My first book Trigger Events is now available on Kindle – get your copy today! (Earlier this week my latest book Selling IS Better Than Sex became available on Kindle too – get your copy today!) Did you know that 40% of sales forces will miss their quotas this year; four out of ten salespersons [...]

My latest book Selling IS Better Than Sex is now available on Kindle – get your copy today for only $8.99! The secret of being successful in selling is the ability to transmit your energy and your enthusiasm about your product or service. If you fail to do that, you will not sell. In Selling [...]

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 [...]

Your persistence may get you that first client meeting, but the ideas you propose about how to improve their revenue or business situation should be your strongest selling points. Once you have a foot in the door, use the opportunity to the maximum. The focus should be on the benefits and value to be derived [...]

Business can be fun and should be fun. Love what you do and do what you love. It’s about passion…it’s about creating the pathway for your own success and doing it with enthusiasm and zeal. In my previous post I gave you 10 reasons why why I believe selling is even better than sex. Here [...]

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 and trigger the sales for you. Opportunities are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]