A Blog (short for web log) provides commentary or news on a particular subject such as food, politics, or local news. A blog can be private, as in most cases, or it can be for business purposes. Blogs, either used internally to enhance the communication and culture in a corporation or externally for marketing, branding or PR purposes are called corporate blogs. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.
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Imagine that you will be having a baby in two weeks. While turning around in your home, what will you see? You are missing the crib, blankets, diapers and everything else that is needed for the new addition to your family. Won’t you need everything right away? You have an immediate need and must take care of it. This is a trigger event.
If we transfer this to a business environment, you will understand what trigger events means for any existing business. A trigger is a need to buy, an event …

Your mission as a sales person should be to find companies that have immediate wants and needs. This means that something happened or is happening to them – a move, a merger, new investors, etc. You have to look for any event that might create the opportunity for you, or better said you are looking for event that can trigger the sales for you.
It could be something internal or inside the company, like a new direction from management, a merger or an acquisition, rapid growth, or maybe a new product …

Many sales are lost because salespeople assume they know what the customer wants. Sales people like to made assumptions of knowledge about what the buyer wants and needs, or sometimes more important why the buyer might be motivated to buy. Using one’s instincts and sixth sense is fine in the equation of success, but it should be only part of your expertise.
Consequently, through unorganized, hit-or-miss methods, his cost of selling is high simply because his methods are not as efficient as they should be.
This does not mean you shouldn’t use …

“When I first read about the wacky book title “Selling Is Better Than Sex”, I could not resist the temptation of arranging my copy. Alen Majer’s latest book is loaded with sales lessons, tips, tactics and golden nuggets of advice. The comparison of Selling with Sex, though, makes the book title weird, bizarre, far-out and one of its own kind, yet it contains extremely interesting and absorbing stuff on Selling. Alen has successfully taught the art and science of selling in a very humorous and hilarious manner.

The book starts with …

Before you begin to sell, you will need to decide who you’re going to sell to. This means finding your Target Market. If you know who you’re selling to, you immediately have the advantage of being focused on a specific market and knowing who and what you need to research.
In your search for a Target Market, try to identify those that have a major problem and who are willing to spend money in order to fix it. Straight away, this gives you the advantage of knowing that your customer has …

You’ve probably heard of my book, “Trigger Events – How to Find Your NEXT Customer.” It’s the book that helps sales people easily differentiate prospects from suspects, gives them a new set of tools to find new customers who are on the market today, and makes them successful by using 21st century resources to close more sales.
You don’t have time to read the book. You want the important information in that book, and you want it now.
Now there’s a new, better way to absorb the secrets of sales success  from …

Today I am sharing with you my Daily Sales Tip #21 titled: “Find companies that have immediate wants and needs.”

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Three main keys of every sale are:

Researching and qualifying your customers
Being in front of them
Being there when they are ready to buy

To start the sales process you need to find out who could be in the market today, and then recognize your selected customer’s wants and needs. Even if your company does not have automated system to generate new leads for you, when you learn more about prospecting, you will be able to find your next customer by your own.
Your mission as a sales person should be to find …

If you want to be a successful sales person and to close the deal, very important part is to be in front of your customers at the exact time when they are on the market for goods or services. You can find companies they are on the market now, or you can put them in the market.
The only thing you can accomplish is to lose a precious time chasing prospects who are not interested for your product, or they are not a fit for your products or services at all.
Many …