Archive for November, 2007

by Joe Polish
Advertising is one of those crafts that every business owner has done, and more often than not has done it unsuccessfully.
I have seen thousands of ads from clients insisting that they have a “great” piece for their company, something they may have spent thousands of dollars on to have created, yet when I […]

by Virden J. Thornton
Unfortunately, many sales and service industry professionals gain an intellectual awareness of the methods of selling from the sales training they receive, yet fail to improve their bottom line sales results by systematically using the concepts in their daily transactions.
There are a number of methods you can use to move beyond an […]

by Wendy Weiss, The Queen of Cold Calling
1 Repeating the same action over and over and expecting different results

The biggest enemy to sales is the status quo. When sales trainers say that phrase, we are usually referring to prospects. The idea is that most people find it to be very difficult to let go of […]

by Alan Rigg
The most common question I hear concerning sales compensation goes something like this: “What commission percentage should I pay for _____________?” I’m sorry, but there is just isn’t a “standard” answer to this question! Why? Because there are a huge number of variables that impact commission percentage calculations. Here are just some of […]