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		<title>Customers Are Available for Everyone, at Any Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alen Majer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re a sales genius. They love you; they trust you; and some of them keep on coming back for more. However, you can very suddenly go from Hero to Zero if you don’t keep your sales figures up to scratch. As a sales genius, you’ll be working hard to have deals lined up for weeks [...]<p><a href="http://www.alenmajer.com/2010/02/customers-are-available-for-everyone-at-any-time/">Customers Are Available for Everyone, at Any Time</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.alenmajer.com">The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1053" style="margin: 5px;" title="customer300" src="http://www.alenmajer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/customer300-150x150.jpg" alt="customer300" width="150" height="150" />You’re a sales genius. They love you; they trust you; and some of them keep on coming back for more. However, you can very suddenly go from Hero to Zero if you don’t keep your sales figures up to scratch. As a sales genius, you’ll be working hard to have deals lined up for weeks in advance so that you’re not enslaved by what has been referred to as “the Curse of a Sales Job”.</p>
<p>Working month to month, just treading water in the hopes of staying afloat, does not make you a super-sales-hero. You need to plan ahead – take the long-term view and line up those deals to ensure you maintain your status. This is what makes you great – and able to achieve your fullest potential. Again, this is hard work and dedication – but it is fuelled by your passion for selling and your dream to achieve all that you can.</p>
<p>You must realize that customers are available for everyone, at any time and at any age. Not so when it comes to sex, right? No – even with a reputation as a serial womanizer, you can go for weeks or even months at a time without having a beautiful woman to accompany you to social gatherings. That’s the quickest way to dissolve your reputation! But the beauty of sales is that there will always be someone who needs something that you’ve got – you just need to find them and approach the sale in an appropriate way, depending on their needs.</p>
<p>And, with selling, buying leads is also a legitimate way to generate sales – it’s not against the law, either. So when you find that you’re scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of customers and your pipeline is running dry, you can absolutely purchase a list of leads. However, when your sex life is becoming somewhat dull, or non-existent, paying for a “lead” is not exactly the way you want to go (nor is it legal – in most countries, anyway).</p>
<p>Cruising the internet in search of customers is perfectly acceptable too. You won’t find yourself in any moral or ethical dilemma when paying for leads. And you won’t get fired for typing “selling techniques” into a search engine at work. But wait and see what happens when you’re caught surfing the net for tips on “how to please&#8230;”</p>
<p>With all the technology that we have available to us today, the act of “cold-calling” is just about becoming a thing of the past. You can access so much information about a client before you even get to the first meeting. As a result, you will be better prepared than if you had just picked up the phone and dialed a random number in the hopes of charming yourself into another sale. With as much “pre-knowledge” of the customer as possible, you’re equipped to ask all of the right questions, and you’re able to listen to the client’s needs with a greater understanding.</p>
<p>If you’ve carried out your research thoroughly, half of the work is done. It can no longer be termed a “cold call” when you’re already warming up to the client and the operations of his business. Rather, you have the upper hand as you begin the call, knowing more about your client than he does about you. This means that you’re better prepared to approach him in an effective manner and better prepared to address the type of business that he has and the problems he might be encountering.</p>
<p>And besides, you don’t have to dial a “900” number to sell over the phone. If you want customers from faraway places, it’s not that difficult and not that expensive either. You just pick up the phone, send an e-mail, and use any modern technology that you have on hand. But try finding your dream woman from some faraway exotic place – you’ll pay a fortune in travelling costs and accommodation, and that’s before you’ve even taken her out to dinner.</p>
<p>Yet again we can prove that selling is better than sex – and far less risky too. Finding new customers won’t get you into trouble either. You can have as many customers as you want, and as many as you can handle!</p>
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<p>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. If you want to learn how to transfer your energy into sales enthusiasm to improve your career and life, get my book <em>“Selling Is Better Than Sex”</em> today!</p>
<p>This book will provide you with more than 200 reasons why selling is even better than sex, and what you can do about it in order to improve your career and your life. This is not just another sales book – this is a revelation!</p>
<p><a title="Selling Is Better Than Sex - official website" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.sellingisbetter.com');" href="http://www.sellingisbetter.com/" target="_blank">www.SellingIsBetter.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.alenmajer.com/2010/02/customers-are-available-for-everyone-at-any-time/">Customers Are Available for Everyone, at Any Time</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.alenmajer.com">The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer</a></p>
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		<title>You Always Know How Good You Are</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alen Majer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In sales you’ll always know where you stand. No longer do you have to torment yourself with the question of your performance. At the end of the day, your sales figures will be the yardstick that indicates how well you’ve done in selling. You’ll always know how your performance was for that day, for each [...]<p><a href="http://www.alenmajer.com/2010/01/you-always-know-how-good-you-are/">You Always Know How Good You Are</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.alenmajer.com">The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-974" style="margin: 5px;" title="trophysmall" src="http://www.alenmajer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/trophysmall-150x150.jpg" alt="trophysmall" width="150" height="150" />In sales you’ll always know where you stand. No longer do you have to torment yourself with the question of your performance. At the end of the day, your sales figures will be the yardstick that indicates how well you’ve done in selling. You’ll always know how your performance was for that day, for each and every customer. The proof is in the purchase of the product that you’re selling.</p>
<p>No-one can fake a purchase or lie to you about how great your pitch was. Customers aren’t concerned with stroking your ego just to pacify you so that they can make a quick escape. If you’re great at what you do, they buy your product. It’s as simple as that. And if you’ve really impressed them, they’ll keep coming back for more. And they’ll tell their family and friends about you and refer them to you for your excellent service.</p>
<p>That’s essentially what they talk about – how great you are at performing in the sales arena. They don’t care what kind of physical shape you’re in either. They don’t sit around and chat about your physique or snigger about your six-pack that’s been left abandoned for years. In fact, most of the best sales guys are usually out of shape. You don’t have to concern yourself with sweating it out at the gym.</p>
<p>As a successful sales guru, you’ve got the customers coming in already, in droves. Because you don’t have to be concerned about your fitness in order to be a brilliant salesperson, you don’t have to feel embarrassed by selling with the lights on! In fact, if you turned the lights off, most of your clients might start feeling a little concerned about their own safety and well being. Leave the lights on; forget about the gym; in sales you can be a success regardless of what shape you’re in.</p>
<p>As well, what makes all of this a lot easier is that a new sales job comes with an instruction manual – complete with graphs and pictures and everything that you might need to come to grips with the basics. Imagine how easy some things in life would be if everything came with a manual? Sure, some of us are blessed with a natural charm and an outgoing and vivacious personality (among other things), but there are still things to learn.</p>
<p>There aren’t too many of us that can be really successful without further enhancing our education. It’s not like a few tips from your Dad are all that you need to make a good go of it. No – we start with the manual and we progress from there to more extensive, specialized courses in skill and technique. And then it still takes practice to perfect the technique. At least, with selling, you don’t earn yourself a reputation for being promiscuous when you expose your sales pitch to a wide variety of customers.</p>
<p>Let’s face the facts here – as a salesperson you don’t have to pussy-foot around your clients and question them in subtle, tactful ways to find out if you were any good.<strong> If you were good, they bought your product.</strong> Your massive sales figures at the end of each day will show the world what a sensation you are, a market leader in your field. You have the magic touch – you know it and you can prove it!</p>
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<p>If you want to learn how to transfer the sex energy into sales enthusiasm to improve your career and life, and learn about other 200 reasons why selling is even better than sex, get my book <em>“Selling Is Better Than Sex”</em> today! <a title="Selling Is Better Than Sex - official website" onclick="javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('/outbound/article/http://www.sellingisbetter.com');" href="http://www.sellingisbetter.com/" target="_blank">www.SellingIsBetter.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.alenmajer.com/2010/01/you-always-know-how-good-you-are/">You Always Know How Good You Are</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.alenmajer.com">The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer</a></p>
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		<title>First review of the book: Selling Is Better Than Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alen Majer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Selling Is Better Than Sex&#8221; &#8211; Alen Majer ISBN: 9780978466855 Reviewed By Dominique Sessons Official Apex Reviews Rating: &#8220;Over the years, sex has been compared to many different things &#8211; but the act of selling isn’t one that readily comes to mind. Throughout the pages of Selling Is Better Than Sex, though, author Alen Majer [...]<p><a href="http://www.alenmajer.com/2009/11/first-review-of-the-book-selling-is-better-than-sex/">First review of the book: Selling Is Better Than Sex</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.alenmajer.com">The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;Selling Is Better Than Sex&#8221; &#8211; Alen Majer<br />
ISBN: 9780978466855<br />
Reviewed By Dominique Sessons</strong></p>
<p><strong>Official Apex Reviews Rating:</strong> <img src="http://www.urbanechoes.net/images/5Stars.bmp" border="0" alt="" /></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>&#8220;Over the years, sex has been compared to many different things &#8211; but the act of selling isn’t one that readily comes to mind. Throughout the pages of Selling Is Better Than Sex, though, author Alen Majer provides the reader with ample convincing parallels between the art of lovemaking and the act of closing a deal.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Essentially, Majer emphasizes that the success or failure of each practice is directly related to the level of energy that you contribute to them; in other words, the greater the enthusiasm, the more “fruitful” the experience will be. Furthermore, passion is key in either case: loving what you do while you do it ensures that you’ll reap greater rewards once the deed is done.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>Naturally, one may suspect that Majer’s topic of choice would open the door to raunchy, lewd references or toilet humor, but he presents his case in quite the compelling &#8211; and tasteful &#8211; fashion, in so doing providing the reader with a <strong>refreshing, original take</strong> on how to achieve greater success in the business world.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><em>With a plethora of insightful advice and practical examples, Selling Is Better Than Sex is a <strong>must-read for businessmen and women worldwide.</strong> A pleasantly enjoyable literary treat.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>You can read the whole review <a title="Apex Reviews: Selling Is Better Than Sex" href="http://morganmandelbooks.ning.com/group/bookreviewers/forum/topics/review-selling-is-better-than" target="_blank">here.</a></p>
<p>About the book &#8220;Selling Is Better Than Sex&#8221;:</p>
<p>This book will provide you with more than 200 reasons why selling is even better than sex, and what you can do about it in order to improve your career and your life. This is not just another sales book – this is a revelation!</p>
<p>Read more: <a title="Selling Is Better Than Sex - official website" href="http://sellingisbetter.com/" target="_blank">SellingIsBetter.com</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.alenmajer.com/2009/11/first-review-of-the-book-selling-is-better-than-sex/">First review of the book: Selling Is Better Than Sex</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.alenmajer.com">The Science and Art of Selling by Alen Mayer</a></p>
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