Melissa Bennett If you&#8217;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&#8217;ve just wasted a ton of time &#8211; no to mention having to put all the stuff you hoped to sell back [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you&#8217;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&#8217;ve just wasted a ton of time &#8211; no to mention having to put all  the stuff you hoped to sell back in your house. And it&#8217;s not just a  matter of telling some friends and hoping that the word will just  somehow get out. It won&#8217;t. Sure, some folks go looking for garage sales,  but you also need to take action to be sure they find you.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Here are some great hints to help you promote your garage sales.</p>
<p>Tip #1 &#8211; Think About Advertising in Your Newspaper</p>
<p>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&#8217;ll be able to  benefit from the considerable reach that paper has, too. Really do check  this one out.</p>
<p>Tip #2 &#8211; Place Fliers Around the Area a Few Days Ahead of Time</p>
<p>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&#8217;re able to plan to show up on  the day you&#8217;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.</p>
<p>Tip #3 &#8211; Set Up Big Signs on your Big Day</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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		<title>Top 12 Tips to Improve Curb Appeal on a Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Chuck Barnes Once a buyer makes an impression of a property it because difficult to change. In today&#8217;s marketplace buyers so often drive by properties before they request showings or ask their buyer&#8217;s agent to set up a showing. Can you imagine having the single most beautiful home in your town on the interior [...]]]></description>
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<p>Once a buyer makes an impression of a property it because difficult  to change. In today&#8217;s marketplace buyers so often drive by properties  before they request showings or ask their buyer&#8217;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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
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<li><strong>Power washing the siding is a must</strong> &#8211; 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.</li>
<li><strong>Keep all lawn equipment and personal items hidden from view</strong> &#8211; No lawnmowers, bikes, weed wackers, buckets, shovels, rakes etc in visible site.</li>
<li><strong>Clean out gutters</strong> &#8211; Clogged gutters cause damage and look terrible to an observant buyer</li>
<li><strong>Keep all bushes/trees trimmed and properly groomed</strong> &#8211; Make sure none of them are growing over or into your home</li>
<li><strong>Keep your yard completely manicured, fix any bare patches on your lawn</strong> &#8211; There are miracle grass growers you can buy cheap at your local hardware store to fix this in a timely manner.</li>
<li><strong>Remove all weeds or vegetation growing around walkways and driveways</strong> &#8211; 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&#8217;s to feel about a home they want to own?</li>
<li><strong>Wash all windows inside and out</strong> &#8211; This is another attention to detail that is important.</li>
<li><strong>Paint Front door and/or trim that needs it with a fresh coat of outdoor</strong> paint &#8211; Paint is cheap and an easy job to complete while the return on investment is tenfold for this quick fix.</li>
<li><strong>Buy a new attractive mailbox</strong> &#8211; This is simple and  can really help buyer&#8217;s first impression especially if you have a  fifteen year old mailbox that has been subject to the elements.</li>
<li><strong>Keep trash cans, recycle bins out of view &#8211; </strong>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.</li>
<li><strong>Add a new welcome home mat if you don&#8217;t already have one &#8211; </strong>Wouldn&#8217;t Making a buyer feel like he is home exactly what you want to induce a top dollar offer.</li>
<li><strong>Add plants or flowers next to or close to the front door</strong> &#8211; 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.</li>
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<p>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.</p>
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