June 2009 Articles

Double Your Sales

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Two years ago, my firm suffered from split business disorder and as the owner, so did I. Offering marketing services for small business owners, we also offered team building and training services to Fortune 500 firms.

Neither segment was large enough to stand alone, so I spent my time split between both. When someone asked me what I did, I was never quite sure how to respond and often said too much. Networking associates overloaded with T.M.I. (Too Much Information) rarely had a good referral for me. How could they? If I didn’t know what I did or who I wanted to meet, it was unrealistic to expect others to be able to help me. A drastic change was required!

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Underestimating the Importance of Powerful Goals

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

You are a school teacher and during lunch one day you discover that someone you love (son, daughter, mother, father, best friend, etc.) has just been diagnosed with a rare disease and given less than 6 months to live.

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Doing Business on Your Terms

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

By Scott Manning – Manning Methods, LLC – Doing business on your terms relies upon leveraging your sales process to prepare people to buy.  Let me ask you, do you remember the purpose of business?  To over-service its clients, right?  Great, and what do we ask in exchange? Premium prices, right?  Great!  So when is a business being a business, or generating profits? When it is SELLING, or better said transacting money; so the point here is that “maximizing time” means always being in a SELLING position, doing something that MAKES MONEY. Businesses that invariable struggle year after year are those that don’t do-Daily–enough activities that result in MONEY transacting – they don’t use their time to make money.

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How to help your business succeed!!

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

By Tim Garrison – When was the last time you had a surprise with a cash balance, cash availability receivables, inventory, a job and the list just keeps going.   Did you go into fire fighting mode to put the fire out only to get swamped with the next problem?

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