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Adwords Miracle Reviews – a down to Earth Evaluation

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

This type of marketing is similar to an auction house. Your web site features assorted good and services in return, you receive a percentage from each sale. There is less work involved, very low overheads, it works whilst you sleep, and it’s simple to master. To start with, you have to make a choice as to precisely which area best suits your interests. To achieve this, determine what a particular set of web users are expecting, and what solutions will help them. One of the better means to find this easily is to look for specific long tail keywords; broadly speaking customers look for these less, yet more of these end up in a sale. These crucial keywords can be rooted out by using programs such as Micro Niche Finder. Data collected by Micro Niche Finder or other programs and services makes associated keywords in a list format allowing you to get a high placing in an internet search and bring in a high number of hits. Micro Niche Finder will in addition let you know the exact number of searches, exactly how many different websites use those keywords, and how strong those sites are. Finally, the info returned can identify appropriate domains, assist you in putting together your internet site, and also find the best merchandise for you to sell. Putting together a website is next on the list; yet you still have a couple of crucial tasks to complete. Having the top placing on web based search engines involves the fine tuning of your website. Products like SEO Elite will make this easier. This application analyzes competitor’s sites and can offer you suggestions on exactly what you should do to have top spot in the search engine listings. With SEO Elite the information provided by the software advises you on links, the most profitable keywords, and even an extensive listing of article submission web sites to use. In Brief, the results produced are the same kind of advice you might receive from an experienced SEO specialist.

When you have determined which target market you’d like to sell in, have your product advertisements, and your website is completed, all you need to do is get your internet site up in the search results. The profits will roll in on weekly basis and you will wonder why you ever doubted that this style of marketing would be a success for you!

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Execs’ Top Priorities This Year: Acquiring & Retaining Customers

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Accenture recently published the results of their global study of Executive Priorities for 2004. Selling – acquiring new customers – is Priority 1, and Selling – Retaining Customers – is Priority #4. Selling is clearly a major concern among company executives.

Acquiring and retaining customers is usually a major priority – that isn’t news. Top salespeople are in great demand – that isn’t news, either. What would qualify as real news? If more CEO’s succeeded in developing a highly competent sales force.

Most CEO’s have no idea what it takes to sell in today’s marketplaces, and their Sales Managers only think they know. Most sales managers have been placing their hopes in getting salespeople to work “smarter and harder.” They’ve been hoping that streamlining sales procedures will produce the results they need – more sales. Has it worked? No. Will it ever work? No.

As long as sales managers stay grounded in the past, new Contact Management systems and Customer Relationship Management systems will merely automate obsolete selling practices. Huge cultural and economic changes over the past ten years have forced almost every business function to adapt and innovate. But not sales; most sales organizations are still being managed as if it’s still 1990.

Most sales managers and their salespeople are stuck in the old “Needs Selling” paradigm. However, their prospects and customers are now in the “Wants Selling” paradigm. Sales managers and their salespeople need to substantially change the way they think and operate, if they’re going to span the differences between the Old and New Sales Paradigms.

The traditional Needs Selling paradigm is briefly:

Find prospects who are interested in your products and services. Do whatever it takes to get an appointment. Then, do whatever it takes to get them to buy from your company. Let the service department handle customer satisfaction.

The new Wants Selling paradigm is briefly:

Only make appointments with prospects when they are ready to buy your products and services. Treat your customers with respect, and insist they do the same. Make mutual agreements and mutual commitments with your prospects and customers, honor those agreements and commitments, and insist they do the same. Base your business relationships on mutual trust and respect, and use that as the foundation for cross-selling throughout the company. Take personal responsibility for customer satisfaction and get plenty of referral business.

There is a world of difference between the Traditional and New Selling paradigms. Sales forces must learn new selling strategies and practices. Only then will company executives succeed in fulfilling their top goals – to acquire new customers and to retain their current customers.

©Jacques Werth, High Probability® Selling – All rights reserved.

Jacques Werth, author of “High Probability Selling,” is an internationally respected Sales Trainer and Sales Consultant. HPS graduates are excelling as Top Producers in over 70 industries. Visit http://www.highprobsell.com to read more articles, preview the book, and learn more about High Probability Selling.

Bigger Voices Sell Better!

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I was never really fond of my sales manager when he strode into the call center and bellowed: “It sounds dead in here. Raise your voices!”

Was he crazy?

Here I was, having another intimate chat with a prospect about Time-Life’s Nature Library and suddenly, I sounded like I was calling from a zoo!

Later, after becoming the top seller and then a sales manager in my own right, I came to appreciate the validity of his rude advice:

Bigger voices sell better.

Period.

This may seem counterintuitive to you, as it did to me, long ago, but it’s actually true.

Here are three reasons you want to raise the volume, whether you are a salesperson or a manager:

(1) Louder voices sound more confident than whispery ones, and confidence is contagious. Prospects must believe in what you’re saying, and they defer to you more often when you sound big and extroverted.

(2) When you can hear other reps as they sell, it picks up your spirits, and you feel less alone and self-conscious. So, you enjoy yourself more, just as you do at a louder party.

(3) This works in a sales context in the same way that Dale Carnegie’s advice works in public speaking: Act enthusiastic, and you’ll be enthusiastic. In other words, your attitudes follow your behavior. If you can get yourself to sound confident and successful, you’ll become so.

I know, you may be thinking, “I don’t like that; I don’t want to sell that way!”

I can relate. If your want to argue with success, go ahead.

Just do it LOUDLY!

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of www.Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone® and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com

Salespeople: Fight Back Against Customer Brainwashing!

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

You’re doing a sales presentation, and suddenly you look across the table and see aliens from another galaxy.

They seal your lips, so none of your eloquence can escape, and through telepathy they say:

“Listen to us sales unit. Your product sucks; it’s no different than any other. In fact, you’re lucky we don’t kick your puny butt into another dimension. Lower your prices, now. Give us the deal we want, and we’ll let you live another day, so you can swindle some other unsuspecting fools. Probe over!”

You do what any poor sap would do: you cut your commissions, your profit margins, anything, just to emerge with a sale.

You sleep like a rock that evening, and by the morning, you’re feeling like your old self, again. But as you prepare to meet your first prospect of the day, you get queasy.

What’s wrong? Normally, you’re juiced, upbeat, happy, and willing to jump into the fray.

You enter the office, sit down, and the same aliens come in.

“Just tell us your price, we have no time for foolishness.”

“Well, sure, I’ll cover that in a minute,” you say, just as they taught you when you were a rookie, in training.

“That won’t do, earth scum! Give us your best price, now!”

“Okay, okay!” Then, you amaze yourself, offering yet another bare bones deal.

You walk away, convinced the aliens are right. Your product is the same as anybody’s.

Why are your list prices so high? Doesn’t management appreciate how competitive it is out there?

What you don’t know is you’ve been brainwashed, convinced that everything is a commodity, and the only differentiator is price. This is just what clever customers want you to believe, because if you buy this, you’ll buy anything.

They’ve transformed you from a seller into a buyer, by incessantly making you doubt, until the foundation of your confidence is completely chiseled away.

You must find a way to fight back against customer brainwashing. The best way is by using affirmations.

You have to psych yourself up with statements that say, “We offer unique value,” and “Even if our prices and products are the same, I’m different, and I’m worth more!”

Fight every disparaging comment and innuendo that you hear with a counter-statement. And never let an objection go by, unanswered.

A wise sales manager told me, early in my career:

“Gary, when you’re in front of a customer only two things can happen: You’ll sell them, or they’ll sell you!”

True, and after we leave an office where aliens are entrenched, we have to re-sell ourselves, or all is lost.

Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone® and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.

Sell Services Online

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Is it possible to take a normal offline service business like a legal practice, private medical practitioner or even a real estate business and make money with it from the Internet?

As someone who’s been doing this since 1996, I say the answer is a resounding “YES”.

If you are a business owner, or even an affiliate marketer, you know how hard it is to make a living online.

Many so-called Internet Marketing gurus will tell you that the only way to make money online is to create your own information products, hype them up with a completely fictitious sales letter and then sell via Clickbank, allowing an army of keen and eager affiliates to do your marketing for you.

Whilst that can and does work, there are other paths that are equally successful.

I know from experience, having made my living online by using my own web sites to promote other people’s businesses.

The business I chose were all service oriented. The reason for this is that a service business typically has a low overhead in order to provide the service.

I found that they were more willing to provide me with a larger share of the fees I was able to generate.

The key is to use sales language and “speak” to the businesses clients in language that they understand and respond to.

For example, there’s no point using a 5 page sales letter when you’re trying to sell the services of a conservative legal practice – it just won’t work.

The other key thing is to build the web site in a way that it looks to be providing objective advice.

People like objectivity when they are buying.

The sites I tend to concentrate on are business to business sites. I just don’t like selling to individuals, as they have less money to spend and are infinitely more fussy than a corporate buyer who typically just wants the facts.

My approach works and through various web sites, I have attracted the business of quite a few household name clients for my clients.

The great thing about the way I do business, is that I don’t necessarily have a client when I build my web sites.

Instead, I build a web site based on a certain topic and then quite literally build a business around it.

The sales copy doesn’t have to be blistering hot, it just has to be convincing and contain a strong call to action for the reader on the particular web page.

Make that call to action strong enough and the customers will come knocking on the door and there will be no need for cold-calling. The web site does the selling for you.

Of course, it’s not just down to the sales copy. There are a number of tools that can be used very effectively in order to make selling services online extremely easy.

For more details, please visit http://www.sales-letters.co.uk

David Carter is based in the UK and has been involved in selling services on the Internet since 1994. In 2002, he became a full time Internet Marketer with a special interest in domain names and now owns more than 1000 names, which he uses to drive traffic to his various sites. His main business site is www.hollywood-internet.com.

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Selling – Remember These Ten Rules and Succeed

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

There are thousands of books and seminars on how to succeed. What many don’t make explicit is the requirement to be a great salesperson – even if you’re selling an idea!

Here are the ten simple but powerful rules that will guide you in all your selling decisions.

* Helping. Get into the mindset of respecting and helping the customer. The hard sell today does not work.

* Knowledge. Know your product/service, customer and industry inside out – be able to answer almost any question.

* Benefits. Think of how each of the features of your product/service can benefit the customer and always mention that first – right at the beginning.

* Presentable. Be neat, presentable and clean and that includes smelling good too. Dress as the audience expects.

* Rehearse. Practice your presentation over and over gain. Use audio and video tape, do it in front of the mirror and ask friends and colleagues to offer suggestions. Do not underestimate this.

* The 70 – 30 rule. Listen more than you talk – ask questions – find out customers concerns so you can ease them away.

* Enthusiasm. Show enthusiasm, energy, friendliness and professionalism and show confidence in the product/service. Mention nothing negative – even if the weather is lousy.

* Easy. Make it easy to handle, try, test the goods or services and then make it so easy to buy.

* Boldness. Ask for the business.

* Friendly. People buy from people. Never argue or make the customer look silly. Here’s a list of some of the things that annoy your customers:

+ Spread himself out in my living room
+ Used the toilet and didn’t lift the lid
+ Had smelly breath/ body odour
+ ried to pressure me
+ Didn’t listen to me
+ When I said it wasn’t for me she insisted
+ Tried to convince me I was wrong
+ Talked down to me as if I was stupid or inferior
+ Hinted that I was stupid for not seeing the value of what he was offering me
+ Avoided answering my questions
+ Kept saying bad tings about other companies
+ Went over to my bookcase and took down a book and made some comment
+ Kept talking about his children
+ Didn’t have an order form needed to progress the sale
+ Was too smarmy – kept using my name all the time as a sales technique
+ Spoke too quickly and didn’t give me much time in the car – felt we had to hurry
+ Made me feel I was bothering him – that I was interrupting him

Of course you don’t do any of these!

ALL SUCCESS WITH YOUR SELLING!

Bill Robb - EzineArticles Expert Author

Bill is managing director of Brilliant Web Workshops and is committed to discovering, demystifying, distilling and disseminating practical knowledge to help people do even better.
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4 Reasons Why the Sale is Not Made

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

When sales are down, a salesperson must begin to take stock of why that is happening. Most sales people start by blaming the company’s policies. “If you’d only offer better specials,” or blame the economy, “If only customers had the money,” or they blame their boss, “If only I got a better schedule,” or they will blame whatever happens to come to mind that day. Never, do they take stock of their own selling
techniques.

There are four basic reasons why salespeople don’t make
a sale.

The customer doesn’t want/need your product or service.
Therefore they lack the motivation to make the purchase.

Many sales people ignore the fact they don’t want/need the
product and continue to attempt to make the sale.

In this case, the sales person doesn’t adequately qualify the
buyer. Not everyone you come into contact with will have a
need for what you are selling. But sales people are
conditioned to try to make a sale no matter what.

Asking good questions and listening carefully to the
answers will solve this problem quickly. That will free up the
sales person to move on to greener pastures.

The customer can’t buy. They don’t have the money.

This problem is similar to the previous reason why sales
aren’t made. The salesperson has not asked the
appropriate questions to qualify the buyer.

The buyer has the need, but they don’t have the money. You
can’t force someone to come up with money. If it is beyond
their budget, face it and try to work within their budget by
finding an alternative product or be honest with them about
what it will take to make the purchase. They will appreciate
your honesty.

The customer can’t buy. They are not the decision maker.

If you are dealing with someone who is not a decision
maker, it is because the sales person has not taken the
time to qualify the individual’s role in the purchase. You
need to get in front of the decision maker. In my experience,
no one can make the sale for you.

If you make the presentation to the un-qualified person in
the hopes that they will take the information to the decision
maker, more times than not, they will not be able to close
the sale for you.

The customer doesn’t understand the offering.

You haven’t made your offer clear. Or you haven’t educated
them about your product. Perhaps you’ve been selling
features instead of benefits to them and that makes them
unclear as to how they could use your product.

Or it is a technical product and they are a non-technical
individual. You have been speaking in tech-talk and they
don’t want to appear ignorant, so rather than asking for
clarification, they decide not to buy. After all, they don’t know
how it will benefit them.

As you can see, in each of the instances, it wasn’t outside
forces that inhibited the sale, it was the sales person.

To become a SuperStar Salesperson, you need to learn to
evaluate your role in each and every sale. For the most part,
you will find that your efforts can and should be improved.
The effort is well worth it.

Margo Chevers, author of the book STOP the BS (bad
service), has been providing sales and customer service
seminars and consulting to a diverse cross-section of
industries for the past 15 years. For information about
Margo Chevers’ speaking or training schedule call (800)
858-0797 or Margo@MargoChevers.com

Sales – Using the Law of Expectancy

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Studies in persuasion technology show that what you expect tends to be realized. I call this the Law of Expectation, which is also one of the tenants of sales.

As a sales professional, your expectations influence reality. I recently came across a movie called, “What the Bleep Do We Know?” It explains how our thoughts and intentions shape our reality. If you haven’t seen the movie, I urge you to do so. (You can go to http://www.whatthebleep.com/ to learn more.)

The movie explains that human behavior is directly related to how others expect us to perform. As an example, there was once a study in which first grade students were told that blue-eyed kids are smarter than brown-eyed kids. The blue-eyed children subsequently scored better on tests than their brown-eyed peers.

After several months they decided to bring the children together and tell them that what they’d told them before was wrong. This time, they said that all children are born with blue eyes and the more we learn the more our eyes turn brown, so brown-eyed children are smarter. Just as predicted, the blue-eyed children started to have trouble with their studies and the brown-eyed children improved.

So what might happen if you truly believe you’re a great salesperson? What if you were to see, hear and experience every prospect as a great candidate? How do you do this? One way is to make a great first impression; it’s the moment where the Law of Expectation has the greatest impact on your performance. You communicate your expectations by your word choices, voice inflection and body language. When you expect your prospects to buy, all your actions will lead them in the right direction.

Before each sales meeting, try asking yourself, “How do I expect this sales process to go?” If your other-than-conscious mind feeds back a negative response, mentally rehearse the end result you want in full color with sound and feeling. You may want to imagine the prospect signing an order form or handing you a check. Now picture yourself smiling and shaking hands with your new customer. Know that you’ve just done a great service. When you spend time rehearsing success, you’ll be comfortable with it when it happens.

Dr. Patrick Porter is an entrepreneur, award-winning author, and motivational speaker. He grew his “mom & pop” business to international franchise status in two short years. His electrifying keynote speeches and seminars deliver the real life, nuts ‘n bolts concepts he used to take his business venture to astounding heights. He teaches entrepreneurs to think like business leaders. Corporate executives and sales professionals learn how to think like entrepreneurs. For additional information about Patrick’s presentations, books, and learning materials, call AVA Marketing Group at 757-321-6213 or go to http://www.PatrickKPorter.com.

Real Estate Agents: Promote Those ‘Exclusive Properties’ at Light Speed With Personalised Web Pages

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

Have you ever wanted to build your own web pages to promote those special properties?

You know the sort of thing – the properties that will appeal primarily to a select group of your clients.

Maybe they’re high value. Perhaps they are in a particularly sought after area that doesn’t come on the market too often. Or maybe they are a little quirky but sure to appeal to a specific set of people.

You probably already have a number of potential buyers. What you need to do is get the details in front of them right away.

Most real estate agents stick with what they know and simply print up the details and send them around by post.

There’s nothing wrong with that of course.

It’s just that in this modern world your customers increasingly expect instant service. More active estate agents rely on the telephone. You get on the phone and call all the people on your list. It takes time. And for this sort of property time equals money.

Get The Details in Your Prospects Hands in Minutes

The perfect way to get the information into your customers hands is via the web. Create high quality professional web pages containing the property descriptions, plans and photographs. All you need to do then is to send an email to your prospect list with a link to those pages.

Until now this approach has been too slow and expensive. Instructing a web designer costs thousands. Getting the information to them and proof reading the delivered web sites takes too long – you need results now.

And now there is a way you can do it for yourself in minutes. No web development skill is needed. If you can use a Word Processor and cut and paste in windows you can have high quality pages up in a moment.

XSitePro is a revolution in rapid web development tools. As easy to use as a Word Processor it nevertheless has an amazing range of features that make it suitable to an incredible range of web applications. For now I only interested in showing you how you could use XSitePro to improve the profits from your real estate business.

From Property Details to Professional Web Site in 20 Minutes

It’s true. It really is possible to take the details of a property and to produce professional looking web pages in less than 20 minutes. It will take a little longer the first time but after that you will start to fly.

The steps that follow assume 2 things:

  • You already have a web site for which you have administration rights
  • You already have the property particulars, plans and photographs in a word processor document.

Right, with those provisos in mind, here’s what you have to do:

  1. Create a sub domain on you main site. e.g. If your main site is called www.maxproperties.com you would create a sub domain called something like barrington-manor.maxproperties.com 2 min
  2. Open up XSitePro 1 min
  3. Create a new project, web site, set-up publishing details, create main page 8 min
  4. Paste the details from your word processor into the new page 1 min
  5. Preview the page and make any changes 5 min
  6. Publish the page 1 min

  7. Create an email to your prospects 2 min
  8. Send the email 0 min

There you go – 20 minutes from getting the typed details in your office you have constructed detailed, professional web pages. You have notified your prospects that a new property that might meet their needs. They have instant access to all the details. All you have to do now is wait for their calls.

If you have created your whole web site using XSitePro things are even easier. You simply start at step 4 – pasting the property details into a new web page. It’ll take you less than 10 minutes to get details out to your prospects.

Cross Promote Other, Related Properties

Unlike traditional mailing of property details, web sites provide a golden opportunity to promote your other properties. e.g. Put some links on the barringtonmanor.maxproperties.com to other exclusive properties, mention special offers, recent reductions, investment opportunities… The possibilities are only limited by your imagination.

XSitePro is stunningly versatile web development tool. If you want to wow your customers you should check out XSitePro now.

Keith Longmire - EzineArticles Expert Author

Keith Longmire specialises in helping small businesses achieve rapid sustainable growth through marketing online. He has documented his own experience in using XsitePro on The XsitePro Experience at http://www.xsitepro.jkl.co.uk.
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