10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Increase Sales

March 10th, 2011

1. Use the current economic times to motivate you. There are people who need your products or services. Your products or services will help other businesses generate more leads, save time, consolidate services, or become more efficient. Make it a habit of making sure your prospects know this. Sell the benefit, not the feature.

2. Take things one day at a time – Focus on today. As the band Fleetwood Mac said, “Yesterdays Gone”. There is nothing that can be changed. Use it as a rudder but deal with today, now.

3. Focus on opportunity, not fear, worry, or panic. We are living in an opportune time to help individuals and businesses become streamlined, healthy, more productive. Focus on that and your fear, worry, or panic will go out the door.

4. Optimize your business. Tasks that can be done by others that cost less than your time should be outsourced. Not everything needs to go oversees or anything. Use fiverr.com or hire your high school or college students.

5. Expand your comfort zone. Flex your braveness. There really is nothing to fear. The worse thing anyone can do is say no.

6. Track your results daily. Set daily goals. Maybe even hourly. Track them.

7. Plan you day on paper before the day starts. Know what you are going to do and when. Then do them.

8. Complete your scripts. Know what you are going to say for each situation. People are predictable. Use it to your advantage.

9. Focus on revenue producing activities. For most of us that is going to be prospecting. That should be 80% of what you do.

10. Play at a level 7+ each day. Know what you are going to do, don’t be timid, act like Donald Trump and take no hostages.

Your business will love you for it.

Does Your Mummy Have Cancer?

October 15th, 2010

An interesting story from Mail Online about the timing of the origins of ‘Cancer’. I do think that this is a bit of a stretch to arrive with this conclusion.

Nonetheless, I do have to feel that there is some truth to it. You become what you eat. Garbage in, garbage you’ll become.

Unfortunately, the garbage is disguised as bleached flour in our bread, perfect looking tomatoes that are sprayed with insecticides and preservatives as well as losing their nutritional value, and juices that claim to have antioxidant ingredients in them in such a minuscule quantity, you’d have to drink 200 a day to gain any benefit.

Cancer is a man-made disease fuelled by the excesses of modern life, a study of ancient remains has found.

Tumours were rare until recent times when pollution and poor diet became issues, the review of mummies, fossils and classical literature found.

A greater understanding of its origins could lead to treatments for the disease, which claims more than 150,000 lives a year in the UK.

Read the story.

Link Wheels

August 23rd, 2010

Anyone that knows anything about search engine optimisation understands that link wheels are a big part of this and can have a large impact on your website and any future business that you could possibly do. When first explained to a person, link wheels can sound very confusing and seem too overwhelming to understand. When a person does not fully understand something, there is little chance that they will ever actually do it/get it done. However, when explained in the correct manner and in a way that anyone can understand, you will soon realise that link wheels are relatively easy to learn about and therefore, relatively easy to accomplish yourself for your own website. Link wheels really can change the way in which clients are attracted to your business. You literally will have links all over the web pointing directly to your website, generating more real traffic and therefore, in the long term, making more of those sales!

As well as providing links and therefore new clients, the link wheels are also a great way to boost your rankings on the search engines like Google. As part of a link wheel package, if you decide to hire someone to do this job for you, is article writing. If you are uploading regular unique content to your website everyday with your keywords of choice, the search engines will soon pick up on this and begin to notice and “like” your site a lot more. Another major aspect of the link wheels are the video creation and submissions that are regularly part of the package price. A short video will be created based around your website and its products and then submitted to certain directories in order to build up your links. When all of these links are live online, you will soon start to see the benefit of link wheels, even if you have been sceptical up until now!

Using Emotion To Draw People In

May 5th, 2010

Emotional or Rational
People whether they admit it or not are not rational beings, especially when it comes to buying things and following things of interest. They are led with emotion. I know.. I know.. you guys think you are strong and would not fall for the emotion. But you too are led by emotion. As an example, picture yourself driving down the road in your own classic midnight blue convertible, top down, fancy blue-rays on, lumbering down a remote hi-way, on a sunny day. Now most guys would think this is cool. I know I would. So let’s examine what buying decision went into purchasing that vehicle? Was it because you could get fresh air? Air conditioning works great in my estimation. Was it because it was fast? Last I looked you can’t drive faster than 65 MPH in most places. Was it because you consider the older vehicles to be more dependable? Well today’s cars are much more dependable. The real reason… It’s because it looks cool! It’s because you can use is to attract the opposite sex and maybe get lucky! It’s because you like the rush of being pushed back into your seat when you accelerate. It’s because you like the idea of having everyone envious of you. It’s because you like to have people think your rich. It’s because you want people to think that the vehicle is just simply an extension of your personality, sleek, exotic, sporty, open, attractive, and sexy. So don’t tell me you’re not emotional. These are far from rational.