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The Sales Shortcut Mentality - Is that You?

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Have you ever viewed those headlines in emails or advertisements announcing this or that “shortcut” to improved results be it in sales, leadership, business operations, etc.? Good to great salespeople use a variety of tools to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

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Want to Increase Sales? Just Answer Your Phone!

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One would think if they placed a paid advertisement for sales prospecting, they would answer their phones. Technology in this case is a sales prospecting tool and only a tool. How SMBs use that tool is up to them. The misuse of that tool or tools in this case a phone, voice mail or text appears to be rampant.

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Community Marketing Catapults Word of Mouth

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The reason is simple people believe other people usually family or friends before any advertising or other marketing activities no matter how good those actions are. Yet today mostly because of social media, we now see collective word of mouth advertising or what is called community marketing. The Power of Community Marketing.

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Leadership Begins First and Foremost within Each of Us

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Just listen to all the advertisements on television about this or that drug to cure this or that alignment. Even its Annual Goal Planning tool is based upon internal-self leadership. Look around at all the overweight people. This is an issue of internal self-leadership. There was and still is: Executive. Management. Customers Service.

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Time to Fall Clean Your Marketing Toolbox

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Upon opening your toolbox, you will have a removable upper tray that contains your lightweight marketing tools. Down below is a larger compartment to hold those heavier tools. All of your tools have a cost. The heavier tools at the bottom of your toolbox have a lot of variety. Finally, there is that all important website.

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60,000 Unique Visitors Sales Pitch Means Nothing Part 3

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Newspapers and billboard companies for years have focused on subscribers and drivers to sell advertising. There is no guarantee (unless a direct mail piece or an 800 number have been included) those subscribers or drivers actually saw your potentially expensive advertisement. These are only impressions. Sites from a first page search.

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How to Increase Sales Remember Local Marketing Is Vocal Marketing

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Years ago, the first how to increase sales marketing action a small business took was to take out a paid local advertisement in the Yellow Pages because local customers used their fingers to walk through those hundreds of yellow pages. The goal of how to increase sales is suddenly far more simple than it was.

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