Sales these days have really come down to helping people, and the more our economy shifts to a service-based economy, the more important it is to understand this truth.
Want to help more people and make more sales?
While teaching sales strategies to two different clients yesterday and today, both said to me, “Wow.. I need to unlearn [...]

Last Week’s Digest of Small Biz “Tip of the Day” from http://facebook.com/GrowYourBiz
Feel free to comment with your thoughts, experiences, and share your insights with the other members. The more you share and post, the more exposure you get for your business…
* FRIDAY Tip of the Day: Prioritizing and efficiency -> When making your To-Do list [...]

The other day someone asked me what the goal of a sales call should be. And it got me thinking about baseball.
Even if you’re not a baseball fan, stick with me here. I’m talking about how to implement your sales game plan to gear up for a long, successful season.
Actually, I’m more of a football [...]

This question was posed to a sales executive group. Here is my answer:
Sales skills – relationship building, problem solving and service skills – outweigh product knowledge importance.
In short order, your task list to close a sale is:

Get buyer attention
Tailor and deliver an enticing marketing message
Build the relationship, as well as your credibility, trustworthiness and likeability
Coach the sale through [...]

Every small business owner asks themselves this question - usually more often that not.
I’m happy to say that recently a number of past clients have contacted and hired me again to help them with this very question, to get down pat the skills, strategies, motivations and action plans needed to make it happen. That’s always a wonderful [...]

 
Does this invitation sound familiar?

“Hi Jason,
I’d like to get together for lunch or a cup of coffee. I had some thoughts that I wanted to share with you. If you have time in the next week let me know. Thanks talk with you soon.”
 
Sometimes I get quite a few invitations to meet for lunch or coffee [...]

Q: How can business coaching really help me explode my business? What are the tangible, measurable results? I want to know how this is a great investment of my time and money.
A: That’s an awesome and very valid question. I always look at any business opportunity or investment as what’s going to be the bottom-line [...]

With so many people looking for work right now, the art of the job interview is as important as ever.  And this is true for both the job candidate as well as the hiring manager. 
Competition for jobs is so fierce, and hiring the wrong person can waste time, money, energy, productivity, and cause a lot [...]

Very interesting article. I don’t know if I buy every point, but there are some great nuggets here.  I love the quote “Burning people out is not a survival strategy.”
So what does this all mean?
Even though this article is aimed at the corporate world, there are obviously huge implications for the small business and entrepreneurial folks.  [...]

Very interesting article. I don’t know if I buy every point, but there are some great nuggets here.  I love the quote “Burning people out is not a survival strategy.”
So what does this all mean?
Even though this article is aimed at the corporate world, there are obviously huge implications for the small business and entrepreneurial folks.  [...]