Smooth Sale

JUNE 24, 2023

Photo by ColiN00B Attract the Right Job Or Clientele : Tech Startup Ideas to Kickstart Your Entrepreneurship Emma Joyce provides our guest blog, Tech startup ideas to kickstart your entrepreneurship. As an entrepreneur, you can launch a tech venture to offer small businesses simple, cost-effective cybersecurity solutions.

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Sales 2.0

OCTOBER 11, 2019

That is where those sales people spent all their time and energy (at least if they were good.) It turns out a lot of entrepreneurs and small business owners share these experiences. Most small business owners I know are pretty good once they are in a meeting with the appropriate buyer.

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The Sales Hunter

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Worse, they often present only superficial solutions to deeper problems and divert time and energy away from real solutions. The result is often more pressure, more confusion, and more energy expended in the wrong areas. Blog , Sales Motivation , Sales Training. Mark Hunter is… Blogs We Follow. FREE Resources.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 17, 2024

No one can stop you from being the sole person responsible for your business, but having as much clarity as possible is critical. As such, our collaborative blog offers a few elements to remember about being the sole manager and accepting full responsibility for business success.

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Smooth Sale

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Alicia Ramsdell, CCSP, GCDF, MST, CEO of Mindful Career Path, provides our guest blog asking, ‘Do you have the key to unlock success and achieve your vision?’ It will free up your time and energy to concentrate on what truly matters. Alicia’s Mindful Approach Website conveys ‘Where mindfulness meets your career.

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Smooth Sale

JUNE 22, 2023

Our collaborative blog offers unique investment opportunities to consider, speak with an advisor, and thoroughly research on your own for you to select wisely in 2023. __ Unique Investment Opportunities Image Source Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency is a growing trend in investment types. Solar energy. Hydro energy. Nuclear energy.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 4, 2023

The benefits of following eco-friendly best practices are many for individuals, businesses of all types, the world population, and our planet. Our collaborative blog provides five eco-friendly best practices for businesses worthy of our attention. __ Eco-Friendly Best Practices for Businesses Image Credit: AS_PHOTOGRAPHICS from Pixabay.

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No More Cold Calling

AUGUST 15, 2013

Sales leaders must harness the energy of their team members—who have unique personalities and don’t like to be micro-managed. That’s why I’m dedicating my first blog post each month to sales management—with insights and strategies to help leaders and their teams succeed in our exciting, rewarding profession. Did You Know??.

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SalesProInsider

APRIL 10, 2019

After hundreds of conversations with small business owners over the past few years about lead gen and lead conversion, I landed on an explanation for lead generation that makes sense to those who aren’t career sales professionals or marketers. It’s a challenging, confusing, and expensive endeavor for many small businesses.

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Increase Sales

MARCH 3, 2014

Business to Business Networking. Mid-size to small businesses lack the resources of time, money, energy and emotions found within much larger organizations. When small businesses learn how to unlock the power of three respective to their marketing, they will be surprised by the results. Social Media.

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The better approach is to ensure you are financially ready to handle the costs once your business actively prepares for clientele. Accordingly, our collaborative blog suggests three services to consider for your new startup. You will have to decide where to spend your time, energy, and money to invest wisely in your new startup.

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Increase Sales

MARCH 31, 2014

So you have your marketing calendar in place, you are blogging regularly, sharing the social media posts of others and doing your follow up with all those new sales leads. And worse yet this new social media opportunity is geared to your business to business (B2B) target market and ideal customer profile. Share on Facebook.

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Ideal Customer Profile Outsourcing Services Social Media Inbound 112

Increase Sales

AUGUST 29, 2012

Sure those local small businesses directly associated with any marketing effort receive the biggest attention or have the largest river, but with social media that attention is diverted into a plethora of different streams (think tributaries) that touch many otherwise untouched, unnoticed small businesses.

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Sales and Marketing Management

JULY 5, 2018

1 rule in business (B2B and B2C) is to know your customer. To save you time, energy and budget, you should ensure that you know exactly what type of professionals you’ll approach in the future. Optimize your CTAs – According to SmallBizTrends , 70 percent of small businesses don’t leverage CTAs on their online platforms.

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A Sales Guy

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I used Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, this blog, and LinkedIn as my primary social channels. I use each differently for different reasons, but when it comes to business, I mean straight business, nothing is performing like LinkedIn. Have some energy, I know this may be hard for some folks.

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Increase Sales

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Being an ardent believer of preparation for business and life, a recent post about Keurig’s belief about good marketing and preparation caught my eye. What happens for many small businesses is they lack a strategic plan and consequently fall into reactive behaviors, putting out fires. Share on Facebook.

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Smooth Sale

MARCH 14, 2023

Photo by Geralt via Pixabay Attract the Right Job Or Clientele: The Easiest Ways to Increase Your Profits Now As a business owner, increasing earnings is always on your mind. Look for ways to cut costs, such as reducing energy usage, negotiating lower rent or supplier costs, or outsourcing specific tasks to reduce labor costs.

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Increase Sales

AUGUST 19, 2011

Have you ever heard any of the following from small business owners to sales people who wish to increase sales: I’m going to try to do this or that fill in whatever? Almost every week I speak with or hear another entrepreneur enter the crazy busy small business owners marketplace. Credit www.sxc.hu.

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 13, 2015

Get Proactive Sales leadership expert Kevin Davis puts this issue into perspective in his blog post, “ 5 Things Proactive Sales Managers Do Differently.” Then you’ll have the time and energy to help them learn new skills , grow professionally, and think “big picture” about increasing sales pipelines.

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No More Cold Calling

JULY 2, 2015

Your resources (and energy) will be drained. Worst of all, PITA clients waste time, energy, and creativity that would be better spent serving your Ideal Clients —those you enjoy working with and who give you what you need to help them grow their businesses. Want to weed out the clients who are draining resources and energy?

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Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

This blog comes on the heels of a perplexing – and poorly conceived – response to an offer I’d recently made to a small business owner who also happened to be a personal friend. She was appreciative and effusive in her enthusiasm and promised that she’d put all of her energy into the questionnaire on her upcoming days off.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 28, 2012

Maybe part of the reason why the elephant gun to kill a fly sales training coaching still continues is because most of it (probably over 80% in my opinion) has evolved from delivering services to Fortune 500 to 1000 businesses that can pay the arm and the leg for these learning engagements. “ Another colleague, S.

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Smooth Sale

APRIL 11, 2022

Note: Our Collaborative Blog offers insights on ‘The Four Professional Services Every Business Needs for Success.’. No question starting and running a business is hard work. This blog post will discuss four professional services every business needs for success. Six Ways To Speed Up Your Business’ Growth.

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Increase Sales

MAY 2, 2016

One of my colleagues, Jim Keenan, wrote a rather descriptive blog about letting go of what others think. However his message about letting go extends into letting go of business growth as well. Today during a small business masterminding and networking group I was reminded of his recent post.

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Ideal Customer Profile Energy Twitter Small Business 70

Increase Sales

AUGUST 21, 2014

Forward thinking leaders must learn how to communicate succinctly as in 140 characters in Twitter to emails to sharing organizational initiatives through the company’s newsletter or blog. Business leaders will need to be able to communicate even more frequently through the written word than ever before. Share on Facebook.

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Increase Sales

MAY 26, 2015

Marketing can become quite routine, almost boring especially for small business owners. Think how you can infuse some of that energy into your own marketing actions. Soon you feel you are tired and marketing becomes difficult. Listen and then record your thoughts using your smart phone (hands free of course). Attend a webinar.

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No More Cold Calling

MARCH 1, 2012

Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project, wrote a great blog in the Harvard Business Review’s HBR Blog Network: Four Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By. ” Read the rest of the Tony Schwartz’s blog post here. Are you a multitasking culprit? . The first myth is my favorite.

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Grant Cardone

MAY 3, 2019

This is the step where all your efforts and energy are put into resisting the change that has just happened. All your energy and effort is spent on finding someone to assign blame as the reason for the current situation. This is the business owner who will no longer advertise. Step 2: Getting Over Anger and Blame. Be Great, GC.

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Increase Sales

JUNE 13, 2012

Many articles, blog posting and research papers have been devoted to ensuring why sales training is both efficient (doing things right) and effective (doing the right thing). So not to lose the business, I will give them sales training that I know will not truly fix the problem. After all, if I do not do it, my competitors will.”

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CloserIQ

APRIL 30, 2019

Marketing and sales teams dedicate a considerable amount of time and energy into developing outreach campaigns. Your prospect is a small business owner struggling to keep up with everyday operations and concerned about the level of support, she will be receiving. . Interested in contributing to the CloserIQ blog?

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Smooth Sale

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Attract The Right Job Or Clientele: Note: Ivan Serrano provides today’s guest Blog, ‘Improve Your e-Learning Sessions with These Strategies.’ Ivan Serrano mainly focuses on social media, small business, and finance. Related Blog Stories: Are You Happy with Current Results?

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No More Cold Calling

JANUARY 22, 2015

Don’t let the corporate world gobble up all your energy and dull your creativity. Portions of this post originally appeared on the LinkedIn Sales Solutions blog. Associations Enterprise Sales Management Salespeople Small Business' Yours are just as valid as the next person’s. Trust your intuition.

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InsideSales.com

JUNE 15, 2020

Moving prospects through the sales funnel or sales cycle ultimately generates revenue for the business. Prospecting takes much time and energy, but it is essential to get it right to ensure potential customers are identified, but which suits the product or service on offer. Why is Prospecting Important? Do they fit our buyer persona?

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Ideal Customer Profile Prospecting Lead Rank Lead Scoring 63

Hyper-Connected Selling

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

For most solopreneurs (and small business owners in general), “networking” falls in the marketing column. But if you just focus on getting more customers from your networking, you miss out on the most powerful connections that can support your business: your fellow solopreneurs. Who Should You Network With?

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Smooth Sale

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The dilemma raises our Blog question, Are you personality inclusive? People pay more attention to this group because of the energy and fun involvement. However, for business, it is a more one-sided arrangement that rarely takes into account the insights of others. The Creative. Then there is the creative personality.

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Selling Energy

MAY 22, 2018

Even if you’re a small business, an investment in a web presence goes a long way. Subscribe to the Selling Energy Blog ! This is the same as putting a brochure in somebody’s hands, only better, since many people can be invited to share in the visual display regardless of where they are in space.

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Distribution Energy Small Business Small Business 40

Increase Sales

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Our brains are control centers with a designed purpose to function using the least amount of energy. That stored energy is for those fight or flight moments still embedded into our DNA. Now some may feel this talk of soul is the last a blog about leadership, small business and sales should be addressing.

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