Clammy hands?  Blank mind?  Have you become an expert at creative avoidance?  No one actually looks forward to cold calling, yet it’s a necessity for successful selling. Happily, there are some simple cold calling techniques you can use to become much more comfortable, move past your fear and enjoy the positive results you want. These [...]

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 is Better than Sex, I will take you through the essentials of successful selling with a humorous twist; illustrating that business [...]

In your approach you have won the prospect’s interest. You have put them in the mental position where they are ready to purchase if you prove up your claims. And you can prove up these claims because you made them, knowing in advance that they were merely a preface to showing your proposition. What is [...]

The sale can be divided into five classes, according to simplicity. Class 1. The simplest business sale is one in which the customer is so anxious to buy at a specified price that he comes to the salesperson and voluntarily offers her the proper amount of money for the products. As an illustration, take the [...]

Developing meaningful relationships is more than simply being friendly.  A true business relationship requires you to know and understand a customer’s visions, desires and fears. Action Step Take the time to understand your client’s business and its processes. Listen to your client as he discusses his goals and his dream to take his business to [...]

Remember that the person who asks questions at the meeting is the one who controls the conversation. We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Ask the question, and then shut up and listen to what your prospect is saying to you. Action Step You [...]

Today I am honored to have a guest blogger on my blog, his name is Neil Jain and he empowers people to make confident financial decisions. Here is his article: In keeping with Alen’s current theme about Trigger Events, I can confirm that in my business identifying trigger events has been a key aspect of [...]

I am sure you have heard about salespeople earning $200-300k, a million or even more. Do you think this sales person is better than you are? They are not much different from you; they are not geniuses or impeccable experts in their field. They probably don’t know much more about their products or service than [...]

In my previous article I was talking how If you live by price – you will die by price. Let’s talk further about how to close the deal without discounting. If you base your offer on your price only, there is a good chance that someone will have lower price than you, or you can [...]

A sale is often completed in business without any inspection of the actual products by the purchaser; as when the sales person shows a picture of it with a catalog number. The “goods” are to be delivered later. However, the selling process is finished; though only the mind’s eye of the buyer has seen what [...]